Catholicity - Apologetics For Our Time

From Today's Gospel: At the sight of the crowds, Jesus’ heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” (Matt 9:36-38). Catechism of the Catholic Church , 863: The whole Church is apostolic   (1) , in that she remains, through the successors of St. Peter and the other apostles, in communion of faith and life with her origin and in that she is "sent out" into the whole world. All members of the Church share in this mission, though in various ways. "The Christian vocation is, of its nature, a vocation to the apostolate as well." Indeed, we call an apostolate "every activity of the Mystical Body" that aims "to spread the Kingdom of Christ over all the earth." Commentary on the Sunday Mass Readings for the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary ...

  A lot of people claim to be “Bible only” – if its not in the Bible, they wont accept it. And that may sound good, but the Bible never tells anyone to do that. In fact, it never says it is the one and only thing one has to deepen faith – that idea was concocted during the breech from The Church during reformation. It simply took off from there, as a rally cry. So let me give you just one an example of a non-Bible writing that literally defines what YOU believe today. Let it be an example of how one can see outside the Bible, and deepen ones faith while keeping the Bible as well. "Light from Light, True God from True God." Have you heard this? Have you said it? Did you know this comes from the Nicene Creed (325 AD)? And whether you say it or not – it has formed what you believe. When you hear those words, they sound like poetry. And in a sense, they are. The early Church wrote with beauty as well as precision. But you must understand something about those phrases that m...

     Today, June 6, the Church Celebrates the memorial of  St. Barnabas, Apostle and teaches The Gospel of Reconciliation Readings of the Day First Reading: Acts 11:21-26; 13:1-3 “The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord. The news reached the ears of the Church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and exhorted everyone to remain faithful to the Lord with a firm heart, because he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.” (Acts 11:21-24) "Barnabas set out for Tarsus in search of Saul, and when he found him, he took him to Antioch. They met with the Church for a whole year and taught many people. It was in Antioch that, for the first time, the disciples received the name of Christians.” (Acts 11:25-26) “While they were celebrating the worship of the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, ‘Separ...

The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), June 7, 2026 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.      Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ — Corpus Christi .      In the readings today, we hear how God fed His people in the desert. Through Moses, the Lord reminded Israel: “ Remember the journey the Lord your God led you on for forty years in the desert… He fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your ancestors, to teach you that not by bread alone does one live, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.”      God sustained His people physically and spiritually. In the desert, He gave them manna. But that manna was only a preparation for something greater.      In the Gospel of Saint John, Jesus Himself declares  clearly what Corpus Cristi is all about. He does not say this in symbolic terms; He isn't vague. ...

  "While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, 'Take it; this is my body.' Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, 'This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many.'" The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ is observed on the Thursday following on the Solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity. Where the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ is not observed as a Holy Day of obligation on Thursday, it is assigned to the Sunday after Trinity Sunday, which is then considered its proper day in the calendar. The Mass includes an option of singing or reciting the Sequence Laud, O Zion or Lauda Sion before the Alleluia. This sequence is optional. There are only two other feasts (Easter and Pentecost) with Sequences. This feast is both a doctrinal and cultic response to heretical teaching on the mystery of the real presence of Christ in t...

  FROM COVENANT THEOLOGY TO LITERALISM: HOW A CHANGE IN INTERPRETATION RESHAPED CHRISTIANITY INTRODUCTION Intro One of the most overlooked questions in Christian theology is not what Christians believe, but how they read Scripture. The earliest Christians inherited from Judaism a covenantal worldview. They understood God’s actions throughout history as a unified plan unfolding through covenants, priesthood, sacrifice, temple worship, sacred authority, and typological fulfillment. The Old Testament was not viewed as a collection of disconnected texts but as a covenant story culminating in Jesus Christ. For the first centuries of Christianity, Scripture was interpreted within this covenantal framework. The Church Fathers did not merely ask what a verse meant in isolation. They asked how each text fit within God’s covenantal plan and how Christ fulfilled what came before Him. The Protestant Reformation introduced many important theological debates, but one of its most significant effe...