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Day 347 – Seven Last Plagues
Day 347 – Seven Last Plagues
By David Vermont
Today’s reading for study: Revelation 15 In today’s reading, we see seven more plagues being prepared to be unleashed.
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God's Inclusive Exclusivity
God's Inclusive Exclusivity
By Bill Dunn
This week is labeled on the Church calendar as the “Fourth Sunday of Easter.” But we might as well call it “Politically Incorrect Sunday.” In the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, St. Peter makes a proclamation that has offended people for centuries—especially in recent generations when Relativism has reigned supreme in the popular culture.
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Why Men Need Women and Women Need Men (part IV)
Why Men Need Women and Women Need Men (part IV)
By Tony Jesse
As we've studied in the first three articles of this series ( I, II, III), God’s creation communicates that dissimilarities are profound because differences illustrate love in that one uses his opposing nature to serve the other to complete what the other is lacking while the other does the same in reverse.
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Christ-Focus in the Eucharist
Christ-Focus in the Eucharist
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Self-destructive patterns of failure can distort our spiritual vision in countless ways by subtly depersonalizing our relationship with Jesus. How can this out-of-focus Christianity distance us from Christ? There are many possibilities.
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Day 346 – The Harvest of the Earth
Day 346 – The Harvest of the Earth
By David Vermont
Today’s reading shows forth imagery from which we can make important inferences. First, it this passage, we see that the torment of the damned in hell will be eternal
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Right to Die?
Right to Die?
By E.M. McCarthy
Two legal cases dealing with the Right to Die are in the news with Pope Francis weighing in with the case of Alder Hey. The Pope said, “It's our duty to do everything to care for life.”
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Why Men Need Women and Women Need Men (part III)
Why Men Need Women and Women Need Men (part III)
By Tony Jesse
God always uses opposite natures in his creation. At the smallest level of the life in the atom, we see a proton (positive charge) and an electron (negative charge). 2 protons protract away from each other and 2 electrons protract away from each other. The only way the chemistry of life can take place is the attraction of these two opposite forces.
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Failure by Refusal
Failure by Refusal
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
More common than failure due to apathy or procrastination is failure through saying an outright “no” to the promptings of divine grace. The following little poem, titled “But I Didn’t" is a kind of examination of conscience for this type of failure:
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Day 345 – The Beasts and the Number of the Beast
Day 345 – The Beasts and the Number of the Beast
By David Vermont
In today’s reading, we see the Dragon and the two beasts.
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Come Holy Spirit!
Come Holy Spirit!
By Carol Monaco
Rejoice and be glad! Our Lord has kept His promise to us. He descended into hell and on the third day, rose again from the dead and ascended into Heaven. He has broken the chains of sin and has given a lifeline to His faithful by way of the Holy Spirit.
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Encountering the Church Penitent
Encountering the Church Penitent
By Ralph Hathaway
As one who spends as much time as possible praying for poor souls in Purgatory I thought of how these souls would appear in an encounter with the one praying for them. This question became obvious after a dream that seemed so real that its content must be written.
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Why Men Need Women and Women Need Men (part II)
Why Men Need Women and Women Need Men (part II)
By Tony Jesse
In her book, Delusions of Gender, Cordelia Fine puts forward a rather bold claim asserting that gender differences don’t really exist. Instead, the supposed differences between the sexes is merely a product of society. Is this true?
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Failure by Procrastination
Failure by Procrastination
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Procrastination is a pattern of failure through which the essential Christ-focus can be lost.
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Does God love Satan?
Does God love Satan?
By Amelia Monroe Carlson
God loves you. It’s a phrase that many have heard all their lives. Priests, pastors, and religious leaders across the world have taught about God’s infinite, unchangeable, agape type of love toward His creations. That love is for everything He has created and everyone. Lucifer is a creation of God. God created Him. God loves Him. God hates his actions.
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Why Men Need Women and Women Need Men
Why Men Need Women and Women Need Men
By Tony Jesse
Men need women and women need men. Right? This statement is part of the larger teaching in the theology of the body. Everyone understands how men need women to complete them. Only a woman can take a selfish beer drinking bachelor and make him a selfless hard-working father who looks out for his family. But what amount the statement that women need men?
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3 Ways Mary Undoes the Knots of Desolation in my Life
3 Ways Mary Undoes the Knots of Desolation in my Life
By Matthew Chicoine
Does your life seem confusing? Are you currently in a situation where there is no apparent solution? Sir Isaac Newton once said, “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” If that is the case it seems that life is lacking truth lately. Confusion, frustration, anxiety, and anger engulfed me over the course of the past couple weeks.
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Failure by Apathy
Failure by Apathy
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Apathy is a pattern of failure through which the essential Christ-focus can be lost.
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