St. Ita Catholic Church, Chicago

St. Ita Catholic Church, Chicago

St. Ita Catholic Church, Chicago

St. Ita Catholic Church, Chicago

Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes - Slashdot

Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes - Slashdot

Ten Commandments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ten Commandments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 
The Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical laws relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism, Islam and Christianity. They include instructions to worship only God, to keep the sabbath holy and prohibitions against idolatry, blasphemy, murder, theft, deception and adultery. Different groups follow slightly different traditions for interpreting and numbering them.
The Ten Commandments appear twice in the Hebrew Bible, in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy. According to the story in Exodus, God inscribed them on two stone tablets, which he gave to Moses on Mount Sinai. Modern scholarship has found likely influences in Hittite and Mesopotamian laws and treaties, but is divided over exactly when the Ten Commandments were written and who wrote them.

Atonement on Easter Sunday - CNN iReport

Atonement on Easter Sunday - CNN iReport

In theology, atonement is a doctrine that describes how human beings can be reconciled to God.^[1] In Christian theology the atonement refers to the forgiving or pardoning of sin through the death of Jesus Christ by crucifixion,^[2] which made possible the reconciliation between God and creation. Within Christianity there are, historically, three^[3] or four^[4] main theories for how such atonement might work:

• The ransom theory/Christus Victor (which are different, but generally considered together as Patristic or "classical", to use Gustaf Aulen's nomenclature, theories, being argued that these were the traditional understandings of the early Church Fathers);
• The moral influence theory, which Aulen considered to be developed by Peter Abelard (called by him the "idealistic" view),
• The satisfaction theory developed by Anselm of Canterbury (called by Aulen the "scholastic" view),

• The penal substitution theory (which is a refinement of the Anselmian satisfaction theory developed by the Protestant Reformers, especially John Calvin, and is often treated together with the satisfaction view, giving rise to the "four main types" of atonement theories - classical or patristic, scholastic, and idealistic - spoken of by Aulen).^[3]

• The shared atonement theory, in which the atonement is spoken of as shared by all. To wit, God sustains the Universe. Therefore if Jesus was God in human form, when he died, we all died with him, and when he rose from the dead, we all rose with him.^[5][6]

St. Pius X Catholic Community

St. Pius X Catholic Community
MARCH 30 – HOLY SATURDAY
Celebration of Easter Vigil* – 7:30 p.m.
(*Vigil will begin outside)
Fellowship / Refreshments
Morning Prayer – 8:30 a.m.
Blessing of the Easter Food Baskets – 11:00 a.m.
MARCH 31 – EASTER SUNDAY
Eucharist – 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 a.m.
Children’s Easter Egg Hunt following 11:30 a.m.
Misa de Pascua – 4:00 p.m.

St. Gertrude Catholic Parish

St. Gertrude Catholic Parish
EASTER VIGIL, Saturday, March 30
11:00 a.m. Blessing of Easter Food
3 – 4:00 p.m. Confessions
7:30 p.m. Easter Vigil Mass
* Striking of the New Fire
(done jointly this year with Immanuel Lutheran Church,
7:15pm at Elmdale and Greenview)
* Blessing of the Easter Water
* Re-telling the stories of Salvation History
* Entrance of Catechumens into full communion with the Catholic Church
* Hymn to This Most Sacred of Nights
EASTER SUNDAY, March 31
The Celebration Continues…
Masses * Church: 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m.
* St. Gertrude East: 9:30 a.m. (Sheridan & Granville)
* Gym: 10:30 a.m., includes Liturgical Dance