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, […]
TomPerna.org Gets a Facelift
Quick Lessons from the Catechism – The Sixth Commandment (50th Anniversary of Humanae Vitae)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Quick Lessons from the Catechism: Resurrection of the Body (and One Year Without Dad)
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Quick Lessons from the Catechism: Mary – Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church
Since it’s been nearly a week and a half since my last blog post, not intentional of course, I just moved and many of my resources are still in boxes; I thought […]
Quick Lessons from Catechism: The Use of Social Communications Media
In recent days, with the State of the Union (which could be used for those suffering from insomnia) and the GOP Presidential Debate last night, I realized how biased the mainstream media […]
Quick Lessons from the Catechism: The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation
Although I’ve written in the past here about the Sacrament of Reconciliation, I felt the need today to share with you what the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches on this beautiful […]
Quick Lessons from the Catechism: The Obedience of Faith
Recently I was on the Internet reading different blog posts from fellow Catholic bloggers, when I came upon a comment at the bottom of a blog post from someone who said they […]
Quick Lessons from the Catechism: The Morality of Human Acts
In light of the rather troubling and disturbing videos that have been coming out about Planned Parenthood and their selling/harvesting of human body parts, I found today to be a excellent opportunity […]
Quick Lessons from the Catechism: The Love of Husband and Wife (and NFP Awareness Week)
Since this past Sunday, July 19 and running through Saturday, July 25, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is celebrating the National Natural Family Planning (NFP) Awareness Week. It’s a national […]
Quick Lessons from the Catechism: Love For the Poor
Last night as I was checking my Twitter account, I came upon this article entitled, Barack Obama: Catholic and Evangelical Churches Care More About Abortion Than the Poor. As I read it […]
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