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Joy in Our Savior
Joy in Our Savior
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
The first reason for joy relates to salvation or to the Savior who effects it, since salvation is the culminating joyful event of all human history.
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Joy the Sparkle of Life
Joy the Sparkle of Life
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Only for those who have truly "found the Lord" can there be true, lasting spiritual joy, as distinguished from worldly joy or mirth. Spiritual joy is like the Bethlehem star, worldly joy like a passing meteor. The former is like a floodlight, the latter like a quick-burning match flame.
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Get to Know Your Guardian Angel
Get to Know Your Guardian Angel
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Along with invisible material realities, God has provided us also with invisible spiritual realities, such as virtue, actual and sanctifying grace, and even his own divine presence in many forms, from cosmic to Eucharistic.
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That's Just Not for Me
That's Just Not for Me
By Elizabeth Thomas
The Pentecost experience! I wonder if the apostles only knew what was going to happen to them when the Holy Spirit came upon them, if they would have been so long in prayer, waiting as they were told to do?
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Cultivating Marian Devotion
Cultivating Marian Devotion
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
In order to venerate Mary (it would be sacrilegious to worship her or any creature!), we must relate to her as a living, loving person—a pre-eminently special person who is also our spiritual mother and who loves us personally with an indescribable love. This personal relationship with Mary requires a special grace from God. If he hasn't bestowed that grace on you, plead for him to do so.
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Imitation - The Highest Form Of Compliment
Imitation - The Highest Form Of Compliment
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Corresponding to Mary's God-planned uniqueness by reason of her co-activity in God's redemptive plan is her equally God-planned uniqueness in holiness. She is one of a kind, both in her "positive" spirituality (her virtue) and in her "negative" spirituality (her sinlessness).
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Where Beautiful Gardens Grow
Where Beautiful Gardens Grow
By Carol Monaco
Anyone who has ever planted a seed can appreciate that gardening is indeed a labor of love. The digging, the fertilizing, the planting, the daily maintenance, and the constant weeding — we do it all with one goal in mind — to grow a beautiful garden.
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The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments
By William Hemsworth
The first commandment forbids idolatry and polytheism. It promotes putting God first in our lives and aligning our lives in such a way that nothing takes the place of God.
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Rediscovering "Our Blessed Mother"
Rediscovering "Our Blessed Mother"
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
An unfortunate fact about Mary's relationship to her Son's mystical body is this: While most Christians admire and respect Mary, they don't relate to her as our spiritual mother, which she is by virtue of our union with Jesus.
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Mary, "Our Tainted Nature's Solitary Boast"
Mary, "Our Tainted Nature's Solitary Boast"
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Did a woman cause all of society's problems? After all, it was Eve who committed the first sin, as Paul points out (see 1 Timothy 2:14). However, Paul also states that "sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin" (Rom 5:12). It was not that first sin, the sin of Eve, that caused our problems; it was the second sin, the sin of Adam, that contaminated the entire human race, includ
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Devout Use Of The Bible
Devout Use Of The Bible
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
This brings us to the third prerequisite for releasing the power of God's Word, namely, devotion or prayerfulness in the use of Scripture. Even when one has hungered for the Word and attained some knowledge of it, apathy in devotion can abort its problem-solving power.
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Familiarity With God's Word
Familiarity With God's Word
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
After the first element we must have for God's word to abide in us, Hunger for God's Word, that we reviewed yesterday, the second power trigger, familiarity with Scripture, implies a kind of knowledge that is unsatisfied with a shallow inquiry. A superficial investigation into God's Word will not only lead to distorted conclusions, as Peter reminds us (2 Pt 3:16), but also will fall short
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Fifty Years Of Marriage
Fifty Years Of Marriage
By Mary Rivers
Yesterday we were looking at old pictures of ourselves with a car we still own, a collector car. The car still looks the same, but I hardly recognized us. Things remain the same, yet people are always changing- sometimes for better, sometimes not so well. We had arms looped around each other, a sign of affection; now our arms entwine to hold each other up.
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Walking in the Shadow of Death
Walking in the Shadow of Death
By Elizabeth Thomas
From the moment of birth, entering into life: we walk through that valley of the shadow of death.
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Hunger for God's Word
Hunger for God's Word
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Hungering God's Word leads to "eating" it—not literally, of course (although the Old Testament prophets Ezekiel and Jeremiah did exactly this, as did John in the book of Revelation: see Ezekiel 3:1-3; Jeremiah 15:16; Revelation 109-10), but by devouring it with our minds and hearts.
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Pentecost and Eternal Perspective
Pentecost and Eternal Perspective
By Mark C. McCann
In 2005, the movie “Cinderella Man” (Universal Pictures) hit the big screen. It told the story of a former boxer named James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe) and his experience during the Great Depression. He struggled to keep his family fed, working shifts on the docks unloading cargo until his former manager Joe Gould (Paul Giamattie) offered him one last fight
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Ten Reasons Society Should Always Reject Abortion
Ten Reasons Society Should Always Reject Abortion
By E.M. McCarthy
Abortion is war, and with all wars brutality and death rule.
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