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Pope Virgilius, First Byzantinian Pope
Pope Virgilius, First Byzantinian Pope
By Debra Booton McCoy
Virgilius, born around 500 AD, was the child of an aristocratic Roman family. His father, Johannes, was an emperor-appointed consul, although only an honorific at that point. His brother, Reparatus, was a senator. And one of the senators taken hostage by King Witigis during the Gothic king’s rampages.
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St. Augustine's Confessions and My Quest for Greatness in the Confessional
St. Augustine's Confessions and My Quest for Greatness in the Confessional
By Alyson Borowczyk
Eight years ago, I was a twenty-three-year-old college student who had abandoned her Catholic faith for the sinfully self-gratifying lifestyle that seduces so many of us in our youth.
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Greeting the New Year---the Catholic Way
Greeting the New Year---the Catholic Way
By Larry Peterson
According to Georgetown University , as of October 2017, there are 1.28 billion Catholics in the world. 70.4 million of them are in the United States. The USA has a population of approximately 330,000,000 people. That works out to about 22% of the American population being Catholic.
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Process of Living
Process of Living
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Put on your thinking cap for a moment. Quickly, think of any number between one and ten. Double it. Add six. Divide by two. subtract your original number, the remainder is three.
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Day 249 – "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."
Day 249 – "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."
By David Vermont
Chapter 20, starts with the priests and scribes asking the Lord by what authority he teaches.
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The best person I know
The best person I know
By Lisa Mayer
I remember when I was growing up, a personal relationship with Jesus was the last thing on my mind. I hated going to Mass (yeah, you read that correctly), and I strictly avoided any type of prayer whenever I could. When I look back on it now, I really believe the reason is because I didn’t have any type of relationship with Jesus.
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Prayers of wants
Prayers of wants
By Tess Shore
Praying can be difficult at times. We think that we have it all together. We go to God. We tell God what we want. And somehow it magically appears. However, prayer does not work like that. Prayer is not going to Him with all our problems and concerns and somehow managing to come up with a grand answer.
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Self-Esteem
Self-Esteem
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
A witty but oxymoronic T-shirt quip reads: “I’m humble and proud of it.” That would be a profound theological statement, yet less witty, if it read: “I’m proud to be me, and humbled before him who made me to be me.”
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Day 248 – Jesus Predicts the Destruction of Jerusalem
Day 248 – Jesus Predicts the Destruction of Jerusalem
By David Vermont
In today’s reading, Jesus enters Jerusalem. He is greeted as a hero. The crowd wants to declare him a king. In the past, Jesus rejected these overtures and would slip away from the crowd. However, now the time has come to ascend to his throne. However, it will not be a crown of gold that he will wear, it will be a crown of thorns.
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Art Thou Reckless?
Art Thou Reckless?
By Fr. Andrew Kooi
Nowadays, I see more and more people driving at high speeds, especially on the highway (North-South highway, LEKAS highway (some of the many highways in Malaysia), doesn't matter. You get Formula-1 wannabes). The speed limit is 90 Km/h or 110 Km/h, depending on which highway one is using, but these people seem to be going much faster than the speed limit.
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The Mundane
The Mundane
By James Berkon
Don’t you get tired of it? The mundane? The same old, same old? The status quo? Sure, going to the bar and finding a girl to go to bed with has some sense of thrill and excitement to it. If it did not, why do it? Drinking to excess leaves all the cares in the world behind at least for now. Drugs offer an escape, though it is only temporary.
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The Whirlwind
The Whirlwind
By Anne Rose
One day I was sitting alone, working to pull out some kind of sentiment toward God. You know, trying to pray. Not the easiest thing to do when you are like a piece of bread left on the counter for the length of Advent.
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Disappointment
Disappointment
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
One frequent cause of disappointment, especially in our prayers of petition, is that God does not give us what we want, but what we need. “Your heavenly Father knows that you have need of these things” (Mt 6:32). In such a case, we are disappointed because our priorities may be misplaced and our value system inverted.
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Who are the Poor Among Us?
Who are the Poor Among Us?
By Ralph Hathaway
Read the four gospel accounts regarding the ministry of Jesus and you will find four distinct themes within the pages of His Life, reaching four different groups of people, all ready to receive God’s hidden promises, revealed in Christ, and realized in man (cf the Mystery of the Church - Col. 1: 24-26).
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Cross of a Different Kind: Cancer & Christian Spirituality
Cross of a Different Kind: Cancer & Christian Spirituality
By Prof. Anthony Maranise, Obl.S.B.
The city of Memphis (in Tennessee) sometimes gets a negative ‘rep’ from people outside her limits. However, if for no other redeeming quality (even though I believe there are many), Memphis itself deserves respect for being home to a continuous-miracle. In the heart of downtown rests our brightest beacon of hope: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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The Woman at the Well as Ecclesiological Type: Fornication and Idol Worship as Hyperbole of Protestantism
The Woman at the Well as Ecclesiological Type: Fornication and Idol Worship as Hyperbole of Protestantism
By Scott Pauline
In Part I, we looked at how the Old Testament North, which separated from God’s true Kingdom of Old, can be seen as a type of all Christian division, and not just heresy or just schism. Now we will probe further type of division in the Woman at the Well in the New Testament.
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Direction
Direction
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
There’s a cutesy axiom that says, “When you don’t know which way to turn, follow God’s directions: turn right!” It’s not enough, though, just to turn right; we must also “keep to the right.”
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