
Fulton Sheen on the True Meaning of Easter
‘Unless there is a Good Friday in our lives, there will never be an Easter Sunday.’
‘Unless there is a Good Friday in our lives, there will never be an Easter Sunday.’
The July 9 family-friendly event will focus on rediscovering Venerable Fulton Sheen’s messages for our times, signing a petition to have his beatification Mass rescheduled soon, and several related activities.
COMMENTARY: ‘I want to see the Lord. I have spent hours before Him in the Blessed Sacrament. … [N]ow I want to see Him face-to-face.’
BOOK PICK: ‘The Devil and Bella Dodd’ tells the conversion story of a woman who tried to ‘infiltrate’ the Church.
‘Admitting that we do not know everything,’ says Sheen, ‘there is one truth we will never relinquish: an absolute trust in the Providence of God even in adversity, sorrow, depression, catastrophe, and war.’
BOOK PICK: On July 4, 1941, then-Msgr. Fulton Sheen published a book to stir America’s soul into realizing what its independence entailed and to warn Americans what they must do to keep it.
Venerable Sheen, an American evangelist and television personality who died in 1979, was set to be beatified in Peoria, where he had served as a priest, in December 2019.
COMMENTARY: The abysmal failures of communism in Russia, North Korea, China, Cuba and wherever it was employed are not difficult to see.
THE JUBILEE OF ST. JOSEPH: Excerpt from Fulton Sheen’s ‘The World’s First Love: Mary, Mother of God’
As we’ve seen Bishop Fulton Sheen was prophetic about the problems he foresaw years before they came over the horizon. He was no less so about America in a TV broadcast more than half a century ago.
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