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Prudence
Prudence
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
many a Christian has met with a disaster, not physically but spiritually, by relying on his or her personal feelings--often sincere but erroneous--rather than on the established norms of God’s revealed truth, especially as they are articulated by Christ’s Church, “the pillar and bulwark of truth”(1 Tm 3:15), with its Spirit-guided teaching (see Jn 16:13).
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Day 207 – Live Like You Are Dying
Day 207 – Live Like You Are Dying
By David Vermont
There is a well-known country music song that exhorts us to “live like you are dying”. The meaning, of course, is to implore us to appreciate that which we have around us. The moments big and small with family and friends that are the joys of life.
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5 Tips for Seeing a Shooting Star and Finding God in Dark Times
5 Tips for Seeing a Shooting Star and Finding God in Dark Times
By Fr. Michael J. Denk
Have you ever seen a shooting star? Every year in December the Germid Meteor Shower streams through the winter Sky with a fantastic show.
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Messy is Better
Messy is Better
By Veronica Ripp
It’s painfully easy for me to live life adjacent to people, parallel lives that appear to intersect, but never truly do. I hide behind walls of entertainment and tact. It’s far more messy to live life with people rather than adjacent to them. Actually caring about people is scary and letting them in is petrifying.
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Holy Ambiguity
Holy Ambiguity
By Katie Zalany
Are you searching for direction? Are you unsure of the next step to take? Do you sense a change or transition but aren’t sure what it is? Welcome to holy ambiguity, a place where those who walk the spiritual journey wait. In this place, God is calling you to greater patience and faith.
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Sorrowful Mysteries - The Agony in the Garden
Sorrowful Mysteries - The Agony in the Garden
By Deborah Burton
Heavenly Father, as in Jesus' example, we all have to walk in our garden of Gethseamni. How great is the anguish of these moments, knowing what is eventually to be for a life we so love. It is not so much the end of the journey that is so excruciatingly painful, but the path to that end, which overflows our eyes with tears and leaves us so "sorrowful unto death."
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Grinch in a Law Book
Grinch in a Law Book
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Imagine skipping the entire Christmas season for one year. Now imagine it for 22 years! Starting in 1659, that was show long the celebration of Christmas was against the law in Massachusetts.
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Day 206 – The Obligations of the Law are Cancelled
Day 206 – The Obligations of the Law are Cancelled
By David Vermont
In today’s reading, Paul comes back to a question that consistently arose during the early church. The issue was whether Gentile converts were first obligated under the Jewish law.
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What Is the Nicene Creed?
What Is the Nicene Creed?
By Bill Dunn
At every Sunday Mass, right after the homily, the entire congregation stands and, reading from a missalette or pew card, recites in unison the words of the Nicene Creed, which begins, “I believe in one God…” The Creed is the declaration of faith for Christians. It is a summary of the doctrines taught and believed by the Church for 2,000 years.
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Maranatha - Advent 2017
Maranatha - Advent 2017
By Ralph Hathaway
This year as Advent arrives, at a time of unrest and worldly distress, our hope is more than ever needed to inflame the minds of each soul. I remember a dream some time ago where the sounds and sight of bombs were going off in the not too far distance. “They are getting close” I said and upon waking still saw the vividness and fear of a future we may face.
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Oops! A Boo Boo in What Was Said
Oops! A Boo Boo in What Was Said
By Fr. Andrew Kooi
One day after celebrating the morning Mass, a couple approached me and asked me to pray over them because it was their wedding anniversary. The wife requested me to pray especially for her because they were already married for 5 years, and despite many attempts, they had not been able to conceive. I prayed over them as requested, and wished them all the best.
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Bereavement
Bereavement
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Think for a moment of one of your loved ones who has passed away, and recall the grief you experienced at the funeral. Give yourself a numerical score for your grief at that time, on a scale from one to one hundred. Now think about the death of a victim of terrorism that you read about recently, and give yourself a “grief score” for that tragic event.
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Day 205 – What is lacking in Christ's suffering?
Day 205 – What is lacking in Christ's suffering?
By David Vermont
Today we start the book of Colossians. Written sometime from A.D. 60 to 62, it was written to a Church that Paul had no prior relationship with and probably didn’t know.
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Personal Prayers
Personal Prayers
By Deborah Burton
Our Father, who are in Heaven...and on this earth, right beside us, right now.. Hallowed by Thy name...from which everything came to be in birth to death, simply by Your Word...
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A Daughter's Thoughts #boyslivesmatter
A Daughter's Thoughts #boyslivesmatter
By Leslie Shaw Klinger
In the wake of the latest sex scandal, I was struck by the hypocrisy of Hollywood and by the response of Woody Allen. His throw away line about hoping this does not turn into a Witch Hunt could have been valid if not for his qualification: he hoped that a man who simply winks at a woman in the office doesn't end up arrested.
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A Spiritual Wreathe for Advent
A Spiritual Wreathe for Advent
By Ralph Hathaway
As a suggestion for each family to establish their own in-home Sacramental using an Advent Wreath for each Sunday of Advent, the Church welcomes members to take part in the lighting and praying with the signs of hope, love, joy, and peace, in a world filled with doubt, hatred, sadness, and war at this time of waiting for Christ to come again.
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My Mother Chose Life
My Mother Chose Life
By Carol Schiebold
This story starts in early 1949. A 33-year-old woman, named Pat, discovered she was pregnant with her second child. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Her husband, Paul had been told upon discharge from the Navy that he would be sterile from having served as a Radar Man on a Destroyer in WWII. But God had other plans.
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