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Prayer for the Dead – Insights from the Maronite Church

February 19, 2020 by Fr. Ben Cameron Leave a Comment

In the Western Church, our special day of prayer for the deceased is All Souls Day, which occurs every year on November 2nd, the day following All Saints Day. In the Maronite Rite of the Catholic Church (which is part of the ancient Rite from Antioch, where “the disciples were first called Christians”), the last […]

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Significance of Our Lady of Guadalupe

December 11, 2019 by Fr. Ben Cameron 1 Comment

The Aztec Empire was one of the bloodiest and most diabolical societies of the ancient world. The two main Aztec “gods” were “Lord of the Dark” and “Hummingbird Wizard,” and both of them demanded human sacrifice — and on a massive scale. In one festival in the year 1487 (as recorded by Aztec historians), over […]

Filed Under: Spiritual Teaching Tagged With: Blessed Virgin, Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe

Grief to Grace

October 1, 2019 by Fr. Ben Cameron Leave a Comment

Early in September, I traveled to Newark, New Jersey, to participate in a “Grief to Grace” retreat. This retreat was written by Dr. Theresa Burke, the founder of Rachel’s Vineyard retreats for healing the wounds of abortion, but Grief to Grace has a different focus — healing the wounds of sexual abuse. I became interested […]

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Corpus Christi Sunday

June 18, 2019 by Fr. Ben Cameron Leave a Comment

This Sunday, we celebrate the great feast of “Corpus Christi,” now called the “Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ.”  When this feast was begun, in the 13th century, it was partially begun as a rebuke to the heresy of Berengarius, who was the first person in the history of Christianity to deny the […]

Filed Under: Spiritual Teaching Tagged With: Holy Eucharist, Real Presence

Making a Holy Lent – Part 3

March 6, 2019 by Fr. Ben Cameron Leave a Comment

The third element of making a holy Lent is Almsgiving. “Alms” is the traditional term for money or material aid given to a poor person; we see people in the Gospels and Acts begging for alms (St. Peter said to one such person:  “silver and gold, I have none, but what I do have, I […]

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Making a Holy Lent — Part 2

February 25, 2019 by Fr. Ben Cameron Leave a Comment

Fasting:  Second Key to a Holy Lent What is fasting?  Christian fasting is essentially self-denial — but not for the sake of health, or out of some sense that food or drink is evil.  It is self-denial for the Love of Jesus Christ. Sometimes, I meet people who plan to give up something sinful for […]

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Making a Holy Lent — Part 1

February 25, 2019 by Fr. Ben Cameron Leave a Comment

Prayer:  The First Means of Repentance and Key to a good Lent When St. John Chrysostom (d. 407 AD) preached in Antioch (Syria) about repentance, he recommended several practices which have their origin in the Old Testament, and have been used by Christians for the last 2,000 years.  These practices are important for our entire […]

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Conversion of St. Paul

January 25, 2019 by Fr. Ben Cameron Leave a Comment

Who would have ever expected that the man who supervised the murder of St. Stephen, the first martyrdom of a Christian, would have ever become a Christian himself?  Yet one day, on the road to Damascus on a mission of persecution, Saul of Tarsus had a vision and heard a voice:  “Saul, Saul, why are […]

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“Rejoice in the Lord always!” Celebrating Gaudete Sunday

December 13, 2018 by Fr. Ben Cameron Leave a Comment

The holy season of Advent is a time of preparation and waiting — preparation for the coming of Christ our Savior, and waiting with anticipation the joy of His coming.  We prepare our hearts for three comings of our Savior: His first coming as a little child — we prepare to celebrate Christmas, not as […]

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Mary at the Foot of the Cross

September 20, 2018 by Fr. Ben Cameron Leave a Comment

On September 15th, the Catholic Church honored Mary as “Our Lady of Sorrows.”  When we are suffering, and especially when we are grieving the death of a loved one, such as the loss of an unborn child through abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth, we can join our sorrows with those of Mary at the foot of […]

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Can God forgive our gravest sins?

Sometimes people ask if God can really forgive our most grievous sins — He not only can, but He actually does, if we ask for forgiveness. In this video, I share some stories of people who were notorious sinners — some would say “monsters” — who experienced the grace of forgiveness from the Infinite Mercy […]

One Soul at a Time

Over the past year, we have seen a several signs of hope regarding the sanctity of every human life, and suffered a few setbacks as well. On the positive side, the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the infamous Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey decisions, rejecting the notion that there is a federal […]

November – Month of the Poor Souls

One of the spiritual works of mercy is to “pray for the living and the dead.” We usually remember that we should pray for the living, because they are around us, seen by us, and their needs are often apparent to our eyes. But do we remember to pray for the dead, for the souls […]

Our Lady, Terror of Demons

We are in a war, a spiritual war. The Christian life is a constant war against the world, the flesh, and the devil. But what does that mean? We are at war with “the world” in its fallen state, in which the world around us, fallen and prone-to-evil human society, attempts to lead us away […]

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