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+JMJ+ Glory to Jesus Christ! I realize that it's probably been almost a year since I've been on CF, but I just wanted to drop in and say "hello" to everyone and ask a quick question. I go to a public university where Catholic campus ministry is in the process of building some strong programs...

Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone had any idea of what a good Catholic translation of the Bible in Spanish would be. I was thinking of getting one and I've seen a number of Catholic Bibles, but I'm pretty clueless when it comes to different translations. Any help would be greatly...

Hey everyone, I hope you all are having a very blessed Thanksgiving. This summer I am going to be studying abroad in Spain for 8 weeks or so and I was wondering if anyone knew of any good Catholic things to do for a 20-year old in the Sevilla area. It's a huge city, and I know they have quite...

Hey everyone, I have a question about contemplative prayer. I'm supposed to give a talk on Intimacy with Christ at a retreat for college students in a couple months and part of my presentation is going to be dedicated to prayer and different types of prayer. My problem is that I'm having a...

Today is the principle feast day of the Carmelite order and the Scapular Confraternity. It's an optional memorial for the rest of the Universal Church, but the Carmelites celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel as a solemnity. Today would be a great day to spend some time in quiet...

Hi everyone :wave: I'm slowly but surely making my way through my backlog of books that I've started but never finished and I think I'm going to hold off on a few of them for now. Anyway, I was thinking about reading something by St. Teresa of Avila in the near future since I am looking at a...

Hey everyone! I've been doing a lot of discernment recently about life in general and I really feel a strong pull of attraction toward the Carmelites. I love the scapular, I love the charism, I love the saints of the order, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel is one of my favorite titles of the Blessed...

Hey everyone :wave:. I was elected president of the pro-life group at my college at the end of this year and next year I'd really like to bring a speaker to campus next year. We can probably get funding from student government so I'm not extremely concerned about cost (we should be able to pay...

I was wondering if anyone knew anything about chanting the Liturgy of the Hours. I'm part of a group of students who have started meeting a few days a week to do Evening Prayer and we would really like to incorporate a little bit of chant occasionally. We'll probably start with the Magnificat...

A friend of my brother who I know a little bit was in a pretty serious car accident today and we're not sure what kind of condition he's in. Any prayers would be very much appreciated for him and his family and friends. His name is Travis. Thanks so much and God bless!

Priest asked to prove Christ's existence in court... http://www.totalcatholic.com/universe/index.php?news_id=565 :doh:

Hey everyone :wave: I just have a question for you all. I've been getting together with some people from my Bible study at college on Saturdays to pray the rosary in front of the planned parenthood in our town (it doesn't do abortions, but it makes referrals). One of my friends was telling me...

I have a quick and kind of dumb question. Could someone please post the pronunciation for "Gaudette" as in "Gaudette Sunday." I'm giving a reflection on Advent at the local Catholic school tomorrow and I should probably be able to pronounce the word. Thanks a lot!

What a week... I mentioned a few months ago that I have a class where the professors (there are 2) advocate a relativistic world-view. They have said that relativism is a more mature way of thinking and have referred to beliefs in absolute truth as psychologically unhealthy. This past week...

I'm doing a reflection for a bible study that I go to this Thursday about All Saints Day on the readings. For the gospel I wanted to do a meditation on each of the Beatitudes (since they were the readings for that day) and a saint that exemplified each one. For example, for "Blessed are the...

Hey everyone, I just have a question about evaluating one's own moral culpability for sins committed. I sin a lot...it's not that I really want to sin...I hate it. Every time I seem to have won a battle with one vice, another surfaces and I am almost always worried that I'm in a state of...

Hey everyone, as most of you know I just moved to college and I found a parish near campus that I'm going to. I went for confession yesterday and it was kind of weird. I just confessed my sins, he asked me to say the Act of Contrition and he absolved me...there wasn't any spiritual direction...

Hey everyone, I know I haven't been on a whole lot recently, but things have been crazy here. Classes are good (for the most part), with the exception of one. I have two professors in my honors class (it's kind of like an overview of the social sciences). On the first day of class one of them...

Classes haven't even started yet and I can tell it's going to be really rough trying to be a Christian in college. I'm currently at a program for freshman that kind of has the theme "Character counts" and we just got done watching two comedians making jokes about premarital sex, inappropriate contentography...

I was kind of saddened today when I remembered that when most Holy Days fall on Mondays, the obligation to attend Mass is abrogated (with the exception of Christmas, and the Immaculate Conception in the US). Tomorrow is the Assumption of the BVM, and one of my favorite feasts. I kind of wish...