Vanity & Vainglory
Vanity & Vainglory
Beauty is a good thing. After all, we are created in the image and likeness of God, Who is beauty itself. But vanity is an excessive love of one's own excellence or appearance, and considered a form of pride, which is one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Father Jason Lewis, MIC, explains.
Then hear Fr. Mark Baron, MIC, in conversation with Fr. Conor Sullivan, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis who is an expert in psychology, counseling, and mental health, especially in relation to seminarian discernment.
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The readings for this homily: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/011526.cfm
Why would God allow Israel to be defeated even while the Levites were carrying the Ark of the Covenant before the army into battle? And why would Jesus heal a leper — then sternly command him to tell no one? In this homily, Fr. Mark Baron, MIC, brings these unsettling questions together and shows that they reveal the same spiritual danger: presumption.
The pinnacle of God's gift of mercy is Divine Mercy Sunday, the very feast that Christ Himself wanted to establish on the Sunday after Easter. Although St. Faustina recorded this in her diary during the 1930s, the feast itself was not officially recognized in the Church until the year 2000 by Pope St. John Paul II.Father Donald Calloway, MIC, explains the promises of this extraordinary feast.
