Catholic in Belfast

"We are family, I got all my sisters with me. We are family, get up everybody and sing... Everyone can see we are together as we walk on by. And we fly just like birds of a feather, I won't tell no lie. All of the people around us they say, Can they be that close. Just let me state for the record we are giving love in a family dose." This lovely song by Sister Sledge describes very well what we are called to be as Church of God, Holy and Catholic, Mystical Body of Christ. We are called to be Community, a fraternal gathering of brothers and sisters. We are called to be Family, the family of  the Church. We should learn and bear in mind that the two biggest structural basis and roots of the society are emotional and spiritual: the Family and the Faith. Knowing that and specifically for that reason the Evil one attacks these two basis in order to steal, kill and destroy the image and likeness of God that are each and every one of us. Today we are going to briefly make s

We are in a real need of vocations in the Church of God, Holy and Catholic. When we do talk about vocation, people often tend to think about the Priesthood, Sisterhood or Brotherhood. But it is not only that. There is also the Matrimony. And the biggest vocation that everyone is called for: the vocation to holiness. In regards to that there is a wonderful quotation from Saint John Paul II. He used to say: 'The christian vocation is holiness, in every moment of life. In the spring of young age, in the full summer of mature age, after that in the autumn and winter of old age, and lastly, in the hour of death'. Saint Paul states the same calling to holiness on his letter to the Thessalonians, "God wills you all to be holy(...). God called us to be holy." (1 Thessalonians 4:3.7) On the Old Testament Our beloved God, the Father, calls us to be holy like He himself is. "For it is I, Yahweh, who am your God. You have been sanctified and have become holy because I