Deacon Omar F.A. Gutiérrez

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL NY

A Eucharistic Congress Experience Just for Deacons

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I recently read Holly Ordway’s 2014 book “Not God’s Type” (Ignatius, $16.95) about her conversion to the Catholic faith from virulent atheism. She wrote that, while an atheist, she believed herself to be a certain kind of person: smart, rational and informed. She was and is all of those things, but she presumed that these Read More
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Deacon as Eucharistic Bridge

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In 1988, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s collection of essays “Church, Ecumenism, and Politics” was published. One of the essays, titled “Freedom and Constraint in the Church,” touches on freedom, or liberation, from the biblical perspective and focuses on freedom as a fruit of identity. The essay explains that the Greek word for freedom, eleutheria, refers Read More