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Would You Play Poker With The Devil?
Would You Play Poker With The Devil?
By Victor S E Moubarak
Would you play poker with the devil?
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Just Laborers!
Just Laborers!
By Elizabeth Thomas
Everyday-the majority of people everywhere-get up, get going, and start their day. We all go in different directions. We may be just laborers in the fields, or the factories. We may be teachers, Doctors, parents, lawyers, nurses, police or fire personnel, EMTS, janitors, cooks, servers, the military, farmers, mechanics ---- basically we are just laborers --- in the fields.
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Peacefulness
Peacefulness
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
There are countless people, not just gullible tourists, who are forever seeking the very best of everything that life has to offer. These unsettled souls never seem to experience peacefulness--which is a state of mind not to be confused with the peace described in the previous article.
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Day 218 – The Finding of Jesus in the Temple
Day 218 – The Finding of Jesus in the Temple
By David Vermont
One of the things I always try to do when reading this passage is put myself in the shoes of Mary and Joseph and try to imagine exactly how they lost Jesus on a trip to Jerusalem.
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Deus Caritas - God is Love
Deus Caritas - God is Love
By David Torkington
When Charles Dickens wrote, "God is love," on the workhouse wall, he was of course being sarcastic. He knew there was no love in that workhouse, as Oliver Twist was about to find when he begged for more gruel. Yet, Dickens was right; unlike any other religion, Christianity is founded on love, not on our love of God, but as St John insisted, on his love of us.
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What the h*ll is going on?
What the h*ll is going on?
By Jeff Gardner
One evening, a few months ago, I drove across town to pick up my sons after an event. On our way back home we were nearly forced off the Interstate by an erratic, aggressive driver. Flashing my lights and honking my horn to avoid a collision caused the driver of the other vehicle to smash on his brakes and weave in and out of traffic, all in an effort to force me off the road.
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Antsy At Adoration?
Antsy At Adoration?
By Anne Rose
Do you ever sit before the Blessed Sacrament and feel as if you want to eject from your seat? I mean, literally for me sometimes, it’s as if I have the engines of a 747 inside me, all revved up, ready for blast-off. I’m not going anywhere, just flying in place at supersonic speed with my insides exploding like shooting stars.
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Peace
Peace
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
A woman asked her friend how she could stay so calm in the midst of heavy pressures in her nerve-racking job. The answer was as simple as it was profound: “I’m too blessed to be stressed.”
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Day 217 – The Birth of the Lord
Day 217 – The Birth of the Lord
By David Vermont
Merry Christmas! Today we read Luke’s account of the birth of Jesus. Not surprisingly, there is a lot of important stuff.
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A Curmudgeon Smiles
A Curmudgeon Smiles
By Helen Losse
We are waiting in fall’s balance of color and decay, where one purple pansy survives in rotting leaves. Frost dusts the ground with silver.
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A Present That May Change the Presentee's Future
A Present That May Change the Presentee's Future
By Josef Bordat
Searching for last-minute Christmas presents your friends will like? So, what about a book?! "Great idea!“ I agree! Next point of interest: What kind of book should it be?
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Love God and do what you will.
Love God and do what you will.
By Lisa Mayer
This quote by Saint Augustine can feel too good be true. It's easy to somehow think that God wants us to suffer and bear it all for His will. Don't get me wrong, life can have a fair amount of suffering. And if there's anything we know, it's that bad things happen to good people. But to say that God actively wills us to suffer in order to follow Him is simply not accurate.
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Fortitude
Fortitude
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
In his book The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis provided an interesting insight into fortitude or courage, namely, that it is exercised only at the moment it is put to the test: “It is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the highest point of reality.
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Day 215 – The Annunciation
Day 215 – The Annunciation
By David Vermont
Today we read about the Annunciation of the birth of Jesus to his mother the Blessed Virgin Mary. There is SO MUCH in these verses that it is hard to get it all into one post. It also requires that I just sort of address the facts and skip the nuance.
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The Sorrow Mysteries - The Scouraging at the Pillar
The Sorrow Mysteries - The Scouraging at the Pillar
By Deborah Burton
Dear Jesus, You hung from that pillar for us and humbly accepted each painful lash of the whips until you did not have strength to stand. We stand before You with our bare souls striped with sin and ask Your forgiveness.
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The Fish With The Temple Tax Coin And Baptism
The Fish With The Temple Tax Coin And Baptism
By Scott Pauline
Temple Tax, Payments and Debt: Jesus Pays the Debt He does not Owe, but WE do! Interesting analogy with the temple tax Scripture: Matthew 17, closing paragraph:
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Witch Hunt. Fakes and Facts
Witch Hunt. Fakes and Facts
By Josef Bordat
One of the classics concerning anticlerical stereotypes is the so-called “witch hunt”, that the Church supposedly operated in the “Middle Ages” against allegedly “wise women” and with “millions of victims”. It is time to bring into discussion newer research results, which stand in sharp contrast to this opinion
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