http://www.thesocialcatholic.com Recent blog posts from my shop. en-US Ezekiel, Child of Light, Marked by the Cross, Clothed in grace, wait for us. Pray for us. We will meet you again in joy that never ends. Amen. Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:46:39 -0400 https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/1406181483987/the-mystery-of-a-brief-life-funeral https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/1406181483987/the-mystery-of-a-brief-life-funeral?pub=1756860399 St. Ezekiel Michael David Donaire Higgins was born, baptized, confirmed, and died on July 16, 2025. Baptism wiped away the stain of Adam’s sin from the fall of man, and Ezekiel was incapable of committing a personal sin in the course of his short life. Therefore, we can be assured that he is now in heaven. St. Ezekiel, pray for us! Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:35:56 -0400 https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/1405164485451/the-life-of-st-ezekiel-michael-higgins https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/1405164485451/the-life-of-st-ezekiel-michael-higgins?pub=1756845356 "I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life… so that you may live in the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors" Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:35:20 -0500 https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/1007652355712/victory-and-defeat-life-and-death https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/1007652355712/victory-and-defeat-life-and-death?pub=1613943320 When he hangs on the cross we should know this truly happened and that it happened for the world to see so that he could manifest his glory. And like him you can enter that tomb for three days and emerge from the Baptismal waters a new creation in full communion with Christ as a member of his Mystical body where you too can say, “O death, wear is your sting?” Tue, 15 Dec 2020 19:23:07 -0500 https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/1024056964971/the-creed-article-4-jesus-christ https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/1024056964971/the-creed-article-4-jesus-christ?pub=1608078187 The Original Sin of Adam and Eve was a personal sin committed by an act of disobedience by our first parents, but the origin of their sin was not in the disobedience itself, but in the pride that replaced the trust in man’s heart. Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:17:42 -0400 https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/989058611532/what-was-the-original-sin https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/989058611532/what-was-the-original-sin?pub=1604096262 Peter – the first Pope of the Church – is an example of God working from within our weakness and brokenness, to bring about his kingdom. Thu, 29 Oct 2020 20:41:56 -0400 https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/1010420242957/st-peters-strength-originates-in-his https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/1010420242957/st-peters-strength-originates-in-his?pub=1604018516 Here, on the Social Catholic blog, we endeavor to take up that call. We strive to present the deposit of faith in a clearly conceived, serious and well organized effort to bring the message of Christ into the world. By the grace of God we are not alone in this mission. Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:40:52 -0400 https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/1009410054235/living-the-new-evangelization-through https://www.thesocialcatholic.com/post/1009410054235/living-the-new-evangelization-through?pub=1603928452