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What does is mean to be free?
What does is mean to be free?
By Tony Jesse
One of the main reasons people refuse to follow the teachings in Catholicism is because people are too addicted to the pop culture. And, in case you haven’t figured out the obvious, the teaching in Catholicism and the teaching in the pop culture is about as opposite as you can get.
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Loving makes you Lovable
Loving makes you Lovable
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
The ennobling pattern of love fascinated the probing mind of a great Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset. Love, he said, "consists in the constant beaming forth of a favorable atmosphere...a light in which we envelop the beloved, so that all his or her good qualities can reveal themselves.
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Letters From Prison
Letters From Prison
By Michael Palaich
When the Director of the Prison Ministry for the Diocese of Phoenix, Kevin Starrs, gave me the opportunity to join the Prison Ministry as a layman to minister to the inmates incarcerated in the Phoenix, Arizona jails, it was a true blessing in my life.
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Day 58 – The First Converts
Day 58 – The First Converts
By David Vermont
Today’s we read the second half of Peter delivering the first preaching of the Apostles. A large number of the crowd are quickly converted and then hey quite naturally ask, “What shall we do?”
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Saved by the Bell
Saved by the Bell
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
The phrase "saved by the bell" does not come from boxing, as most people think, but from seventeenth-century guards at Windsor Castle. any sentry caught asleep on duty incurred the death penalty. One this-accused sentry protested his innocence, stating that he had heard the bell in the clock tower of St. Paul's Cathedral strike thirteen times at midnight.
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Witnessing to a Wavering Catholic
Witnessing to a Wavering Catholic
By Rose Cuervo
A young man tells me that he has been attending a Protestant church but he has not been telling his family, who is strongly Catholic. He tells me that he had received a call from God to serve Him more and felt that this was a call to be ordained a minister in the Protestant church and asks me what I think.
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Day 57 – Pentecost
Day 57 – Pentecost
By David Vermont
Pentecost was and is a Jewish holiday that occurs fifty days after Passover (hence the name “pente” which means fifty). This is the day the Apostles are indwelled by the Holy Spirit.
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Yes, Lord?
Yes, Lord?
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
There's a two-word epitaph in a small and inexpensive headstone of a lad buried in an obscure country cemetery in England. The words are: "Freddy!" - as if someone had called the boy's name - and underneath, as if the boy had answered, was the one-word question-response: "Yes?" That simple dialogue epitaph epitomized the virtuous life of a youth who early on had learned to respond promptly
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Day 56 – The Acts of the Apostles
Day 56 – The Acts of the Apostles
By David Vermont
Today we begin the book “The Acts of the Apostles”. The book is written by the same author as the Gospel of Luke, which is the “first book” referred to in the first sentence.
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Question: I don't see anything in Scripture that says the 12 Apostles were baptized.
Question: I don't see anything in Scripture that says the 12 Apostles were baptized.
By De Maria
Question: I don't see anything in Scripture that says the 12 Apostles were baptized. I see where St. Paul was baptized. But not the 12. It's in there. Not everything in Scripture is explicit. Protestants, hold to a rule that everything must be explicit in Scripture. But we don't.
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A Witch Mocks Christians as Stupid
A Witch Mocks Christians as Stupid
By Melanie Jean Juneau
A good friend, Martha, from Madonna House, “happened” to sit beside a self-proclaimed witch on an old bus heading towards the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. Noticing Martha’s large cross identifying her as a member of the Lay Apostolate, the witch cynically remarked that most Christians were stupid because they were completely clueless about the potential power that existed within
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Heaven's Hidden Treasure
Heaven's Hidden Treasure
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
A pious shipbuilder in Holland by the name of Peter Jansen reasoned that the basic design for the ark as revealed by God to Noah should be an ideal blueprint for such vessels. So he built a smaller ship of the same proportions - six times as long as wide, and the height one-tenth of the length.
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Day 55 – The Great Commission
Day 55 – The Great Commission
By David Vermont
Two quick things before we get to the main interest of today. First, notice that the resurrection is clearly identified as happening on Sunday.
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Not by good works which we have done
Not by good works which we have done
By De Maria
I frequently talk to people, Catholic and Protestant, mostly Protestant, who say that good works are not necessary for justification. Some of them will point out that St. Paul’s Epistle to St. Titus
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Day 54 – The Crucifixion
Day 54 – The Crucifixion
By David Vermont
Today we read of the Crucifixion and death of Jesus. There are many things to note: 1. The crucifixion and death finally closes the Passover meal that started at the Last Supper two days before.
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Why We Worship On Sunday: Answering Seventh-Day Adventists and Other Sabbatarians
Why We Worship On Sunday: Answering Seventh-Day Adventists and Other Sabbatarians
By Cynthia Trainque
Have you been asked yet -- either by a Seventh-Day Adventist or a member of other Seventh-Day Sabbatarian groups (and there are many) -- why Christians changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday? Quick answer -- the Sabbath is still on Saturday. But most (not all) Christians including Catholics, Orthodox and many Protestants observe Sunday as the Lord's Day.
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Day 53 – The Crown of Thorns
Day 53 – The Crown of Thorns
By David Vermont
The crowning of thorns marks fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham. Recall that Abraham was asked to offer his first born son as a sacrifice to God. Jesus is the first born son of Mary and the Son of God whom sacrifices himself to the Father.
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