Aflame for Christ

Aflame 94 - Not Seeing Is Believing

Much of our faith is invisible - the soul, Heaven, the power of the Sacraments. Our Catholic faith must be grounded in something more solid than what we feel and sense. Even if we don't actually experience God, we believe the testimony of those who saw the Risen Christ, who were willing to die testifying that He is alive. This gives us strength to believe them, and to believe all that the Apostles taught, even if we do not see it with our eyes!

Dash Through the Creed 2 - Existence of God

How do we know that God exists? There are good reasons for believing it! Tune in to hear Fr. Joseph discuss the existence of God - how do we know that He exists?

Aflame 93 - The Door of Mercy

Christ invites us to approach His Heart, and the door of access to Him is His mercy. He purchased that most precious treasure at the cost of His blood, but now gives it to us freely through the Church: the Feast of Mercy, the Divine Mercy Image, and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Let us turn to His mercy now, for the door of mercy is closing quickly before the day of judgment arrives!

Aflame 92 - Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead?

In our fallen nature, we are drawn to darkness. We want to love the light, but so often we are drawn back into the chaos of sin. Do we really believe that Christ wins in the end, and that He offers us a better way to live, a way that leads to authentic joy and fulfillment? We often seek happiness in dead-end things of the world; but Christ is not in the dead-end tomb any more - He lives, and invites us to live in Him!

Aflame 91 - The Redemption of Human Suffering

Since the beginning of time, men and women have cried out to God in the midst of suffering, "Why have You done this to us? Have you abandoned us?" God's answer to these raw and honest questions is the Cross. When we gaze upon the Cross, we see the meaning and the answer to human suffering - found so profoundly in a God Who suffers with us, and Who transforms suffering, through love, into something redemptive.

Aflame 90 - The Key to Sanctity Is Humility

Saints have been made from every walk of life, but the one common thread is that all holiness requires humility. And humility is the great theme of Holy Thursday - the humility of Our Lord in becoming a Servant of the servants, washing their feet; the humility of the Apostles, who must recognize their desperate dependence upon God; the humility of Jesus in offering His life in the Holy Eucharist. We see, at this most sacred Banquet, the beautiful demonstration of that saving humility which makes us so like God!

Aflame 89 - Man Can Only Find Himself In A Gift of Himself

Our world tells us that self-fulfillment is the purpose of life. "Live your dreams, pursue your own path, make the most out of it!" But Christ offers us a different, better way to live - a life lived for others, giving of oneself so that the fruit of virtues and the fruit of sanctified souls is borne in your life. Paradoxically, it is in dying to oneself that we find true joy and fulfillment - as Pope St. John Paul II says, "Man can only find himself in a sincere gift of himself!"

Aflame 88 - God So Loved the World

Our world is a mess...but Our Lord didn't hesitate to jump into it, even to "taking on" our sin for us. But many times we prefer the mess of our sin to the clean new life Christ desires for us. During this Lenten season, we have a profound opportunity to leave the mess of our sins through repentance and Confession, and embrace the joy and peace which come from our faith in Christ as Lord of our lives.