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Missionary Spirit: Pope Leo's inspiring life

Posted on May 13, 2025 in: Articles

By Fr. Eugene Hemrick Yeshua Fellow Viewing the missionary pictures of Pope Leo in Peru, my heart jumped bringing back memories of my desire to be a missionary. A movie of a missionary priest in action was my first inspiration to be a priest. In him there was somethin...

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Be grateful: Peaceful, orderly conclave not an ancient tradition

Posted on May 07, 2025 in: Articles

By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute As the world’s Catholic cardinals gather in Rome today, May 7, to elect a new pope, the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics can be grateful the church has such an orderly and civilized process for picking its next leader. It wasn’t alw...

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Pope Francis remembered: The Gift of Divine Inspiration

Posted on April 23, 2025 in: Articles

By Fr. Gene Hemrick Yeshua Fellow Compassionate, sympathetic, warm hearted, and tender describe Pope Francis’s gift of humanness. Translated into action, it is the desire to treat all people equal, deserving justice and love. It is embracing the desire we were made for our-God-giv...

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Valuing a worldview

Posted on March 07, 2025 in: Articles

By Fr. Eugene Hemrick Yeshua Institute Fellow “A person’s or group’s fundamental perspective on life, including their beliefs, values and assumptions,” defines the meaning of worldview. A philosophy of life is yet another way to envision it. Values, identities, r...

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Yeshua Institute helps build new source of hope and service in Uganda

Posted on February 05, 2025 in: Articles

The Beauvais Retreat Center -- named for a priest on the Yeshua Institute’s Board of Directors -- was commissioned and blessed Saturday, Jan. 25, near Kampala, Uganda. Msgr. Charles Kasibante, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Kampala, spoke, celebrated Mass and blessed the center. Constr...

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Gratitude fosters generosity … and generosity fosters abundance

Posted on November 26, 2024 in: Articles

“No one can be poor who has enough, nor rich who covets more.” Seneca By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute Gratitude is good for us. A couple decades of extensive research has established that as scientific fact. People who are grateful are also healthier and happie...

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A Catholic way to help Helene victims in North Carolina

Posted on October 09, 2024 in: Articles

By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute Some years ago I got an email invitation I wasn’t expecting. It was from an old friend, but one I had seen only once in several years. We had crossed paths at his dad’s funeral Mass. Earlier he had lost his only sibling, a baby br...

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One step at a time

Posted on February 28, 2024 in: Articles

By Fr. Eugene Hemrick Yeshua Institute Fellow As I practiced for a triathlon at Lake Michigan on a beautiful sunny day, I thought this weather would be perfect for the next day’s event. Next morning as the gun sounded, I hit...

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Struggling with gratitude? Change the station

Posted on November 22, 2023 in: Articles

By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart; I will declare all your wondrous deeds. I will delight and rejoice in you. Psalm 9:2-3b * * * If you are struggling with the notion of being grateful – really filled with gratitude – ...

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Our Listening Church: Transcript of Oct. 3 Webinar on Synod on Synodality

Posted on October 03, 2023 in: Articles

Presented by: Wendie Libert, Marywood Franciscan Spirituality Center & Owen Phelps, Yeshua Catholic International Leadership Center WENDIE: Greetings! It is such a pleasure to welcome you all today to this conversation about the upcoming synod. My name is Wendie Libert, and I am the ...

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