Michael Creavey's Blog

About a year ago I stumbled upon an old calendar from my first few months of life. My parents met on a U.S. Army base in Germany and shortly thereafter they got married and started their family. Because popular films took a while to make it to military post screens in Europe, the blockbuster 1983 Star Wars film Return of the Jedi was still in theaters when I was born in early 1984 --- apparently it was one of my parents' first post-delivery date nights! Needless to say, the original Star Wars t...

In prayer this morning, an intriguing and, I believe, rather insightful eschatological thought occurred to me.

Revelation 21:27 informs us that "nothing unclean shall enter" the Kingdom of Heaven. This is so basic it's easy to overlook it or to overcomplicate it. It doesn't say "most" unclean things --- it says nothing unclean. To most of us as we read this, it can appear like a standard that is utterly impossible to achieve.

And here's the point --- IT IS. Once we really start to understand t...

As we continue to reflect during this Respect Life Month, I shared some thoughts you may want to consider over at the Homeschool Connections Blog. Please share it far and wide! FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://homeschoolconnections.com/catholic-homeschoolers-prolife/?swcfpc=1

The Latin translation of the Lord’s Prayer includes the words “adveniat regnum tuum” — “Thy kingdom come.” Advent is the great anticipatory season of the Church. How appropriate it is that it also marks the beginning of the liturgical year... To read the entire blog article, please click here: ,https://homeschoolconnections.com/prepare-for-advent-catholic/

I’ve been truly blessed to work for over fifteen years for Our Lord and his Church in a number of ways. I’ve served in youth and young adult ministry, religious education, sacramental prep for Confirmation, and as a high school theology teacher and campus minister. In the course of spending my days attempting to educate, motivate, and inspire faith in the people whom I’ve been called to serve, I’ve routinely encountered a particularly troubling obstacle, one that has become a familiar and oftent...

I will never forget my first parent-teacher conference shortly after beginning my high school theology teacher job. From day one, I had a student who wasn’t about to hide the fact that she disagreed with practically everything the Catholic Church teaches. To this day, I’m not entirely sure what interested her or her family in our school, but perhaps grace works in even more mysterious ways than we think!

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If you’re like me, it doesn’t seem to matter how early in the year you think about the onset of this momentous season – it always seems to creep up on you!

We believers in the Lord have the greatest intentions to make the most of this time of preparation. Yet, we often find ourselves too weak or too distracted to see it through in a way that brings the spiritual transformation we had hoped to experience. With that all-too-familiar truth in mind, I’d like to share some words of encouragement as ...

I thought it would be fun to kick off my very first blog entry for Homeschool Connections by sharing some of the insights and inspirations this classic work has stirred in me over the years. And what better way to do that than focusing on my own personal favorite Top 10 quotes! I couldn’t settle on a preference order, so I’ll just stick with the order they appear in the text.

Full article at Homeschool Connections blog here: ,"Creavey’s Top 10 Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Quotes"

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Here's the way I see it. We basically have three options in life. I'll use the old "door number _" trope, so please bear with me for a moment.

Door Number 1. If you are the kind of person who thinks things are more or less what they seem, that "science has basically figured everything out" or, if it hasn't, it surely will some day, this door might be the one you're tempted to take. You don't like surprises. You don't even really believe they exist most likely. You are very pragmatic, calculatin...