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Purgatory: What's It All About?
Purgatory: What's It All About?
By Steven R. Hemler
God respects the free will of people on earth. We can consciously choose what to do and how to do it. But since the beginning of time people have used their free will to choose sin. It is the misuse of human free will that leads to moral evil, like greed, envy, lust, lying, gossip, anger, pride, etc., in our world.
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What Does An Old Priest Do In Retirement?
What Does An Old Priest Do In Retirement?
By Father John A. Dane
There comes a time when a priest retires … well, as much as a priest can retire given the acute shortage these days. But a time does come when for reasons of age and or infirmity, a priest is no longer able to be active in parish life and when that happens, the priest moves out of the presbytery to begin a new phase of his ministry.
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I asked Jesus to break my heart everyday…and he does!
I asked Jesus to break my heart everyday…and he does!
By Kathy Lamb
When I returned to college not too many years ago I was required to read a book for class, “What Do Jews Believe?” In his chapter on prayer David Ariel says something about praying with a broken heart. It wasn’t the most significant thing Ariel had to say about prayer but the idea of praying with a broken heart affected me
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Christianity Afflicts the Comfortable
Christianity Afflicts the Comfortable
By Bill Dunn
There’s an old expression that says the purpose of Christianity is to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
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The Labor of Obedience
The Labor of Obedience
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
Obedience: For many years, the word was a lightning rod to me. The concept connoted all that I disliked about being female: Powerless, submissive, conformance, passivity and the like. But then I became a Christian Catholic and a few years later, an Oblate of St. Benedict.
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Witness to the Church
Witness to the Church
By David Vermont
Recently, at Bible Study we read John chapter 5. When reading this Chapter most people instinctively focus on Jesus healing of a man on the Sabbath. It’s a miracle so it naturally draws our attention and we know that “working” of the Sabbath is one of the things that inflame the Pharisees and turn them against Jesus.
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The Font in the Fields: The Liturgical Movement Alive in Rural Kentucky
The Font in the Fields: The Liturgical Movement Alive in Rural Kentucky
By Anthony Cecil, Jr.
Often times, I’ve found that people are surprised to discover that summertime for a seminarian isn’t two and a half months of vacation. Most of the time, we are assigned to parishes, hospitals, or other sites for ministry internships, which take up the majority of, and sometimes all of, our summer breaks.
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Catholics Could Change the World, if They Would Only be Truly Catholic
Catholics Could Change the World, if They Would Only be Truly Catholic
By Lorrie McNickle
If we as Catholics would actually start living our Faith genuinely, trusting the Church as the representation of law and the guidance of Christ here on Earth, and made ourselves subordinate fully and wholly to God, we could change the world, overnight!
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Family Is the Heart of Vocation
Family Is the Heart of Vocation
By Jennifer Elia
The family is the very core of Creation. In the beginning, the LORD, Our Father, spoke the words of creation, which were sent forth by the Spirit, the Holy Spouse, in order to bring forth life. All creatures were brought forth into families--male and female together for the propagation and rearing of offspring.
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JPII and Chick Flicks
JPII and Chick Flicks
By Rob Agnelli
The man who would become Pope St. John Paul II, Fr. Karol Wojtyla, devoted much of his pastoral work as a priest to the study of love between man and woman. His reflections grew to full maturity during the series of Wednesday Audiences that would become the Theology of the Body.
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Caught Not Simply Taught, Then Swept Into The Heart of The Church
Caught Not Simply Taught, Then Swept Into The Heart of The Church
By Melanie Jean Juneau
Christianity is above all an experiential faith, a living relationship with Christ. A Christian is not a person who merely accumulates intellectual knowledge about God nor simply fulfills tradition and the letter of the law. Pope Benedict and Pope Francis have repeatedly emphasized that Christianity is an encounter with Jesus.
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Everyone Follows a Pope
Everyone Follows a Pope
By Adam Crawford
In a previous post I answered the question, "Do you follow the Pope or Jesus?" If you haven't read it yet, I would suggest taking a moment to do so now so that there is no confusion moving forward; but for those of you who don't have the time, here's a brief summary. When asked, "Do you follow the pope or Jesus?" my answer is an unqualified "yes" for the following two reasons:
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Does Loyalty Exist Anywhere Anymore?
Does Loyalty Exist Anywhere Anymore?
By David R. Myers
I remember some years ago reading a story about a young man who, when he was still in his teen years, had a bed-wetting issue. In an attempt to break him of the habit, his frustrated parents took his wet bedsheets, hung them in the front yard, and made him sit among them with a sign which stated “I wet the bed.”
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Leave it all behind, even if only for a minute.
Leave it all behind, even if only for a minute.
By Fr. Bede Camera, O.S.B.
We can’t do that, can we? Just up and leave everything: fishing nets, homes, family, friends, career, hobbies, interests, concerns, fears, hopes, preoccupations, obsessions, weaknesses of body, soul and spirit, habits, thoughts, emotions, medical conditions, mistakes, regrets, resentments, grudges, finances, knick knacks, furnishings, computers, cell phones, accomplishments and sources of pride,
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The Sin and Virtue Series, #6 of 8
The Sin and Virtue Series, #6 of 8
By Chick Todd
Today's paired topics are Avarice and Charity. You may have noticed in the table that footnote 3 lists two other words – Greed and Cupidity. Greed is a word we understand fairly well. We recognize it as an intense desire for money, or power, or food, or possessions.
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A Girl Named Ava Made Her First Communion This Morning.
A Girl Named Ava Made Her First Communion This Morning.
By Teresa Hurst
While that might seem to be a common enough occurrence, there were a few variables that set this occasion apart. She was a bit older than the usual age of seven for this Sacrament—she looked to be around thirteen years old. It’s also the end of summer and a normal, ordinary, run-of-the-mill weekday, instead of a select Saturday in May.
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Those Huddled Masses
Those Huddled Masses
By Joe Richard
We are in a time of crisis: Thousands of refugees, most of them from Syria, nearly all of them Muslims are fleeing the fighting going on there. They are seeking asylum. They are entering several European countries, and a good number of them want to come to the United States. But there are many Americans, most of whom call themselves Christian, who don't want them here.
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