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Are you making time for the "daily bread"?
Are you making time for the "daily bread"?
By Josie Portz
Recently I was covering an adoration hour for my dad. I've had many of my own in the past few years or so, but it had been a while since I'd been, so it was really a treat. I prayed a chaplet, sang a few hymns (since we were alone), did some journaling, had a conversation with the Lord and at the end, I felt so grateful we'd spent that hour together, so I left with a "Thanks for your time."
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Question: Do Catholics Worship Mary?
Question: Do Catholics Worship Mary?
By Charlie Johnston
Catholics honor Saints (Holy men and women from throughout Church history) the first among these is the Blessed Virgin Mary. By calling Mary “blessed” we are only following the instructions of the Holy Spirit, as voiced through Mary herself in her Magnificat, “For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed” (Luke 1:48b)
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Part II - Lord of the Rings is a Catholic story?
Part II - Lord of the Rings is a Catholic story?
By Tony Jesse
In the first part of my article on Lord of the Rings, we look at the Catholic themes such as devotion to Mary, Confession, Exorcism, Eucharist, and the meaning of the ring. (See Part 1 https://tonyjesse.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/the-hidden-meaning-of-lord-of-the-rings/)
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Lessons Learnt at Home
Lessons Learnt at Home
By David Torkington
My mother taught me to say my Morning Offering the moment I woke up in the morning. But above all she showed me how to put it into practice by her own example. It wasn’t the little things that I noticed at first, but the big sacrifices that she made, that even I noticed. Like that terrible moment in her life when her own precious son, my older brother, died at the age of 22.
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Pope Saint Marcellinus, Builder Of The Early Church
Pope Saint Marcellinus, Builder Of The Early Church
By Debra Booton McCoy
It was a time of peace throughout most of the Empire. Diocletian had become emperor in 284. His policies stabilized the empire and put an end to the Crisis of the Third Century. He reorganized the government structure, established a policy of inaction towards various religions and tried to handle the inflation problem.
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Bring God Along on Your Next Vacation
Bring God Along on Your Next Vacation
By Lindsey Kettner
Each year, I eagerly await my vacations and count down the weeks and days as they approach. It’s a time for me to forget about my daily concerns and step outside of the schedule and never-ending list of to-dos that fill my days. For a few days, I leave behind my housework, my job, and anything that may be weighing on my mind.
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A Family's Peace Broken and their Lives Shattered Forever...
A Family's Peace Broken and their Lives Shattered Forever...
By Carlos Espinosa
Peace, tranquility, joy, love, contentment; just some of the emotions that may have filled the hearts of the Graves family, as they sat on the beach at Disney World's Grand Floridian Resort one night two weeks ago, while their 2-year-old son, Lane, waded in about a foot of water nearby.
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The Seduction Game's Approach Anxiety: A Catholic Man's Guardian Angel That Saves Him From The Casanova Complex And 2 Largely Ignored Personality Disorders
The Seduction Game's Approach Anxiety: A Catholic Man's Guardian Angel That Saves Him From The Casanova Complex And 2 Largely Ignored Personality Disorders
By Bruno Babic
If you’re a Catholic man and now wonder if you’ve ever experienced any symptoms of the Casanova complex, reading this entire article will help you learn not only that but also how you can safely avoid it or got out of it.
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Take and Drink
Take and Drink
By Bridget Colombini
I am in the middle of washing dishes from lunch when a knock sounds on my front door. No doorbell rings, rather a gentle and persistent tap is heard. I put my dishes aside and walk to the door. Upon opening it, I see a middle-aged man. I can tell from his unkempt beard and rumpled white polo that he has been on the road.
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A barrel of humanity
A barrel of humanity
By LaJuan Tallo
When my husband and I take a driving trip we usually end up eating at a Cracker Barrel. The same was true on our last trip. The restaurant was very crowded that day, and since I am not a big fan of crowds, I really dreaded going in. We were pretty hungry since we'd been driving for several hours, so I thought I'd suck it up and just go on in there.
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Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit and the Parable of 7 Unclean Spirits Applied to the 7-Headed Beast
Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit and the Parable of 7 Unclean Spirits Applied to the 7-Headed Beast
By Scott Pauline
In the Gospel parable of the unclean spirit who inhabits a house, the spirit is cast out and the house swept; then later, the spirit returns with seven others that are even worse than him, and the house is worse than when it started.
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The Catholic Church and the AR-15
The Catholic Church and the AR-15
By David Kamioner
When I joined The Church around my 35th year, coming over from Judaism, I joined because frankly it seemed the most aesthetically beautiful and intellectually coherent of the Christian faiths. And, notwithstanding regular pronouncements from the current pontiff on economic and environmental issues, it still seems to me to be the faith of Aquinas, Augustine of Hippo, Evelyn Waugh, etc.
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To not be understood but to understand
To not be understood but to understand
By Kaity Jones
I have always been drawn to this prayer as a kind of “how to live your life guide”. The first half draws me in; it inspires us to take the evil of this world, and be like Christ. Satan would love for us to believe that the world is all evil and hopeless, but Christ inspires hope and love. And we are meant to be the instruments of that love that we are capable of doing that.
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It's All Paradox
It's All Paradox
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
In the physics of spirituality, it’s all paradox. St. Thomas Aquinas put down his pen, never to pick it up again, after four-thousand pages of his great work the Summa Theologica. He had reached question 99 when he quit. And when asked why, replied, “…‘All that I have written seems like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.”
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Saint stalkers and what to do about them
Saint stalkers and what to do about them
By Elizabeth Hoyle
Maybe their names keep coming up in conversations about the faith. Maybe pictures of them, with quotes from their written works have been lighting up your social media feeds. Maybe your pastor mentions them in the homily or maybe you suddenly have the desire to learn more about them.
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The Creeds are proofs against Sola Scriptura
The Creeds are proofs against Sola Scriptura
By De Maria
The Creeds are concise expressions of all that Christians believe. There are three Creeds which are called “ecumenical” because they express that which all Christians should believe and even the Reformed Christians accept these Creeds.
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Oil of Love
Oil of Love
By Mary Rivers
Oil of Love, The sign of love, of charity
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