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Default of De Conscience
Default of De Conscience
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
A conscience-smitten tax cheat sent $500 to the IRS, adding that he hadn't slept well since he defaulted on his taxes in 1980. "If I don't sleep better now,", he added, "I'll send the rest."
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Pope Saint Felix IV, Definer Of Grace
Pope Saint Felix IV, Definer Of Grace
By Debra Booton McCoy
Felix is actually only the third pope of that name, the one known as Felix II being an antipope. A native of Samnium, which is approximately where the Province of Benevenuto is today in southern Italy, all we know of Felix's early life is that his father's name was Castorius. He may have been the Deacon Felix, whom Pope Hormisdas sent to Constantinople in 519 to try to negotiate the schism.
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Day 86 – Christianity is not good for business
Day 86 – Christianity is not good for business
By David Vermont
Paul is continuing his travels during which a situation develops in Ephesus. So many people are being converted that the business of manufacturing idols for people’s homes is dropping off. The silversmiths are starting to feel the pinch and become angry that their livelihood is being threatened.
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Lessons to Learn from Charlie Gard's Case
Lessons to Learn from Charlie Gard's Case
By Kim-Thérèse Lee
Charlie Gard is with God now. He is probably much better off than he would be here on Earth, with all the turmoil he and his parents went through. However, looking forward, there are some important lessons I think we can all learn from this case that was so widely discussed on a global scale.
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Rescue Drive
Rescue Drive
By Victor S E Moubarak
Jack lived a few yards down the road from St Vincent Church, just the other side of the Convent. One Friday evening he was waiting outside the Fish and Chips Shop just opposite the church when Father Ignatius joined the queue. “How are you keeping Jack?” he asked, “you look really miserable right now … just like a mile of bad road, I should say!”
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Be Your Own Bodyguard
Be Your Own Bodyguard
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
The Mayan Indians admired the looks of slightly cross-eyed people. To cause it in their own children, they hung beads close to their babies' faces. Deliberate and often grotesque deforming of the body has been common in many aboriginal tribes - and it is not altogether uncommon in the more "civilized" segments of some societies (including ours): tattooing, nose- and tongue -piercing,...
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Human dignity in its fullest recognizes humanity as made in the image and likeness of God.
Human dignity in its fullest recognizes humanity as made in the image and likeness of God.
By Troy Kroening
This reality truly puts humanity upon a pedestal. Not that we put ourselves there, but that we recognize that God put us there. With that comes great responsibility. If we are to respect, honor, and love God, are we not to do likewise for the image and likeness of God? One cannot expose a love for Jesus and diminish, destroy, or deny a picture of Jesus, the beloved.
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Day 85 – Confirming the Church in Ephesus and Paul's Apron
Day 85 – Confirming the Church in Ephesus and Paul's Apron
By David Vermont
Recall that yesterday we met Apollos, who was Jewish convert, a disciple, well versed in the scripture, eloquent and fervent in the Spirit. Despite all this there we are not told that he had any success in making converts.
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The forgotten Key, Our Eucharistic Lord
The forgotten Key, Our Eucharistic Lord
By Robert Atkinson, M.I.
The mission of the Church is to preach the Gospel, the good news! The above word picture of a pedestrian delivering the good, while beautiful and evocative, has little in common with the "New Evangelization" so prominent in the Church today! The great irony, as I see it, is summed up in the word pedestrian!
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What is Lost Must Be Found – So You See
What is Lost Must Be Found – So You See
By Elizabeth Thomas
Know that every human being from the moment of conception began to receive what would become the person and their personality that they are. Jeremiah 1-v 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you.”
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The "Laurel and Hardy" Principle
The "Laurel and Hardy" Principle
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Like ham and eggs, fish and chips, lox and bagels, or corned beef and cabbage, some things seem to be meant to go together. And that is true for persons as well - like a happily married couple, or close friends, or compatible business partners (see Ecclesiastes 4:9-12)
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Suffering - A Way to Redemption?
Suffering - A Way to Redemption?
By Ralph Hathaway
From the book “Discernment” by Henri Nouwen; “Pain and Suffering” are no longer obstacles to the glory of eternal life, they have become the inevitable way to it”.
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Day 84 – Apollos and explaining the way of God more accurately
Day 84 – Apollos and explaining the way of God more accurately
By David Vermont
Today we read more details of the growing evangelization mission of Paul. We see him growing Churches in two major cities, Corinth and Ephesus. Later, the letters he writes the Churches in these two cities will become part of the Bible.
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The Necessity of Regular Confession and Dependence on God's Mercy
The Necessity of Regular Confession and Dependence on God's Mercy
By Kim-Thérèse Lee
Confession is something that boggles the minds of many. Often the question comes up, “If we can confess our sins directly to God, then what need have we for Confession, for the Sacrament of Reconciliation?” – the question is not only asked by Protestants, but Catholics also.
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Don't Bash the Trash Collector
Don't Bash the Trash Collector
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Garbage collectors are somewhat taken for granted as they go about their malodorous task. But their importance becomes obvious when a city-wide garbage collectors' strike erupts; that's when the maggoty garbage piles up day after day, as flies and rats breed freely. If the strike is unresolved, the threat of disease sets in.
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Dialogue over the Question of Divine Justice.
Dialogue over the Question of Divine Justice.
By Ralph Hathaway
A question arose regarding the Theology of Divine Justice; as to how this makes sense and it brought up the essence of the Cross, Jesus becoming the very sin of humanity and dying to redeem us. If in fact all these events are real who is it that actually was on the Cross?
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Day 83 – Paul in Athens
Day 83 – Paul in Athens
By David Vermont
Paul’s preaching to the philosophers of Athens is unique and interesting. It shows that there is not just one way to preach the gospel and that the evangelist who knows his audience and tailors his message (without compromising the truth of course) is wise.
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