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By Victor S E Moubarak
It was cold, grey and raining outside. It was so miserable that it would make a happy person miserable, and a miserable one more miserable.
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Just What Are We Facing NEXT?
Just What Are We Facing NEXT?
By Elizabeth Thomas
Everyday, something unexpected pops into your life. sometimes it is only a minor bump in the road ---sometimes it is a pain---a severe pain in the chest that turns out to be a heart attack, a trip to the hospital and stent placement the next day. Home again and off again to what is next that will come into your life.
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POPE EUGENIUS II, THE "FATHER OF THE PEOPLE"
POPE EUGENIUS II, THE "FATHER OF THE PEOPLE"
By Debra Booton McCoy
Born around 780, Eugenius was a native of Rome. He may possibly have been the son of one Boemund, but later research has dropped that from official records. Eugenius was raised into the Church and by 816 he was the archpriest of St. Sabina on the Aventine and a cardinal. He is known to have been a man who took his assignment seriously.
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Lent 2020
Lent 2020
By Ralph Hathaway
Beginning with March 2017, I wrote at least 15 articles (not including several poems) relating to Lent and the ultimate forgiveness, at Calvary. My intention was to draw attention to Jesus in relationship of our own walk to the Cross. In each one I projected my personal feelings as to what I saw spiritually and with tears of compunction put them into words.
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Saint John Bosco
Saint John Bosco
By Joseph Freyaldenhoven
It was the year 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte had just been defeated, but his iron grip on the Piedmontese area of northern Italy could still be felt. He had bled the country of all its natural resources. The people were left to their own devices to survive, or starve.
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Living The Worthy Life: Smartphones, Modern Curriculum and Communism-What Do They Have To Do With Each Other And The Church
Living The Worthy Life: Smartphones, Modern Curriculum and Communism-What Do They Have To Do With Each Other And The Church
By Michael Cunningham
What are the direct results of teaching toward a standardized test, unlimited use of social media in the class, and the rise of socialism or communism among students in the age group 18-24?
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MISLEADING THE FLOCK
MISLEADING THE FLOCK
By Patti J. Mitchell
San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy recently has been providing voting advice to young students. You might be thinking, "That is so nice to have a Bishop encourage young people to do their civic duty."
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Why We Abstain from Meat on Fridays During Lent
Why We Abstain from Meat on Fridays During Lent
By JP Nunez
Lent is coming up, which means that pretty soon, we’ll only be able to have meat six days a week. We abstain from meat on Fridays during this special season, so we’re going to have to find other things to eat on those days.
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Why No One is Having Children (and how our Church fails young adults)
Why No One is Having Children (and how our Church fails young adults)
By E.M. McCarthy
Why have young adults given up on marriage? I believe bad economic polices have destroyed the young's ability to form families and our Church leaders have contributed to this outcome by supporting globalism.
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Living The Worthy Life: Heaven Can Wait?
Living The Worthy Life: Heaven Can Wait?
By Michael Cunningham
What is something we all want to go to? We are not in a hurry to get there?
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The Man viewed Religion with Contempt—The Woman was arrested as a Revolutionary: Together they Founded a Religious Order that would spread around the World
The Man viewed Religion with Contempt—The Woman was arrested as a Revolutionary: Together they Founded a Religious Order that would spread around the World
By Larry Peterson
On December 6, 1752, Florence Chasseloup presented her husband, Pierre Fournet, with their only son who they named Andre-Hubert. Andre had one sister. The infant Andre was baptized the very next day by his uncle, Father Antoine Fournet, in the local parish, located in Vienne, France.
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Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Bernadette
Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Bernadette
By Joseph Freyaldenhoven
There is a quotation in Sacred Scripture regarding Jerusalem that reads: “JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, IF I SHOULD EVER FORGET YOU...” There are many holy places that this passage would apply to including Jerusalem. But for us, when we hear this passage, our minds race to that magical place where honor is given to Our Lord Jesus through His Mother Mary, her shrine at Lourdes in France.
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Life's Jigsaw Puzzle
Life's Jigsaw Puzzle
By Victor S E Moubarak
A friend I was visiting in another town took me to his place of work which is a large factory that makes jigsaw puzzles. What a fascinating tour that was. I learnt a lot about jigsaw puzzles which I did not know.
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John the Baptist Had Doubts About Jesus
John the Baptist Had Doubts About Jesus
By Bill Dunn
A few weeks ago, we discussed John the Baptist, who said some awesome things when he baptized Jesus. At first, John was reluctant even to baptize the Lord, and said that Jesus ought to baptize him instead. Then he said that Jesus is “the lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.”
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May Human Love Point You to God's Healing Love
May Human Love Point You to God's Healing Love
By Katie Zalany
I recently went on a few dates with a nice young man, and we’ve gotten to the point where the conversations are a little deeper. We’ve actually been acquainted for three years, so inevitably the harder questions have come earlier than one might expect. The truer selves have begun to emerge.
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Can bad ever be a good thing?
Can bad ever be a good thing?
By Troy Kroening
Even good people like to be bad sometimes. Like getting back at that person that cut you off in traffic. Or being called a ‘bad’ man out of respect that you are not to be messed with. But does anything, and I mean ANYTHING, justify us doing bad?
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God is Not an Impersonal ‘Force'
God is Not an Impersonal ‘Force'
By Bill Dunn
The old Baltimore Catechism asked this question: “Why did God make me?” And the answer was: “God made me to know Him, and to love Him, and to serve Him in this world; and to be happy with Him forever in the next world.”
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