Open Line, Wednesday - 12/16/2015 - Deacon Harold-Burke Sivers, in for Scripture scholar Fr. Mitch Pacwa

Summary: Christmas is on a Friday, this year. We like to abstain from meat, so listener Joe asks if we need to abstain on Christmas? Listener Eloise asks if Christ rose out of his own power or was He raised. Speaker and evangelizer, aka the “Dynamic Deacon” Harold Burke-Sivers fills in for Fr. Mitch Pacwa in hosting “EWTN Open Line—Wednesday.” Claudine asks what are the requirements to qualify as a Godparent. Michelle asks about Pope Francis’ exhortation that Earth is our common home and our obligation to follow that. Bill asks about the “year of jubilee” in the Jewish religion. Patterson asks about I Peter 3:7 and how men are supposed to treat women. Glenn is Protestant and is trying to understand why we need to practice the Sacraments. Lita claims we are not forced to reduce carbon emissions or to recycle. Patrick says he doesn’t get it… why is it that we either get marriage right the first time or we are done. Dynamize your faith, right here on “EWTN Open Line—Wednesday.”