Watching you from Paros, Greece! Here for my daughter’s wedding in 2 days. Thank you Fr. Burke for all that you do! Please pray for my family’s health and safety as 100 people travel for this wedding. God bless you and praise Jesus ❤️🙏✝️
Beautifully explained. Helps us to look deeper into our hearts and minds… to search and get to the bottom of what causes us to sin. It’s a good way of preparing for confession as well. Thank you Fr Burke
Rev. Fr. Burke, Your explanation of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist in context to the Deadly Sins is really remarkable. I would say your thinking is the Gift of the Holy Spirit. God Bless You Fr. Burke. Please pray for me.
Fr. Burke - what a wonderful, edifying and useful commentary on the passion of John the Baptist. I am currently in a time in my faith walk with Jesus - of surrender and trust at a deeper level. Your words are a gentle but clear encouragement to examine myself for those things that don't belong in my life and to "root them out" by God's grace and my intentionality.
St. John the Baptist, pray for us.🙏 Greed, Envy, Anger, Lust, Pride, Gluttony and Sloth, the Seven Deadly Sins. One sin leads to another. Over the ages, the human being. As you said Fr. Burke; “Sin always leads to misery. Virtue always leads to joy”. Pray, Pray, Pray. Repent, and turn back to God and His merciful heart of love. We can be blinded by our wounds. Seek out a Spiritual Director, a Pastoral Therapist, the Sacraments, and begin the journey of healing, and a closer union and communion with God. Watch God’s grace overflow in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. One moment, one hour, one day at a time. Jesus, I trust in you. Thank you Fr. Burke. Buen Camino and Ultreya.🙏❤️🔥🕊️🌿👣
Fr James Parker has a beautiful RU-vid channel that prays the Divine Mercy every day at 3 pm and also Rosary and Holy Hour that is so helpful and is a good community.. praying for you 🙏❣🕊🌹✝️
According to Pius Parsch's The Church's Year of Grace, this day commemorates "the second finding of his most venerable head." As he writes: "In the year 362, pagans desecrated the grave and burned his remains. Only a small portion of his relics were able to be saved by monks and sent to St. Athanasius at Alexandria. The head of the saint is venerated at various places." One interesting point is that in some of the Eastern Catholic Rites (e.g., the Melkite Catholic Church) the feast of the Beheading of St John the Baptist is a day of fast and strict abstinence where neither wine nor oil are allowed.
