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The Fraility of Human Love Compared to God's
The Fraility of Human Love Compared to God's
By Katie Zalany
Human love is so fragile. Almost everyone has been hurt by someone they’ve loved, and has lost a loved one through death or estrangement. Human love can be sweet, blessed, and wonderful one moment; and sorrowful, frustrating, and painful another moment.
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Translations
Translations
By Barry Cullum
Have you ever been in your parish priest’s office? Have you ever noticed how many books he has on bookshelves? Visit the home of a deacon. He will have as many, if not more books. Now take a look and find the Holy Bible. You won’t find one, you will find many! Most of them will not be the standard NAB Bible. What?! Why?
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Taking Up the Cup of Salvation
Taking Up the Cup of Salvation
By Elizabeth Thomas
In the reading I heard at Mass, one line reached out to me— “the cup of salvation, I will take up.”
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Can the Catholic Church Help us Reach Heaven?
Can the Catholic Church Help us Reach Heaven?
By Donna Kendall
Road maps have always been fascinating works of art. They are drawn to scale and provide an aerial rendering of city locations, streets, highways, county lines, scenic markers, waterways, bridges, and bypasses. They give us a sense of how everything is connected and directional guidelines to help one arrive at a destination.
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We've Been Given More Than Enough Warning
We've Been Given More Than Enough Warning
By Bill Dunn
The gospel reading at Mass this weekend is the parable of the rich man and the beggar named Lazarus. (No, not the same guy Jesus raised from the dead. Apparently, Lazarus was the first century version of Bob or Fred, that is, a very common name.) The rich man, Jesus explained, “dined sumptuously each day,” while Lazarus was “covered with sores” and “would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps
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Why 27 Books of the New Testament?
Why 27 Books of the New Testament?
By William Hemsworth
There are many things that may come to an individual’s mind when it comes to sacred scripture. Some may ask why there are so many translations. Some may wonder if the Bible as we know it fell from the sky at Pentecost. However many have questions on how we have the books we have. For sure it was long and arduous process, but it was one guided by the Holy Spirit and the Church.
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Nonprofit Leadership: This Catholic's Cross and Mission
Nonprofit Leadership: This Catholic's Cross and Mission
By Melanie R. Cameron
I can't stop the waves of successes and failures. I can pray the Serenity Prayer and the Litany of Humility; I can mean these things in my heart, but the challenges still come, the reality of failure, the excitement of success... why would I not work on temperance and humility more? Why does it not feel to me like I'm improving? How can I respond to God's call to ministry when I am so limited?
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Dynamic vs Lukewarm Catholic - an obscure reason?
Dynamic vs Lukewarm Catholic - an obscure reason?
By Linda Kracht
Have you ever been introduced as being a really good Catholic? Perhaps you have heard similar introductions and been discomforted by the words that felt more like faulty praise — and for many different reasons. False praise always sends a mixed message that nobody knows how to interpret.
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Wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God. (1Cor 3:19)
Wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God. (1Cor 3:19)
By Mary Rivers
My life has been blessed by being born a fraternal twin - giving me a sense of identity, of strength, (2 for 1), a unity of shared joy.
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I asked Jesus to break my heart everyday…and he does!
I asked Jesus to break my heart everyday…and he does!
By Kathy Lamb
When I returned to college not too many years ago I was required to read a book for class, “What Do Jews Believe?” In his chapter on prayer David Ariel says something about praying with a broken heart. It wasn’t the most significant thing Ariel had to say about prayer but the idea of praying with a broken heart affected me
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Christianity Afflicts the Comfortable
Christianity Afflicts the Comfortable
By Bill Dunn
There’s an old expression that says the purpose of Christianity is to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
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The Labor of Obedience
The Labor of Obedience
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
Obedience: For many years, the word was a lightning rod to me. The concept connoted all that I disliked about being female: Powerless, submissive, conformance, passivity and the like. But then I became a Christian Catholic and a few years later, an Oblate of St. Benedict.
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Witness to the Church
Witness to the Church
By David Vermont
Recently, at Bible Study we read John chapter 5. When reading this Chapter most people instinctively focus on Jesus healing of a man on the Sabbath. It’s a miracle so it naturally draws our attention and we know that “working” of the Sabbath is one of the things that inflame the Pharisees and turn them against Jesus.
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Divine Justice and Divine Mercy in Old Testament Times
Divine Justice and Divine Mercy in Old Testament Times
By Mary Rivers
Three men in appearance, maybe the image of the Trinity, Visit Abraham and Sarah in their tent in Hebron. Abraham is gracious, giving water and food;
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Catholics Could Change the World, if They Would Only be Truly Catholic
Catholics Could Change the World, if They Would Only be Truly Catholic
By Lorrie McNickle
If we as Catholics would actually start living our Faith genuinely, trusting the Church as the representation of law and the guidance of Christ here on Earth, and made ourselves subordinate fully and wholly to God, we could change the world, overnight!
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Family Is the Heart of Vocation
Family Is the Heart of Vocation
By Jennifer Elia
The family is the very core of Creation. In the beginning, the LORD, Our Father, spoke the words of creation, which were sent forth by the Spirit, the Holy Spouse, in order to bring forth life. All creatures were brought forth into families--male and female together for the propagation and rearing of offspring.
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Caught Not Simply Taught, Then Swept Into The Heart of The Church
Caught Not Simply Taught, Then Swept Into The Heart of The Church
By Melanie Jean Juneau
Christianity is above all an experiential faith, a living relationship with Christ. A Christian is not a person who merely accumulates intellectual knowledge about God nor simply fulfills tradition and the letter of the law. Pope Benedict and Pope Francis have repeatedly emphasized that Christianity is an encounter with Jesus.
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