Mar 21, 2020 | Media, Publications
The Narrow Gate this week is taken from Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers‘ blog The Deacon’s Heart, originally published on Ash Wednesday of 2011. I am the oldest of four children in a family that includes three boys and a girl. My younger brother and I often gave our...
Jan 2, 2020 | Media, Publications
In the ordination rite for deacons, the prayer of consecration states: “Lord, look with favor on these servants of yours, whom we now dedicate to the office of deacon, to minister at your holy altar. Lord, send forth upon them the Holy Spirit, that they may be...
Nov 9, 2019 | Media, Publications
November 7, 2019 CRYSTAL LAKE—A Catholic’s duty is to watch for an opening, get his or her foot in the door, toss in some seeds of faith, and let God do His work. Be “contagiously Catholic.” That is the theory of Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, co-host of the EWTN’s...
Sep 18, 2019 | Publications, Sacraments
Travelling from the Catholic Diocese of Portland, Oregon, USA, Deacon Harold has been serving as a deacon for seven years and has a wife and four children. “If we look at our culture today, marriage is under attack. People say they are trying to re-define marriage,...
Sep 12, 2019 | Media, Publications
The reality of Christ’s presence in the Eucharist, as Saint Teresa so beautifully reminds us, is at the heart and soul of what it means to be Catholic. The Eucharist is the principal source of strength and nourishment for our souls precisely because it is Christ...
Jul 13, 2019 | Catholic Life, Media, Publications
Rather, in a way too few hagiographies do, Deacon Burke-Sivers aims to give us a deeply rich and often profoundly moving meditation not only on Father Tolton’s life but on how that life explicates crucially essential elements of the Catholic faith. He also prompts...
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