Everything You Need to Know About St. Matthew (and His Gospel) 

I would like to see them too 😄

Please, follow your heart. The Church is a gift God left us on earth, to be better followers of His Son. Yes, sinners (like me) are in the Church, But we are here for the same reason you would be here -- to become less of a sinner, and more of a saint. I'm glad to pray for you. (Someone prayed for me.)

He was a huge influence on me to join. His knowledge and conviction really struck my heart and mind. 😊 I’ll pray for you.

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@@susand3668you can pray for me, I am really looking into the Catholic faith

Thanks for sharing! We love "The Word of the Lord" so much too!

You're very welcome!

same story here. I _LOVE_ this book!

Best professors from Steubenville. Thank you Dr Bergsma.

Letters from Home is still available as a daily audio podcast but, yeah, I miss the videos and being able to share them on social media. I also miss the segments by some of the previous hosts including Rob Corzine and Curtis Mitch. It would be nice to see (or hear) them sub occasionally.

Listen to Letters from Home everyday right here!: saintpaulcenter.libsyn.com/ And Vince, you can share the podcasts from this page as well!

I agree completely. All world leaders should carefully read this book and consider its message. Also, all christians should prayerfully read this book and take every last word of it seriously. If this were to happen it could not help but effect change. So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Isa55

I'm so glad! Helping seminarians is one of biggest priorities. May God continue to bless you and your vocation!

Wow, thank you!

Please do! We may have something for you coming very soon!

Suggest you watch Bishop Robert Barons "Was Vatican 2 a failure?" God Bless.

Really?? Because I've given all my time since b4 Lockdown 'til now trying to find valid arguments that truly stood up to scrutiny that anything like that might possibly be so. I admit Lockdown made me a paranoid enough to be open to what look like bizarre challenges to the validity of the Church hierarchy although I wasn't SO stupid not to know that the weight of argument HAS to be incredibly strong, factual (not interpretive) & not subjective. As it turns out I never found any "arguments " that made it necessary to apply these stricter needs before deciding. I began thinking these people are all sincere but misguided but now I find it very hard to believe that the clerics, in particular, who put out the arguments can actually believe the paper thin & spurious apologetics & pseudo theology they push. IF they've convinced themselves I think there's something seriously wrong ,not just mistaken interpretation.

Here are some scriptures which should help understanding: Prov28:22 He that hasteth to be rich hath **an evil eye,** and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. Deut15 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth. Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and **thine eye be evil** against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee. Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land. Mat20 > But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? **Is thine eye evil,** because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. Mat6:22 > (context) Lay not up for yourselves **treasures** upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if **thine eye be evil,** thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and **mammon.**

Am grateful for the Teachers who consider ALL his students.

@@ralphbinney5456 Yes Ralph agreed. And the universal meaning always comes from the local, particular one. That's incarnational, surely?

Yes as long as you know your not the only one in the universe.

@@CatholicDefender-bp7my Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled **πληρόω** with the odour of the ointment. John12 Same Greek word. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil **πληρόω.** For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Mat5 > Filled full.

@Troll Patrol Book? the Webster Dictionary. I looked spirit means soul, poor in soul -- no, wine or alcohol--poor in spirit cud mean lousy drink. Carrying our cross is the best meaning of poor in spirit that I heard from a priest, am Catholic.

Sad that we've come to the place where many christians think that Christ's Apostles spoke of their own will & personal thoughts when they penned the words of Scripture, and not that they were prompted by the Holy Spirit. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 2 Pet1:21 But to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. Isa66:2

@@CatholicDefender-bp7my You're right! Thanks for the correction.

@@CatholicDefender-bp7my You missed the point entirely! Tax Collecting is not a sin. And Zacchaeus did not cheat anyone, so he was not a sinful cheat in need of healing from cheating. Healing of sinners has nothing to do with Zacchaeus' story.

@@francikeennot to insert myself into this, but I don't think the other commenter missed the point. Zacchæus tells Jesus in Luke19 that he had repaid four-fold those whom he had defrauded (by exacting more tax than what was due). Remember Luke 3, Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto John the Baptist, Master, what shall we do? And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. In other words, Zacchæus in Luke 19 affirms that as a publican he had quit doing that and had "brought forth fruit meet for repentance." Whether tax collecting is a sin or not isn't the issue. We are told that Zacchæus repented from the sin of overcharging tax.