Bernard Fleury

Heaven – The Goal of Our Conversion Journey

After we have drawn our last breath, our heart stops beating, our brain ceases to function, and our body is growing cold, we begin our final stage of our conversion journey, the stage that leads to Heaven. If the countless number of persons who have had ... Read >

The Commandments Of Catholic Christian Social Teaching And Our Conversion Journey - Part Two

The foundational principle of Catholic Christian Social Teaching in respect for human dignity which includes human life, human solidarity (love your neighbor), and preferential protection for the poor and vulnerable (powerless). Social teaching relevan... Read >

The Commandments Of Catholic Christian Social Teaching And Our Conversion Journey - Part One

Catholic social teaching is all about bringing the love of Jesus Christ to a fractured world. In the March 14, 2010 issue of Our Sunday Visitor, (pp. 10-11), Fr. William J. Byron, S.J., lists social principles that are an essential part of Catholic and o... Read >

The Practice of Excellence – A Step Forward On Our Conversion Journey

The practice of excellence presumes that there are truths that are not arbitrary. It assumes that there is some truth or standard outside the individual person (like the Ten Commandments) that exists, that can be discovered. When we do discover it we use... Read >

Finding Truth, Peace, and Love On Our Conversion Journey

Faith and reason are both intimately involved in searching for and finding the truth. We each grow up in some form of culture which shapes our perceptions and values. Through this culture we gain our understanding of the world and the human beings place... Read >

The Conversion Journey – When Our Inner Light Matches The Will Of God

There are three antiphons in the Liturgy of the Hours which is prayed by every ordained Catholic clergyman several times each day. Among the many Antiphons in the Liturgy of the Hours, these three describe to me what my habitual behavior must be if my in... Read >

The Conversion Journey – The Beatitudes of Righteousness, Meekness, Peacemakers and Martyrs

Matthew Kelly wrote in his book Rediscovering Catholicism that we are all called to live “authentic lives". This life means that from an almost infinite number of possibilities we chose one that will, with the help of God’s grace, result in each of us be... Read >

The Conversion Journey – Living The Way Of The Beatitudes

The “way" of the Beatitudes is at the heart of Jesus’ preaching. My understanding of their role in the Conversion Journey of every Christian has been shaped by many years of lived experience and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The November 2010 ed... Read >

Baptism-Entering the Christian Life on our Conversion Journey

Beginning with the Apostles’ Evangelization (hearing the “Good News" about Jesus), Conversion (coming to a belief in this person, Jesus, as the Savior) led persons to ask to be Baptized which they had heard was the way one became a Christian. These adult... Read >

The Conversion Journey as Witness to a Person

All of the first Christian evangelizers were personal witnesses to the life and teachings of a person, Jesus Christ. They literally lived with him and followed him from place to place. They preached what they saw and felt as a result of their communicat... Read >

The Role of Wisdom on Our Conversion Journey

Wisdom is a person, Jesus Christ and a gift of the Holy Spirit. Jesus, Wisdom himself, is the creator, through whom and for whom all things were made. He who created the world and all that is in it claims for himself all that bears his image especiall... Read >

The "Human" Who Makes the Christian Conversion Journey

There are some things that we are taught to memorize when we are young although we didn’t understand their full meaning at the time. One of these things for me was the answer to the Baltimore Catechism question “What is Man?" Although I was only seven y... Read >

Light Therapy: An Effective Treatment For Student’s Disruptive Behavior

In early 2006, Dr. Lizotte informed me of an exciting new use of light therapy that he was directly involved with at the North East Institute in Holyoke, Massachusetts called NERI. It is a special education school for adolescents who are so seriously d... Read >

Light Therapy for the Eyes: The Spectral Receptivity System

Since the publication of Jacob Liberman’s book, Light-Medicine of the Future in 1991, and the other work done by persons like David Tumey and William Sheline, (cf. article “A New Light on Cancer," Bernard J. Fleury, 2007), improvements continued in the te... Read >

The Medicine of the Inner and Outer Light In the Human Photocell

That the human body is a living photocell, energized and controlled by light entering the eyes is one of Liberman’s basic and innovative assumptions. 1 Once this light enters the body it has a profound effect on both our physiological and emotional funct... Read >