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From Bethlehem with Love
From Bethlehem with Love
By David Torkington
The year was 1220, the place was Egypt, shortly after the siege of Damietta. A small nondescript looking man stood before the Sultan arrayed in all his regal finery. The nondescript man was St Francis of Assisi, the Sultan was Melek-el-Kamel commander of the Islamic army.
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One Eye On Eternity, The Other On All My Stuff
One Eye On Eternity, The Other On All My Stuff
By Teresa Hurst
Stuff. I got lots of it. As I often quote Mary Kate Danaher from The Quiet Man, I need “my own china and pewter shinin' about me. There are years of happy dreamin' in those things of mine and I want them.
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Thou Art Peter
Thou Art Peter
By Sergio Garibay-Olivares
The explanation for the papacy is not something that just Protestants ignore, but Orthodox do it as well. The reason that is ignored in both churches ten to be to the misunderstanding of who is Peter. However for the Orthodox, it can add that is due to their belief that all Patriarchs are equal, yet, this is not the truth. First let’s analyze the name of Simon Bar-Jonah. He, a simple fisherman,
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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 14: Miracles, Continued
Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 14: Miracles, Continued
By Bob Hunt
Regarding the miracles of Jesus, we have more than one written record, and those records are much more recent than anything from the Old Testament. The Gospel stories of Jesus healing the sick are too many to list here.
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A man who always did what was right
A man who always did what was right
By Sherry Kenner
Matthew 1:19 describes St. Joseph as “Joseph was a man who always did what was right..” What a beautiful description of the man chosen by God to be the head of the household of His family, the guardian of God’s own Son.
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Love Mary
Love Mary
By De Maria
Love. It frequently looks like worship. Have you ever said to your spouse or has your spouse ever said to you, "I adore you."? Or have you ever heard anyone say that to a spouse or to a parent?
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Husbands -- It's Our Role!
Husbands -- It's Our Role!
By Richard Maffeo
If you’re like me, we like being reminded that Jesus nourishes and cherishes us. The entire New Testament repeats that promise again and again. That truth lifts our head when depression seeps into our thoughts. It gives us confidence when hard times come to our families, our health, our finances, our communities, our nation.
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The most famous birth announcement
The most famous birth announcement
By Paul Couturier
The birth of a newborn child is an exciting event! The news of a new birth travels fast among immediate and extended family members. Between the telephone and all the social media we have today, the grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other extended family members all know usually within 12 hours!
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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 13: Miracles
Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 13: Miracles
By Bob Hunt
Over the course of humanity’s time on Earth, men and women have experienced, either as the beneficiaries of or witnesses to, extraordinary events that couldn’t otherwise be explained by the ordinary workings of the natural world. These are miracles. Miracles are events that are extraordinary.
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Our Great Shepherd
Our Great Shepherd
By Sherry Kenner
Growing up, I loved gazing at the nativity scene my mom would set up under the Christmas tree. My mind would imagine how special that holy night would have been for Mary and Joseph and those lucky shepherds who responded to the angels. The Son of God born in a stable in Bethlehem. What a gift to mankind!
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Christ-Mass!
Christ-Mass!
By De Maria
In this secular world, Christians decry the fact that non-Christians have taken Christ out of Christmas. But that was bound to happen after non-Catholic Christians took the Mass out of Christmas. Christ-mas is Christes Masse, or the Mass of Christ.
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Analysis of a Conversion - Why I left the Catholic Church, party time
Analysis of a Conversion - Why I left the Catholic Church, party time
By De Maria
I think it was St. Francis of Assisi or it might have been St. John Vianney, who, having passed by a bar where everyone was singing and enjoying themselves, arrived in Church to witness all the sad faces and quipped, "No wonder the bars are full. Who would want to be a Christian after looking at your gloomy faces?"
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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 12: Desire
Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 12: Desire
By Bob Hunt
We experience natural, innate desires that correspond to real objects or needs. Hunger corresponds to the real object of food and the need to be nourished. Thirst corresponds to the real object of water and the need to be hydrated.
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Mary, Mary, I'm Contrary: How to Own Your Spiritual Mother
Mary, Mary, I'm Contrary: How to Own Your Spiritual Mother
By Gwen Evans
I know you are out there, but you are keeping your head down.You may be a convert to Catholicism, an under forty Catholic who just never “got it,”, or a victim of that Intimidating Perfection from the time you could hold the beads in your stubby little fingers. You are the Catholic who doesn’t “get” Mary. You feel a little ashamed, a little annoyed, and confounded as to what to do next.
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Seven things that might surprise you, about the Shroud of Turin
Seven things that might surprise you, about the Shroud of Turin
By De Maria
The Shroud of Turin is the cloth with which Jesus Christ was wrapped after the Crucifixion. Some people would say, the alleged cloth with which He was wrapped. But the matter has been proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt. Why?
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Did Mary Have Labor Pains?: Why The Miracle of Christ's Birth Is Often Underestimated
Did Mary Have Labor Pains?: Why The Miracle of Christ's Birth Is Often Underestimated
By Nate Lauer
I have come to the realization that a majority of Christians underestimate just how magnificent, marvelous, and miraculous was the birth of Christ Jesus.
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Sharing the Moment
Sharing the Moment
By Malleson Emmerling
October 29, 2015 marked the 3rd anniversary of my breast cancer diagnosis. This is the story of the morning I was diagnosed. It was a Monday morning as I sat alone in my van in a hospital parking lot. I was in a trance. I reached for my phone to call my mother and tell her the news of my cancer diagnosis. She would no doubt understand this feeling because she had cancer too.
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