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Words of Life for Cutting Words: A Catholic Response to Teens on Social Media Writing Sites, Part I
Words of Life for Cutting Words: A Catholic Response to Teens on Social Media Writing Sites, Part I
By Mark C. McCann
With more and more young people reaching out to one another through social media, there has been an increased call for new forms of ministry to teens within these virtual worlds. With the advent of public writing sites that allow for the free-flowing expression of ideas through poetry and prose, there is a greater potential for darkness to rear its ugly head.
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Come Away WIth Me
Come Away WIth Me
By Carol Ann Chybowski
In chapter 6 of Mark's Gospel, the disciples have just returned from a mission that Jesus sent them on. They were excited, and eager to tell Jesus everything that had happened, but they were also tired. Knowing their need for rest, Jesus invited them away from the crowds gathered round about them, to spend time alone with Him.
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Day 270 – The Presbyters
Day 270 – The Presbyters
By David Vermont
Today’s reading: 1 Ptr 5 My footnotes define “Presbyters” as “official appointed leaders and teachers of the Christian Community”. Many translations use the term “elders”.
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Pope Pelagius I, Trying To Right Wrongs
Pope Pelagius I, Trying To Right Wrongs
By Debra Booton McCoy
The popes of the early Dark Ages had an uphill battle trying to do anything. Pelagius was no exception. Born, most likely, in the late 400s, Pelagius was the son of a noble Roman family. His father, John, was the vicar of one of two civil districts in Italy. Therefore, Pelagius would have been well versed in politics and, probably, law.
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Prayer Is the Source of Strength
Prayer Is the Source of Strength
By Bill Dunn
In this week’s gospel reading, Jesus spent time at Simon Peter’s house. When the local villagers heard that Jesus was in town, they brought sick people to Him to be healed. It was non-stop work for Jesus, as a sizable crowd pushed and shoved around Him all day long.
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Deleting Sin
Deleting Sin
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
To elicit our response to his mercy more effectively, the Lord may present himself in many postures – for instance, as the Good Shepherd who seeks out and rescues his beloved lamb that has strayed into the brambles of sin. We can at any time bleat out our cry for help to our Good Shepherd and allow him to disentangle us from whatever thornbush into which we have plodded.
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Day 269 – Suffering Stops Sin
Day 269 – Suffering Stops Sin
By David Vermont
Today’s reading: 1 Ptr 4 Today we read one of the Christians proposed solution to the question as to why we suffer.
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Four Words Every Catholic Should Remember
Four Words Every Catholic Should Remember
By Elizabeth Ambielli
If you are a Catholic Christian you will want to read this article. Catholic Christians are very often the subject of rumor mongering with regards what it is we believe. This could be because a Catholic is not really much for talking about what they believe. Why is this?
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Sorrowful Mysteries - Crowning of the Thorns
Sorrowful Mysteries - Crowning of the Thorns
By Deborah Burton
Sweet, Jesus, how You humbly accepted unkindness, humililation, and torment as your torturers tried to remove your cloak of identity and cover you with false perception. You then accepted the piercing pain of a crown of thorns jabbed into Your sacred head.
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St. Raymond Nonnatus: Healing Prayers for the Divorced
St. Raymond Nonnatus: Healing Prayers for the Divorced
By Dr. Anne DeSantis
St. Raymond Nonnatus is a saint from the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy or the Mercedarian Order and was born in 1204 in Barcelona, Spain. He is called Nonnatus or “not born” referring to his Caesarean section birth.
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Repentance
Repentance
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Sincere change for the better is essentially an act of the will. There’s no mental action more demanding of trust than the act of sincere repentance. We trust the Lord to respond to our protestation that we’ve really changes, that we’ve made a “firm purpose of amendment” change as radical as a U-turn, which the early Greek fathers of the church called metanoia.
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Day 268 – Baptism Now Saves You
Day 268 – Baptism Now Saves You
By David Vermont
Today’s reading: 1 Ptr 3 Today Peter makes a statement that must seem strange to some.
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The Book of Life
The Book of Life
By Victor S E Moubarak
Have you ever wondered, what if ... what if the whole of your life is just a book. You do not actually exist, but you are a character in a book, and there is someone out there reading all about you and your life. Whatever you do, or did, in life, from the moment you are born, is written in this book which is being read right now.
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Read the Whole Bible in One Year
Read the Whole Bible in One Year
By Bill Dunn
During 2017, I did something interesting. I read the entire Bible, from Genesis 1:1 all the way through to Revelation 22:21. Back on January 1st, 2017, I downloaded a smartphone app that laid out a very specific daily schedule. By reading 3 or 4 chapters each day, the Bible can be completed in exactly one year.
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God's Poor Memory
God's Poor Memory
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
During the first days of his presidency, Calvin Coolidge stayed in a suite at the Willard Hotel in Washington, before he and his family could arrange to move into the White House. Early one morning he awoke to see a burglar removing a wallet and a watch chain from his trouser pockets. Coolidge told the burglar that those items were not that important to him, but he asked him not to take the charm
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Day 267 – Did you know that you are a priest…
Day 267 – Did you know that you are a priest…
By David Vermont
Today’s reading: 1 Ptr 2 In today’s reading, twice Peter reminds us that we are a new nation of priests:
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From Acquaintance to Friendship, From Discipleship to Intimacy
From Acquaintance to Friendship, From Discipleship to Intimacy
By Mary Rivers
Sitting around a fire is a tradition our family enjoys. Having no outside distractions promotes a closeness, an intimacy whereby our true self is developed.
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