Comments on: My Grace is Sufficient for You https://www.acatholic.org/my-grace-is-sufficient-for-you/ DAILY MASS READINGS AND REFLECTIONS @ ACATHOLIC.ORG Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:36:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Laura Kazlas https://www.acatholic.org/my-grace-is-sufficient-for-you/#comment-11915 Sun, 17 Jun 2018 21:32:02 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=8040#comment-11915 In reply to Karen Kiser.

Yes, go to the DISMAS National Catholic Ministry website that is located in Milwaukee. Get in touch with Ron Zelier, the executive Director. He organizes an annual National Catholic prison conference and can point you in the right direction.

]]> By: Karen Kiser https://www.acatholic.org/my-grace-is-sufficient-for-you/#comment-11900 Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:36:49 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=8040#comment-11900 Hi I work in a county jail where I see a great need for inmates to receive Holy Communion and to have access to the sacraments. I am a mental health therapist and a devoted Catholic. I believe Jesus put me right smack in the middle of the jail to see the suffering there, to pray for the inmates and to console them when I can. I came across you rather accidentally, when I was seeking to understand more the meaning of “My Grace is sufficient for you”. I feel that there is more for me to do at the jail beyond my role as a therapist there. I just thought I’d share that with you. If you know of any way I could be helpful in bringing the sacraments into the Wisconsin prison system please let me know. Thank you so much. God Bless You.

]]> By: Laura Kazlas https://www.acatholic.org/my-grace-is-sufficient-for-you/#comment-1654 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 05:17:19 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=8040#comment-1654 In reply to jim sadler.

You have a very good point there. When soldiers become Christians, it IS a great deal more difficult to kill, steal and sexually assault others. I was a soldier in the US Army for 13 years and after I grew more in my faith, I began to have doubts about the morality of killing other human beings too. War is sometimes justified, but only to prevent a greater evil.

Jesus said he did not come for peace but division, though. And when Mary and Joseph presented baby Jesus in the temple, Simeon foretold that Jesus would become a sign that would be contradicted. We humans like to think we are in control of things, but I think that God already knows our human nature, and how we are likely to respond to the events in our lives.

]]> By: jim sadler https://www.acatholic.org/my-grace-is-sufficient-for-you/#comment-1653 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 04:21:15 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=8040#comment-1653 Poverty is an integral part of Christianity that many churches do not want to confront. Obviously if people who heard Christ speak simply did as He asked without putting spin on it the Roman Empire would have been destroyed. As Christ was a Jew and the Roman Empire had the Jews under their foot the oppression of the people would be eliminated simply by rendering to Caesar all that is Caesar’s. In other words Christ was instructing the people to give all of their money to Caesar. Chaos would have resulted. With a longer view the various earthly kingdoms would perish if people took ALL THAT THEY HAD and gave it to the poor. What better way to usher in the Kingdom of God than to collapse all of the various kingdoms around the world.
In more ways than one Christ was also the greatest revolutionary that ever lived. And we can see why. Look what the world did to Christ as well as many others. And keep in mind that it was pagans that actually did the crucifying and pagans that cheered as early Christians were fed to lions, tortured and burned. Ultimately it was Christ’s teachings that destroyed the Roman Empire. It is hard to get soldiers to rape, loot and murder for pay when they become Christians.

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