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Quick Lessons from the Catechism: The Lord’s Prayer
Last night at RCIA/Adult Confirmation was the session known as the Presentation of the Creed and Presentation of the Lord’s Prayer. This night occurs during the Purification stage of the RCIA process....
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Quick Lessons from the Catechism: “Our Father Who Art In Heaven”
Let us continue from yesterday’s QLC, which focused on the general understanding of the Lord’s Prayer. Today, we will examine what the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches on the very first words...
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Quick Lessons from the Catechism – The Seven Petitions in the Lord’s Prayer
Let us continue and finish up from last week’s QLC’s, which focused on the general understanding of the Lord’s Prayer and the first phrase of the prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven. Today, we will...
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Quick Lessons from the Catechism: Sacrament of Confirmation
Over the past few days, through a variety of different avenues at the parish, I have either overseen or directly taught on the Sacrament of Confirmation. On Monday night, Fr. Chris Axline, Chaplain and...
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Quick Lessons from the Catechism: Resurrection of the Body (and One Year...
One year ago today, April 22, 2015, my Dad, Thomas Michael Perna Sr., passed away due to complications with Crohn’s Disease, which he endured for many years. It was the hardest day of my life as well...
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Heads Up – June 2016
Now that we have entered the summer months and things have slowed down a bit for me at the parish, I wanted to update everyone on what you can expect from me over the next few months. First, I am going...
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Quick Lessons from the Catechism: The Person and Society
In light of recent events developing in the world, I want to refocus my efforts and turn back towards a series I haven’t worked on for some time – Quick Lessons from the Catechism. I think there are...
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Quick Lessons from the Catechism – What is Prayer?
Since today is the National Day of Prayer here in the United States of America, and since I have not written a Quick Lessons from the Catechism (QLC) in many months, I thought I would quickly review...
View ArticleQuick Lessons from the Catechism – The Sixth Commandment (50th Anniversary of...
With today being the 50th Anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, Humanae Vitae, I thought I would return to a series I haven’t written for some time. I am not going into the details of this...
View ArticleTomPerna.org Gets a Facelift
As you probably have noticed in the last couple of weeks from being on this website/blog is that I have redesigned the page. For the longest time, really since I began writing, this page has looked the...
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