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All I want for Christmas is … Peace
By George Calleja
Once again it is Christmas time and many people are doing their Christmas shopping. There are different gifts one can buy to their loved ones. These gifts can be expensive or of a low price, large or small, gifts that can reflect the need of the person.
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God's Search-and-Rescue Operation
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Probably few people can imagine the frenetic lifestyle of my sister, who lived in a rambling three-story house, as a mother of eight children, who at one time were all under the age of 10.
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Advent Of Hope
By Kathy Lamb
I traveled to Seattle to spend Thanksgiving with my son, my daughter-in-law, my grandson, granddaughter and their family and best friends.
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Messages To Ourselves
By Mariel Roersma
We all have images of ourselves. Some days we love ourselves more than others. Some days we just don’t like ourselves. Our hair doesn’t look good, we feel fat, whatever it may be. It might even be that someone has said something bad about us.
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The Cheerio and the Sacred Heart of Jesus
By Eric Wojtkun
I cleaned up the mess of a 15 month old boy's self instruction in the art of eating, only to find an hour later I missed one more little crumb maker in a corner of the kitchen. I used to get mad at messes like this, but over the last year I've chilled out a lot.
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A Christmas present to the world… let the unborn babies live
By George Calleja
Another Christmas is here. Houses, shops, schools, churches, and streets are already decorated with different colourful lights. Parties are organised, presents are bought, sermons are prepared and buying the food for the Christmas meal is already being done. All this to bring joy to the world by remembering of the birth of Jesus.
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It's a Wonderful Life: St. Francis knows how to lasso the moon
By Rose Canavan
"It’s a Wonderful Life" is a Christmas classic through and through. The deep and uplifting message about the dignity and value of every human life is refreshing, heartwarming, and spreads holiday cheer at a faster pace that George and Mary’s Charleston.
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Why the Immaculate Conception Matters
By Rob Agnelli
Throughout the history of the Church, the challenge to orthodoxy of heretical teachings has always brought with it the fruit of a development in doctrine. Nearly every dogmatic definition has come when a particular teaching was challenged. At first glance however, the feast that we celebrate today, the Immaculate Conception, appears to be an exception to this rule.
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God Reveals Himself Through the Incarnation
By Bill Dunn
The late Charles Colson once wrote: “It’s true that most Americans profess to believe in God, but this God is a far cry from the God of Scripture. More than a century of naturalism has eroded our belief that God is providential—that is, in charge of all events.”
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Disney's Prep and Landing: The Christmas Elves of Advent
By Rose Canavan
It seems like everyone has been playing Christmas music and watching Christmas movies since Thanksgiving. So if you manage to hold off until Gaudete Sunday before pulling out the jingle bells, I applaud you. Society has been rushing into Christmas sooner and sooner each year, skipping over the all too necessary liturgical season of Advent.
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The Waiting Dilemma
By Helen Losse
Grasses brown beneath fallen leaves, but air is not really cold. Leafless tree-branches shower
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Post Election Trauma
By Samuel Matthews
After one of the most chaotic presidential campaigns in American history, the smoke is clearing but the fires are still burning. Across the nation, people continue to riot and protest out of a feeling of political impotency (well-deserved for the many who didn’t even vote).
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Evidently Catholic
By Barbara Golder
One of my random memories of childhood is meeting a friend of my parents who was Catholic. I must have been five or six at the time, and the only Catholics I knew were my neighbors, the Murphys.
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A Christmas Gift from a Bosnian Refugee
By Marie Murphy Duess
During Christmas of 2005, my family learned the true meaning of “home for Christmas.” It took a 22-year-old Bosnian refugee visiting the United States to teach us.
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Sympathy for the Devil and to Next Year in Cuba...
By Carlos Espinosa
On Christmas Eve 1978, as my great grandfather was in his final stage of life, we were gathered at my cousin's house in Chicago. Most of the family was there, at least those of us living in exile. I remember because that was the winter the great blizzard hit the Windy City shortly after we left.
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Good St. Nicholas
By Carol Ann Chybowski
Today (Dec. 6) is the feast of St. Nicholas, bishop of Smyrna, certainly one of the most popular saints celebrated in our Church, as well as in by the Eastern Church.
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Yes, Catholics Can Believe In Santa Claus
By Nate Lauer
Today, December 6th, is the death anniversary of Saint Nicholas, who passed on nearly 1700 years ago in either 345 or 352 A.D., yet Santa Claus lives on! Among Catholics and other fellow Christians, a great debate rages whether children should be introduced to Santa Claus or not, with strong arguments put forth from the pro and anti camps.
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