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The Real Scandal
The Real Scandal
By E.M. McCarthy
It was the beginning of the AIDS epidemic during the early 1980s. I recently lost my mother to a car accident and my father was recovering from a head injury. I welcomed the chance to go on a retreat. It was organized by a newly arrived priest who taught at our Catholic high school and lived at our parish house.
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MONDAY . . . The Joyful Mysteries: LIVED
MONDAY . . . The Joyful Mysteries: LIVED
By Elizabeth Ambielli
In a previous submission, Mysteries of God Discovered! – I gave a brief history of the meditative prayers called the Rosary and wrote that in future submissions I would write of each of the 4 Rosary mysteries, Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, Luminous that are representative of the life of Christ while He walked the earth.
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Leadership is a Calling
Leadership is a Calling
By BJ Gonzalvo
Leadership is a calling. We may not have been born leaders but we are all called to lead. How we respond to that calling is what makes us leaders. Just like any other calling, we have to pursue it and act on it if it is really our desire to respond.
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Jesus and the Cross
Jesus and the Cross
By George Calleja
Do you ever dedicate time to reflect upon the episode narrating when Jesus died on the cross? Do you know that when Jesus died on the cross, He nailed all our sins to the cross and set us free?
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Following the Successor to Peter
Following the Successor to Peter
By Anthony S. Layne
I never marked the day on the calendar. I’m not even sure what year it was, although I’m almost positive it was before I moved from Nebraska to Texas. I do know that I was, to paraphrase Ambrose Bierce, of the faith in the sense that the church I wasn’t going to regularly was Catholic.
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They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Hate
They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Hate
By Joe Donovan
“They’ll know we are Christians by our hate”! I know that distinction may be over the top but it sure feels that way in today’s dialogue or social media outlets.
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Be joyful when you are persecuted
Be joyful when you are persecuted
By George Calleja
Spreading the Word of God is a very big challenge for today’s Christian. It is a challenge of spreading the Word of God throughout the world. This challenge, of being spiritual fulfilled for spreading the Word of God might also mean of facing persecution.
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Blessed Elena Aiello; Mystic, Victim Soul, and Founder of a Religious Order; She bore the Stigmata every Good Friday for 38 years.
Blessed Elena Aiello; Mystic, Victim Soul, and Founder of a Religious Order; She bore the Stigmata every Good Friday for 38 years.
By Larry Peterson
Elena Aiello was born in Cosenza, Italy, on April 10, 1895. She was the third of eight children born to Pasquale Aiello, a tailor by trade, and Tereseina Pagilla. Sadly and unexpectedly, Tereseina died at an early age, leaving her husband with eight children in his care.
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LOVE BEYOND ALL TELLING
LOVE BEYOND ALL TELLING
By Kathy Lamb
Dear Father Abel, Today you told us God’s love supports and sanctifies. You said, “be part of the vine to remain in Christ.” Also, something like, we don’t know how to share Christ. The goal is not to feel good about ourselves but to gather souls.
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A Dancing Dream
A Dancing Dream
By Elizabeth Thomas
I cannot remember the year this came, but I found this when cleaning out files on the computer. As we traveled in 2009/2010---to keep in touch with friends, a Sunday Sharing was started to my family and friend via email. This was one, and becuase of the recent blog about Pope Francis ---I knew that God had me FIND this, becuase it was to be shared again.
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Faith Adds Years to Your Life
Faith Adds Years to Your Life
By Bill Dunn
A recent study published in the journal “Social Psychological and Personality Science” found that people who are religious live an average of four years longer than people who have no ties to religion.
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Can Catholic Teaching Change? Five Things to Know
Can Catholic Teaching Change? Five Things to Know
By Leonard Wathen
In recent decades, it's been quite common to hear people ask questions like, "When will the Catholic Church change its teaching on birth control?" "Catholic teaching needs to change to be more accepting of the LGBTQ community." "Did you hear that the Catholic Church changed its teaching on the death penalty?"
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Death Penalty; Abolish it Now!
Death Penalty; Abolish it Now!
By Ralph Hathaway
The first thing I want to do is commend Pope Francis on his courage to call for the ancient and most inhuman act of violence we have accepted, to end. No doubt this article may bring contentious comments from some who advocate keeping the death penalty on the books and to look the other way saying; “this will deter heinous crimes”.
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The Happiest Day of my Life
The Happiest Day of my Life
By David Torkington
I was told that my First Holy Communion day would be the hap­piest day of my life. I found it difficult to believe that it could be happier than Christmas day or bonfire night, or a day out at the fun fair, but I was prepared to keep an open mind.
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What is Evil?
What is Evil?
By Lorrie McNickle
I recently came across a video clip of Father Donald Calloway discussing “ends and means” and “Harry Potter”. It was an awesome explanation of how bad and immoral means never justify an end. You cannot possibly arrive at a good end if you use unjust, immoral, and evil means to get there.
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Theology of the Crucified Body, Part II: Doubting Thomas and the Doubting Jews
Theology of the Crucified Body, Part II: Doubting Thomas and the Doubting Jews
By Scott Pauline
This article will attempt to argue another powerful dimension of the theology of crucifixion that is perfectly appropriate, and that is the notion that the five major wounds of Jesus image the States, or Way, of holiness and maturity both for the individual saint and the People of God historically.
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Towards the Mystic Way - Through Mystical Theology
Towards the Mystic Way - Through Mystical Theology
By David Torkington
Let us imagine that a person is able to attain their wildest dreams and become a multibillionaire, an adored pop performer, a Nobel Prize winner, an Olympic gold medallist, a musical or artistic genius of world stature, or a literary giant who humanity has placed in the pantheon of all-time greats.
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