By Fr Joseph B Francis – We have come to the conclusion of the Creed and we conclude with a resounding act of faith: AMEN.
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Category: I Believe
Would Heaven Be Monotonous?
By Fr. Joseph B Francis – Continuing his series on the Apostles’ Creed I Believe, Fr. Joseph Francis relates an incident and dwells on the concept
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Chapter XXXII: (I Believe in the) Life Everlasting
By Fr. Joseph B Francis – Continuing the series on ‘I Believe’, the Niceno-Constantinople Creed (381 AD) has a variant: “…and the life of the
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Pneumatological Aspect of Our Final Resurrection
By Fr. Joseph B Francis – Continuing the series on ‘I Believe’, there is also a Pneumatological (Holy Spirit) aspect to the expectation of our
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Chapter XXXI: (I Believe in the) Resurrection of the Body (2)
By Fr. Joseph B Francis – Paul’s teaching on the Resurrection of the Body Paul experienced much difficulty in proposing the belief in resurrection of
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Chapter XXX: (I believe in the) Resurrection of the Body (1)
By Fr. Joseph B Francis – The hope of our bodily resurrection at the end of time The Niceno-Constantinople Creed (381 AD) is slightly longer
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Chapter XXIX: I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins
By Fr. Joseph B Francis – God is ever ready to forgive the repentant sinner The Niceno-Constantinople Creed (381 AD) has a variation here: “I
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Chapter XXVIII: The Catholic Doctrine on Purgatory
By Fr. Joseph B Francis – The development of the doctrine on the existence of “purgatory” The Catholic doctrine on purgatory is often not correctly
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Chapter XXVII: Significance of Our Biological Human Death
By Fr. Joseph B Francis – Our biological death has to take place before we move from this world of 4 dimensions to the next
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Chapter XXVI: (I Believe in) the Communion of Saints
By Fr. Joseph Francis – What does the Church document Lumen Gentium say about the Communion of saints? The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
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Chapter XXV: I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church (2)
By Fr. Joseph Francis – The 4 Notes of the Church of God Here we briefly examine the 4 “notes” or “marks” of the Church
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Chapter XXIV: I believe in the Holy Catholic Church (1)
By Fr. Joseph Francis — The Niceno-Constantinople Creed (381 AD) has a longer expansion of this: “I believe in one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church”.
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Chapter XXIII: I believe in the Holy Spirit
By Fr. Joseph Francis — Who is the Holy Spirit? In the Niceno-Constantinople Creed (381 AD) this is long and elaborate: “I believe in the
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Chapter XXII: To Judge the Living and the Dead (2)
By Fr. Joseph Francis — At the end would there be a destruction and re-creation of new heavens and new earth or only a transformation
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Chapter XXI: To Judge The Living and the Dead (1)
By Fr. Joseph Francis — Judgment as completion The purpose of this complete, fully visible manifestation and presence at “Parousia” is not to begin all
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