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The Creed - to Recite or Not!
The Creed - to Recite or Not!
By Lorrie McNickle
Many years ago, under a full moon and a weight of distress that was spirit crushing, Jesus prayed. He was hours from succumbing willfully to a torture and death that would be difficult and excruciatingly painful, but what seems to cause Jesus the most devastation this evening and what caused him a grief and torment so deep that he actually prayed to the Father about it - was the Unity of us
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The Song Goes On
The Song Goes On
By Steve Reasbeck
When Christ established HIS Church, He stated He would always be with it, and that the ‘gates of hell’ would not stand against it. His words, not mine. I’ve always taken them at face value.
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Enduring Joy: What Serving Refugees Taught Me
Enduring Joy: What Serving Refugees Taught Me
By Katie Zalany
Our city’s Catholic Charities recently held a Wellness Fair for its refugee clients. I was able to take a day off and volunteer for it. As part of the fair, refugees received education about various community resources to help support their health and well-being, and were also offered a little pampering.
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We Need Christmas Because We Need a Savior
We Need Christmas Because We Need a Savior
By Katie Zalany
Why do we need Christmas? Because we need a Savior. I think I have a new understanding of Advent and Christmas. Christmas is about salvation and Advent is a season in which we ask and wait for our Lord to set us free.
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Loneliness; Is it Becoming a Common Entity within Humanity?
Loneliness; Is it Becoming a Common Entity within Humanity?
By Ralph Hathaway
“Loneliness is tearing America apart” yet another article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday, December 9, 2018. A news article by Arthur C. Brooks that should open the minds of readers to a bewildering and in the eyes of many unimportant fact that too many seem to overlook this insidious symptom of “others with problems” doesn’t affect me.
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Celibacy and Sexual Deviancy – Mystical Theology has the answer
Celibacy and Sexual Deviancy – Mystical Theology has the answer
By David Torkington
It is said that those who have been uncovering the truth about the corruption in the Church, most particularly in high places, are the instruments of the devil because they scandalize the faithful. But the devil is the purveyor of lies not the truth. It is the Holy Spirit who is the purveyor of the truth, and those who speak the truth are acting in his name,
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Somebody's Handmaid
Somebody's Handmaid
By Susan Skinner
I went to adoration the other day to ponder the Seven Sorrows of Mary and how they are actually healing because a new friend had said I should do this. I meditated on Mary’s Sorrows for awhile and then I got into my car and drove home. On the way home I listened to this song called Mary, by Patty Griffin and I bawled my eyes out.
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Celebrate the REAL Christmas Season
Celebrate the REAL Christmas Season
By Bill Dunn
It’s time to buck the trend this Christmas. It is time to resist peer pressure and be counter-cultural. I know that’s a hard thing to do. After all, I’m an expert on going along with peer pressure. I went to high school in the 1970s—also known as “the decade that fashion forgot.”
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Quit Using the Old Whine Skin!!
Quit Using the Old Whine Skin!!
By Elizabeth Thomas
Today was a strong day of testing, as it is when you strive to make Advent a true time of discipline and keeping Jesus alive in your daily walk.
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The Demise of Mystical Theology
The Demise of Mystical Theology
By David Torkington
It has always been believed that happiness depends on love more than on anything else.
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"Teachers" Gold for the Future
"Teachers" Gold for the Future
By Ralph Hathaway
When we yearn for understanding to whom do we seek? When the mysteries of life’s unknown confront our very minds, from where do the answers come? When the puzzles of everyday fragments the pattern of which direction we should search, who is it that brings the pieces together?
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My Advent Miracle: Each Year, I Am Replenished
My Advent Miracle: Each Year, I Am Replenished
By Mary Rivers
During early morning Mass, sometime in early December, I see a “miracle.”
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Sharing the Joy of Christmas through Simbang Gabi
Sharing the Joy of Christmas through Simbang Gabi
By BJ Gonzalvo
This Advent Season, you'll probably encounter the Filipino tradition of celebrating Simbang Gabi at your local parish. For many Filipinos, Christmas is a very exciting celebration and we tend to go all out in our expressing our faith, our joy, and excitement during this time of year.
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Jacques de Jesus; a little-known Hero from the Holocaust
Jacques de Jesus; a little-known Hero from the Holocaust
By Larry Peterson
He was born in Normandy, France in 1900 and he was named Lucien Bunel. His dad, who was a deeply humble man and dedicated himself as much as could to helping others, was an inspiration to his son and young Lucien felt the call to the priesthood.
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Immaculate Conception
Immaculate Conception
By Carol Monaco
From the moment of her conception, Mary was clean and pure with no stain of original sin. There were no barriers, no obstacles in her humanness to hold Mary back from saying yes to God. By giving herself completely to God, we are given the hope of redemption and salvation.
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Jesus Spoke to Me. A Personal Adoration Testimony
Jesus Spoke to Me. A Personal Adoration Testimony
By Joe Donovan
“I have been here waiting for you, Joe. I remember you so well before the world tainted your heart and your innocence expired in a yesteryear so far from today.
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One In Christ
One In Christ
By Tanya Janoski
Our culture is obsessed with labels. We have neatly packed individuals into boxes according to gender, political party, race, sexual preference, and all sorts of labels. Even more alarming is that we have assembled a box for those who refuse any identity what-so-ever-, and we are left to guess who or what they might be.
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