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What if?
What if?
By Katherine V Urquidi
This last week marked the 50th anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae, written by Bl. Pope Paul VI. It was written as a repudiation of contraception and abortion, but the tone of the encyclical was decidedly more pastoral than doctrinal. What if doctrine had been stressed over pastoral matters?
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Marriage and the Water Mill
Marriage and the Water Mill
By Susan Skinner
As I was walking this morning and praying, talking to God, as I often do, an image kept popping into my mind. It was the image of a Water Mill. As you all know a water mill uses hydropower. It uses a water wheel to drive a mechanical process to produce the energy which can create milling, rolling or hammering.
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He Feeds Us in Ways We Don't Expect
He Feeds Us in Ways We Don't Expect
By Katie Zalany
When I heard the responsorial psalm this past Sunday, “The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs,” I struggled with it. Sometimes it doesn’t feel like God answers all our needs. Sometimes it feels like He’s not feeding us. If you've ever felt that way, this post is for you.
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The Seven Apocalypse Letters Revisited: a Renewed View of the Ages of the Church
The Seven Apocalypse Letters Revisited: a Renewed View of the Ages of the Church
By Scott Pauline
We have come a long way. We started by gazing at the sacred hand of Our Lord, holding the mystical seven stars. We asked ourselves, can this be merely seven literal early church Christian communities in Asia Minor?
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Walking With The Saints – Part 4
Walking With The Saints – Part 4
By Allison Brown
I was feeling pretty low and rotten. Completely exhausted from looking after a newborn, who didn’t want to sleep, and a toddler who decided she would throw tantrums every time I picked up the baby.
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Divorce, Abortion, Divine Mercy and the Womb
Divorce, Abortion, Divine Mercy and the Womb
By Susan Skinner
As I sat with my pregnant friend Ashley, who is nearing her due date for her baby son, I pondered the baby in utero. Remembering my own pregnancies, listening to the heartbeat of my children on the sonogram, in which I could also sometimes hear my own heartbeat.
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Who's Watching? Big Brother or Heavenly Father?
Who's Watching? Big Brother or Heavenly Father?
By Bill Dunn
These days we hear a lot about surveillance video. The technology has improved so much, there are now tiny security cameras everywhere. Police have dashboard cameras and body cams.
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Walking With The Saints – Part 3
Walking With The Saints – Part 3
By Allison Brown
It’s been made clear to me over and over again in the last 12 months or more, that I can place my trust in the capable hands of the Saints in Heaven.
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Holy Hatred
Holy Hatred
By Susan Skinner
A few months back I posted the above quote from Archbishop Fulton Sheen on my Facebook page. I was immediately barraged for promoting hate. How could I post something saying real love involved real hatred?
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How Samson and the Gate of Gaza foreshadow Christ and the cross
How Samson and the Gate of Gaza foreshadow Christ and the cross
By Joby Provido
Whenever the name Samson is mentioned, people will mostly remember Delilah who betrayed him by cutting his hair off to take away his strength.
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Walking With The Saints – Part 2
Walking With The Saints – Part 2
By Allison Brown
The following day, our mortgage broker spoke to Grant and told him he had approached the bank. The bank had changed their mind and had informed our broker that it was not required for our outstanding debts to be finalized for final mortgage approval by settlement date.
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Monday's are for Priests
Monday's are for Priests
By Susan Skinner
Today in Adoration I felt the Lord calling me to pray for Priests even more. He impressed upon me how they preach to us, especially on Sundays at Mass, and that on Mondays we, the laity, should be doing things for them.
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He is of Beelzebul!!!
He is of Beelzebul!!!
By Elizabeth Thomas
Recently I became very aware of a "problem" within our Church. We have some traditionalist Catholics who strongly believe that Vatican II was not good, and that Pope Francis is not the Pope. Oh dear! More troubling to me was they are being very public about these beliefs.
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Walking With The Saints – Part 1
Walking With The Saints – Part 1
By Allison Brown
If there was ever a Saint that could make the seemingly impossible happen, it had to be St Jude. At the beginning of the year, we had decided it was time to put our house up for sale and move on to a bigger, more spacious home for our growing brood. This was before we found out that I was pregnant again, expecting baby number 8.
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The Command of True Love and Innocence
The Command of True Love and Innocence
By Susan Skinner
I have spent a lot of time reflecting over the past year on the Fall of Man and the chaos it brought into God’s ordered world.
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The Call to Be Poor
The Call to Be Poor
By Flávia Ghelardi
In our consumer society, the word “poverty” has a very negative connotation. Nobody wants to be poor, everyone strives to have a better life, to earn more money, to have more social status. But then how to understand Jesus’ call to poverty?
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Chalcedon and the Condemnation of Nestorianism
Chalcedon and the Condemnation of Nestorianism
By William Hemsworth
The Council of Chalcedon took place a mere twenty years after the Council of Ephesus. Its impact on Christology and doctrine is one that cannot be understated.
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