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Getting prepared
Getting prepared
By Troy Kroening
We get ourselves prepared for many things. We prepare to face the outside cold with a coat and possibly gloves and a hat. We prepare ourselves for going to work. We prepare ourselves as best as we can sometimes.
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Teen Book Review - The Other Side of Freedom
Teen Book Review - The Other Side of Freedom
By Leslea Wahl
In case you’re not familiar with Cynthia T. Toney, this very talented writer is the author of the award-winning Bird Face series of books – 8 Notes to a Nobody, 10 Steps to Girlfriend Status, and 6 Dates to Disaster. I have read them all and thoroughly enjoy her signature style of creating intriguing stories full of unique topics with interesting characters that readers care about.
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Does God still love us when things are hard?
Does God still love us when things are hard?
By Lisa Mayer
I'll be the first to admit that it's hard for me to practice what I preach. A lot of bad things happen. But still, before it happened to me, I could always say with confidence--God still loves us. We don't know why we suffer, but it isn't because He doesn't love us. It's what I'd been taught. I fully believed it. Then... I went through hard things.
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Church Has Lost Moral Authority
Church Has Lost Moral Authority
By Bill Dunn
In a previous essay, I mentioned that the Catholic Church has lost her moral authority in our culture. There was a time in recent memory when the Church was a beacon of morality in American society. Those days are long gone. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, the ongoing clergy sex abuse scandal keeps getting worse and worse.
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She Enters the Convent - and Dad Has Mixed Feelings
She Enters the Convent - and Dad Has Mixed Feelings
By Kevin J. Banet
What is it like for parents whose daughter wants to enter the convent? It is not always one of complete joy. Of course, most parents want their children to be happy in life. But parents often think along the lines of their child finishing their education, getting married and starting a family. This is the common vocation.
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Spirituality of Labor and Delivery
Spirituality of Labor and Delivery
By Julie
My first pregnancy was the most spiritual memories for me. Each night, I would sit and rock and feel for kicks from the baby, while I prayed the evening Rosary. It always seemed baby was active as I was trying to settle down for my evening time for bed.
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The Secret of Being an Author
The Secret of Being an Author
By Lisa Mayer
I am a positive person by nature. I truly love my life and am so grateful for my blessings. But I don't want you to think that my life is by any means perfect, that I am somehow better than anyone. Because it's not, and I'm not. Like anyone else, I fight my own tough battles daily. I screw up. I make mistakes. I have a temper. Sometimes God is the last thing on my mind.
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Mispronouncing "Mercy"
Mispronouncing "Mercy"
By E.M. McCarthy
It seems that we are in a deeply disturbing place today and it is a war of words. I read an article in USA Today about a woman named Kate Carson who aborted her daughter in a late term abortion because the child had severe birth defects. The mother described the abortion as an "act of mercy."
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Finding My Story
Finding My Story
By Lisa Mayer
I've heard Christ calling me to love Him more since I was five or six years old. But I was stubborn. I was afraid of Him. I didn't love Him. And so I resisted Him. But Jesus never gave up on me. Like C.S. Lewis, it wasn't until I was older that I truly began to love Jesus Christ.
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Early Christian Spirituality - The Fruits of Contemplation
Early Christian Spirituality - The Fruits of Contemplation
By David Torkington
In 1968 Bishop Casey of Brentwood appointed me director of his retreat and conference centre at Chingford in North London. The centre, otherwise known as Walsingham House, was owned and staffed by Dominican sisters. My tenure lasted from 1969–1981. All the courses for priests and religious were aimed at spreading the New Biblical Theology that had such an influence on the Second Vatican Council.
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This Present Darkness: Six Lessons
This Present Darkness: Six Lessons
By Karl Erickson
When news of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s letter first broke during August of 2018, it felt emotionally crushing. As converts to the Catholic Church in 2005, it was particularly challenging for our family to stomach the allegations.
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Am I My Brother's Keeper
Am I My Brother's Keeper
By Elizabeth Thomas
A struggle continues within me and today the reading was about Cain struggling with his brother. Jealousy led him to kill, after he had been told by the Lord-- “Why are you so resentful and crestfallen. If you do well, you can hold up your head;
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Glimpses of Paradise in the Dark Night
Glimpses of Paradise in the Dark Night
By Amy Alexander
This past week, the fifth in ordinary time, the Mass readings have gone there. We get the breath of God and the fire of Satan. We get the devastation. We get the growth and then the loss of paradise.
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Who's Listening? Who Seems to Care Any More?
Who's Listening? Who Seems to Care Any More?
By Ralph Hathaway
A Rhetorical Statement regarding the Catholic Church and how many are viewing with disdain the teaching of Christ and the Magisterial Authority from the statement “I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven”?
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Showing God's Mercy by Listening to Ohers
Showing God's Mercy by Listening to Ohers
By Dr. Anne DeSantis
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) spoke about attending to the needs of our neighbor: “On the question of relating to our fellowman – our neighbor’s spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.”
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Wisdom Has Built Herself A House
Wisdom Has Built Herself A House
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
A Benedictine Oblate, I pray the Liturgy of the Hours with hundreds of thousands of priests and other persons of the Christian faith.
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Finding New Meaning in Suffering
Finding New Meaning in Suffering
By Katie Zalany
I was sitting in Eucharistic Adoration one evening recently and was crying out to God to relieve me of a suffering that has been years in the making. I prayed intensely for God to heal me of this burden once and for all because it continuously leads to strife.
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