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Don't Resuscitate - Exterminate
Don't Resuscitate - Exterminate
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
The genius of modern technology has found ways to repair most types of defective gadgets, from virus-diseased computers to the Hubble telescope and spacecraft toilets. But now one has yet found a way to straighten a crooked billiard cue.
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Where Were You when the Lights Went Out?
Where Were You when the Lights Went Out?
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Centuries ago a European nobleman built a church to leave as a spiritual legacy for his townspeople. At the opening ceremony, the townsfolk began asking, "Were are the lamps? How will it be lighted?" The nobleman pointed to empty lamp brackets along the walls, each assigned to a family that was given a lamp to be brought and lighted at the worship service each Sunday
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Day 158 – Celibacy
Day 158 – Celibacy
By David Vermont
Paul continues on today expounding on the rules for marriage and sexual relations. He makes two statements that are particularly interesting. Now as a concession, not a command, I say this. I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another. To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am.
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Try This Breath Test
Try This Breath Test
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Debunking poor excuses for any form of spiritual sloth could easliy become a full-time job for any pastor. Instead of a "breath test," we all need to take a gut-level "honesty test" periodically to check our motives.
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The Magnificent Dogma of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary- ---
The Magnificent Dogma of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary- ---
By Larry Peterson
The Third Ecumenical Council held by the Catholic Church took place in Ephesus in 431. The Council was called to refute the teaching being put forth by the Patriarch of Constantinople, Nestorius. He held that the Virgin Mary may only be called the Christotokos (Birth Giver of Christ) and not Theotokos (Mother of God).
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My Top 3
My Top 3
By Rose Cuervo
In "Jorge from Argentina: The Story of Pope Francis for Children" by Marlyn Monge, a pre-ordination event is mentioned when the then-seminarian was moved to write thirteen precepts of his personal faith convictions (of the Mother of God, of Christ, etc.)
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Bourbon with a Sermon
Bourbon with a Sermon
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
In old frontier towns the first ones to set up shop were whiskey sellers and preachers. Today, when neighborhoods are dying, the last places to shut down are liquor stores and churches. There has to be a moral in that demographic footnote.
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Faith Alone?
Faith Alone?
By Matthew Martinez
As we approach the 500th anniversary of the reformation I have decided to write on one of the two biggest tenants of that movement- Sola Fide (faith alone). Martin Luther’s revolutionary idea was that we are justified by faith alone (sola fide in Latin).
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When the Obvious Isn't
When the Obvious Isn't
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
One of the most obvious things that fail to be consistently obvious to most people is the simple fact that we all have to die sometime - except persons alive at the time of Jesus' second coming; they'll be instantly "reconfigured" (see 1 Corinthians 15:51-52).
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Day 155 – Stewards of the Mysteries of God
Day 155 – Stewards of the Mysteries of God
By David Vermont
There are so many things in the fourth chapter of First Corinthians, it’s hard to know what to write about. So when in doubt, start with the first sentence: This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
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Changing Your Outlook to an Uplook
Changing Your Outlook to an Uplook
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
At a metropolitan intersection a pollster sprang this question on twenty passersby: "Without looking up, tell me what the sky looks like right now." Not one could say. To most city people, the sky and its clouds are of little or no consequence.
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The Apocalypse: an Eternal Dream of What Would Always be in a Fallen World that is to Receive an Incarnation?
The Apocalypse: an Eternal Dream of What Would Always be in a Fallen World that is to Receive an Incarnation?
By Scott Pauline
In a Star Trek episode of many years ago, the original cast had discovered a world that had mid-twentieth-century technology. A conflict existed. The ruling people of that world would take a certain persecuted people and put them in sports stadiums and abuse and kill them.
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What Can You Do with a "Birr"?
What Can You Do with a "Birr"?
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Just as the usefulness (subjective value) of a coin may vary in different situations, so also many human activities have considerable value in one situation but little or no value in another situation.
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Bright As Night
Bright As Night
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
In the spiritual life there are likewise only two seasons - light and darkness. Paul writes of both day and night in the same sentence to counterpoint the difference between spiritual enlightenment by faith in Jesus and the spiritual darkness that envelops those refusing to believe in him. for those not living with the Lord, even "the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night" (1 Thes 5:
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The Kingship of Christ and the American Founding
The Kingship of Christ and the American Founding
By Robert Curtis O.P.
During the historical period before and after the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, a prevailing expectation among the Israelite people was the appearance of the Messiah. The common view of the Messiah was King and Savior, or the religious figure but also a political figure who would govern nations.
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Psalm 50--God Blogs Today
Psalm 50--God Blogs Today
By Elizabeth Thomas
GOD HAS SPOKEN---ARE WE LISTENING? When you pray, are your prayers answered? God wants a Sacrifice of Praise! Thanksgiving opens the Gates of Heaven!
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Go with the Flow
Go with the Flow
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
We spend too much time and trouble going to wrong direction on life's one-way streets, or swimming against the current. It's so much easier (and safer) to "go with the flow."
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