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Junk Food or the Real Deal?
By Liz Galvano
Every day I meet a sea of people who come to see me where I work. All of them looking for what they’d like to eat for dinner that night. It amazes me that despite the wonderful heritage of great food the United States has, just how many of us would rather opt for quick and easy over something that might take a little longer and actually satisfy our body’s need for nutrition.
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Insecurity
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
The third-century bishop and martyr, St. Felix of Nola, trying to escape his persecutors, hid in a cave. Immediately a spider wove its gossamer web across the small opening, giving the appearance to his prying pursuers that the cave had not been recently occupied.
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Day 243 – The Rich Man and Lazarus
By David Vermont
Today we read Jesus description of the eternal fate of one rich man and one poor man. The poor man lay at the door of the rich man and wanted only the scraps of his table. However, the rich man never showed any charity to Lazarus. When they died, Lazarus went to “Abraham’s bosom” and the rich man to Hades.
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Can this Philippine Tradition Help Bring More Joy to Christmastide?
By Rexcrisanto Delson
Now that we are in the forty days of Christmastide season, expect to see an increasing amount of people lose the joy of Christmas. The first group of people is the secular folks who’ve already lost it, albeit a very superficial version of it. Many of them have already thrown out their Christmas trees, some as early as Christmas morning.
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Epiphany: Seeking—and Finding—Truth
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
Epiphany. Before I converted to Christian Catholicism, I knew the noun only as AHA! Something previously opaque suddenly made clear, like when I first began to understand the astounding complexity and compensatory ability of the human heart. But now the word Epiphany connotes an event.
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Do You Have a Devotion to Our Lady of Cana
By Larry Peterson
Looking toward the end of the first week of the new year, I noticed a feast day that made me take pause. It falls on January 6 and is called Our Lady of Cana. We all know about the Wedding Feast at Cana and how Jesus, at the request of His Mom, performed His first public miracle here. However, I had never heard it called the Feast of Our Lady of Cana.
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Gifts For Our King
By Carol Ann Chybowski
This carol is synonymous with Epiphany, and we sing it every year, at least the first two verses. It is natural to want to focus on the joy of the Nativity and the glory of Christ’s reign on earth.
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Epiphany: Are You A Thrill Seeker?
By Fr. Michael J. Denk
One of the best things about being a priest, especially when it snows likes this, is that late at night when I get into the parking lot, I have an entire parking lot in which to do “donuts”!
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Self-Confidence
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
As an epilogue to the remarks in the previous article, it is appropriate to explain how self-confidence is not per se in conflict with the virtue of trust. It is a psychologically desirable personality feature--the opposite of an inferiority complex--and it should be cultivated from the earliest childhood.
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Day 242 – The Prodigal Son
By David Vermont
Today, in Luke, we read three parables. The lost sheep, the lost coin, and the Prodigal Son. All three touch on the joy in heaven when a sinner repents. I would like to focus the most famous of the three, the parable of the Prodigal Son. As with many things in the Bible, particularly the parables, it is open to many interpretations.
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Christmas in Scripture- Part 2
By Joby Provido
In Part 1, we saw the humble birth of Our Lord as Joseph and Mary gave their lives for his coming. In this second and last installment, we will continue to see how Christ's coming was wrapped with trouble: a lesson for us that God's plans do not exclude suffering.
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Don't Stop at the Star
By Fr. Michael J. Denk
On this Feast of the Epiphany, as we hear the story of the Wise Men following the star and seeing Jesus with his mother Mary, we celebrate that through the Incarnation, God can manifest himself to us in a thousand ways at every moment of every day.
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Confidence
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Confidence and trust are almost synonymous, but not quite. Confidence usually bears the connotation of self-reliance or self-confidence, while trust as a supernatural virtue entails primarily a warm personal reliance on the Lord. It can be said that confidence is trust in self, while trust is confidence in God.
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Day 241 – The Cost of Discipleship
By David Vermont
The cost of discipleship is high! Jesus said: … “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:25-27
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Be the beautiful person that God created: You!
By Lisa Mayer
Let's talk about bullies. There's this saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." Yeah, that's just not true at all. Words not only can hurt, but they are often more damaging than actions. Actions stay outward, on our body. But words can come into our hearts and souls and wound us from the inside,
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Just A Mother: My Call, Vocation, and Witness
By Melanie Jean Juneau
The very existence of a joyful mother of nine children seems to confound people. Embracing an outdated lifestyle on a traditional, small, family farm has been a struggle through confusion, guilt, and even public condemnation. I finally reached the point where I can now shout loudly, "This is my call, this is my vocation, this is my witness to the world!"
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The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey and Epiphany
By Fr. Michael J. Denk
You may or may not know that the Author of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series was a devout Catholic (even one of his sons became a Catholic Priest). He was so Catholic that his faith poured out into his life’s work – The Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit is the Prequel to the Series.
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