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Kathleen Beckman - who has written 8 posts on Catholic Exchange.


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As We Live, So Too We Die

Posted on 11 August 2010

My dearest friend shared the following story with me as I was writing my book, Rekindle Eucharistic Amazement. We placed the story in the book to help people know the consequences of yielding to demonic influences.
A hospice patient whom…

Absence, Absolution, Adoration

Posted on 30 July 2010

Are you experiencing a perceived absence of God, or absence of family, friends, money, hope, love, housing, or work?  These real or perceived absences are draining life out of people.  Often our heartache is an absence of relationship.  The days…

Eucharistic Inner Healing and Deliverance from Evil

Posted on 08 July 2010

The purpose of the SCRC Catholic Charismatic Conference was to build up faith in the reality of Eucharistic inner healing and Eucharistic deliverance from evil spirits.  We all believe in this, right? I mean we do believe that the Eucharist…

The Relevancy of Defending Life: My Experience of a Culture of Death

Posted on 29 June 2010

On a beautiful spring Saturday morning in Southern California my family looked forward to attending our son’s baseball game. Just before leaving the house we received a phone call informing us that our father had been rushed to the hospital…

Only for Love: The Sacred Heart and the Priesthood

Posted on 11 June 2010

On the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, 19 June 2009, I was in Washington DC to attend my friend’s ordination to priesthood.  The day prior to his ordination I attended the Inaugural Mass in observance of the Year for Priests…

Body and Blood of Christ: Spiritual Armor

Posted on 07 June 2010

In the last paragraph of the introduction to Ecclesia de Eucharistia, Pope John Paul II states, “it is my hope that the present Encyclical Letter will effectively help to banish the dark clouds of unacceptable doctrine and practice so that…

The Visitation: Joy and Healing

Posted on 31 May 2010

The Feast of the Visitation is an ideal time to consider the joy of carrying Jesus to others.  Authentic Christian joy is an infallible sign of the Holy Spirit. Father Francis Fernandez wrote, “A gloomy soul is at the mercy…

Praying the Holy Rosary for Healing and Deliverance

Posted on 21 May 2010

In his 2002 Apostolic Letter, “On The Most Holy Rosary,” written to mark the inauguration of the Year of the Rosary,  Pope John Paul II quotes Pope Leo XIII: “The rosary is an effective spiritual weapon against the evils affecting…