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Living a More Fulfilling Lenten Season
Living a More Fulfilling Lenten Season
By John Guest
Lent is a solemn time of the year for Catholics all over the world. It is a season in which we give up things that are not necessarily in their nature sinful but are pleasing to us and may tempt us to turn away from God and so Lent is a time for us to give up things we like for the purpose of turning our eyes, minds, hearts and souls to God.
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The Virgin Mary's Coming Triumph In Muslim Hearts
The Virgin Mary's Coming Triumph In Muslim Hearts
By Nate Lauer
On September 11th 1683, Vienna was besieged by Islamic Ottoman Turks. Christians throughout Europe prayed the Rosary in the midst of a desperate situation. At Vienna, vastly outnumbered European Christian forces miraculously and wonderfully delivered a crippling blow to Muslim expansion into Europe, preventing a grim invasion of the continent by Muslim forces.
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FINAL PASSION, CRUCIFIXION, and RESURRECTION?
FINAL PASSION, CRUCIFIXION, and RESURRECTION?
By Elizabeth Thomas
Wait, what is going on? Where are we now? Reading the headlines I am seeing all the pain, destruction, killing and suffering inflicted on the many—and why? Am I to understand that some zealots for God (Like St. Paul did) are thinking these brothers and sisters are infidels because they are followers of Christ.
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Cain't and Able
Cain't and Able
By Elizabeth Thomas
A long time ago, a perfect man and a perfect woman, became discontented with their perfect world and wanted more. So a very wise Creator—allowed more to come into their world.
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"These are the Times that try men's souls"
"These are the Times that try men's souls"
By Steve Reasbeck
"These are the times that try men's souls..." This quote by Thomas Paine seems more applicable today than at any time in my 60 some odd years on this earth. It is easy to see why, and it is easy to see the worry in the eyes of those around us. I see it in the teenagers that I work with in our parish, I see it in the eyes of everyday people that pay attention to what’s going on.
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Why the USA Must Take the Lead in the War Against ISIS Barbarism: It is the Right Thing To Do
Why the USA Must Take the Lead in the War Against ISIS Barbarism: It is the Right Thing To Do
By Larry Peterson
I sit here safe at 7 a.m. pecking away at the keyboard in front of me. My thoughts, for the moment, are focused on the words I make appear on the screen. A cup of coffee sits to my right . My freedom in America allows me to be a Catholic and practice my faith without interference (so far). So at 7:45 I will leave and go to Mass.
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I Forgot Myself
I Forgot Myself
By Bernice Pillart Dumitru
Did you ever hear someone say, “I’m sorry, I forgot myself.” It’s a strange statement but we all know what it means, we’ve acted in a way that contradicted who we think we are. If we say that we are Christians who have a personal relationship with Jesus, people who put God at the center of our lives, do are actions, the way we live our lives and the choices we make, express that?
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During the Lenten Season: Is Forgiveness for Anyone Who Asks? Apparently Not.
During the Lenten Season: Is Forgiveness for Anyone Who Asks? Apparently Not.
By Larry Peterson
Lent is here. I sit in front of this keyboard with the current memory of ashes smeared across my forehead. The season of Repentance and Forgiveness followed by Redemption is once again upon us. The ashes remind us of our mortality. We all know in our hearts that we will surely die one day.
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God's Plan for Your Life
God's Plan for Your Life
By Charlotte Ostermann
Ephesians Chapter One, Part Three Remember the scene in The Hobbit in which we see the vast pile of treasure guarded by Smaug, the dragon? That’s me in St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians – I’ve barreled in and now am wading knee-deep and slowly through a blow-your-mind pile of treasure!
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WHAT'S UP GOD!
WHAT'S UP GOD!
By Elizabeth Thomas
“God,” I ask, “what ever can I pray or say that I haven’t said before?” His answer, “whatever can you read that you haven’t read before in the Bible? Yet you find time and time again a Word with an entire new meaning that you read before.
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Saturday Toy
Saturday Toy
By Rhonda Altice-Jackson
My mom has a cousin, an only child, named A.J. As he was growing up, his doting father, in the midst of his weekend errands, would occasionally buy A.J. a gift. Not for any specific reason or holiday, but “just because” – a concrete expression of parental love.
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Mr. President, You Know, the Crusades have been over for 566 Years
Mr. President, You Know, the Crusades have been over for 566 Years
By Melanie R. Cameron
In 2012, during a Presidential Debate, President Obama infamously called Mr. Romney out on suggesting Russia as the "biggest geopolitical threat facing America" - his famous undercutting words were, "because, you know, the Cold War's been over for 20 years." The President suggested that it was wrong for a Commander-in-Chief to consider geopolitical threats based on past history.
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Examining Marriage in Light of Ephesians 5
Examining Marriage in Light of Ephesians 5
By Jason Izolt, M.Ed., M.A.T.
One of my favorite and one of the most basic documents regarding the basis for Christian marriage is Ephesians 5:21-33, “21 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24
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Recovering Catholics--Haters Gonna Hate
Recovering Catholics--Haters Gonna Hate
By Jen Schlameuss-Perry
My first (and probably last) blog to ever have a wide viewership was called “My Top Ten Favorite Excuses People Give For Not Going To Church (and my snarky responses to those excuses).” Not only did it get read way more than I could have imagined, it received more comments than I think worthy of it. Some of the comments were really nice and supportive.
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Dreams of Our Father God
Dreams of Our Father God
By Andee de Jesus
When we started to dream not for ourselves, but to share it to others, we put our hope, our faith on that great dream. And even though we got frustrated, got hurt, we never let that dream be taken away.
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Once A Great Nation "Under God" is Under Manipulation
Once A Great Nation "Under God" is Under Manipulation
By John C Prejean Sr.
In the past, little by little, we started to see our nation, founded by our forefathers with God as part of its foundation, starting to slip away from him. In more recent times it is starting to go further by leaps and bounds instead of sliding away little by little.
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Compassion vs compassion
Compassion vs compassion
By Linda Kracht
Recently I attended a debate arguing for and against surrogate motherhood — the act of contractually renting out one’s womb for to-be-parents. It takes about a split second of thought to realize that this newest way to technologically intervene/assist in the making of babies and parents is highly exploitable by one or all parties
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