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The Force Awakens: Ultimate Episode
The Force Awakens: Ultimate Episode
By Greg Schlueter
Anticipation has been building. This Friday the newest installment of Star Wars Episode VII: "The Force Awakens" hits screens around the world, promising to set box office records and define popular culture for the foreseeable future. What might that mean for Christmas? To Christians? In this Year of Mercy? In our present cultural circumstances?
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Christmas shopping? Consider BUYcotting--if you must buy!
Christmas shopping? Consider BUYcotting--if you must buy!
By Bobbie Ann Taylor
Given a myriad of options for how and where to spend our hard-earned dollars this holiday buying season—and all year, actually-- a recent televised news story about this group’s goal to identify and to encourage support for Faith-friendly companies made a lot of sense to me. I hope it makes sense to you, too!
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Mercy Door
Mercy Door
By Jen Schlameuss-Perry
In this Jubilee Year of Mercy, Pope Francis has called upon the Church to be a witness of God’s mercy to the world. Mercy is kindness that isn’t deserved. It’s forgiveness unearned. That’s what God’s love is all about. While on the cross, Jesus asked the Father to “forgive them, for they know not what they do.” (Lk 23:34)
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Islam: Ignorance is not Bliss….
Islam: Ignorance is not Bliss….
By David R. Myers
Unless you are related to Rip Van Winkle and have inherited his ability to sleep for years at a time, you know of the spread of Islamic terrorism that has plagued the world. I don’t need to reel off events for you. And naturally this has generated a lot of chatter…on television, radio, the internet, at work, church, etc.
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Keeping a Mercy Calendar - Part Two
Keeping a Mercy Calendar - Part Two
By Bobbie Ann Taylor
In “Keeping a Mercy Calendar, Part Two,” we’ll reflect on keeping a Personal Mercy Calendar in order to see and appreciate God’s Mercy in our lives, so that we can get better at receiving mercy—as individual children of God and as members of the Church, the Communion of Saints.
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Keeping a Mercy Calendar - Part One
Keeping a Mercy Calendar - Part One
By Bobbie Ann Taylor
For the last number of years of her life, my mother was primarily housebound—not because she was an invalid, but because my father was totally dependent on her care, and because she did not drive.
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Accepting Mary as Mother
Accepting Mary as Mother
By Bobbie Ann Taylor
Sadly ironic, isn’t it? Jesus in the Eucharist, Jesus’ Visible Head of the Church: the Pope, Jesus’ Blessed Mother Mary: three pillars of our Catholic Faith are equally three stumbling blocks to unity among all Christians.
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I LOVE Christmas--No Matter What
I LOVE Christmas--No Matter What
By Larry Peterson
Turkey Day is over and now the 2015 Christmas odyssey is underway. My personal pilgrimage began Sunday at 5 AM, as I prepared my wife's medications for the week. There are fourteen different pills she takes at different times during the day for varied reasons and I do this every week.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe, Caceres
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Caceres
By De Maria
The 12th of December marks the day that we celebrate the Apparition of Our Lady, to St. Juan Diego in Mexico in the year 1531. It is said that due to that apparition, 8 million pagan Indians turned to Catholicism. It is also said that this was to make up for the 8 million Catholics who had followed Luther into Protestantism.
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Today's surrender comes
Today's surrender comes
By Helen Losse
in the silent desert of midnight darkness, the quiet solitude of my own room, where temptations I must resist show up again, where not even the moon gives light to my unrehearsed prayer
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Our Blessed - and Blessing! - Mother
Our Blessed - and Blessing! - Mother
By Bobbie Ann Taylor
For a number of years, I had the grace of praying with an intensely faith-filled woman for whom English was not a first language, a perceived challenge on her part that God used, when I first met her, to open my eyes to another way of looking at Our Lady.
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A Year of Mercy?
A Year of Mercy?
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
Young parents of a six month old baby murder fourteen and injure twenty-two. Eight men, an ISIS kamikaze terror squad, dressed in suicide belts and armed with AK 47's mow down over one hundred thirty and injure 350 at the Bataclan Concert Hall in Paris. To date, there have been 298 murderous attacks by religious extremists in this year which has not yet ended. Why a year of mercy?
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One Scandalous Silent Night
One Scandalous Silent Night
By E.M. Wilson
So in case you haven't heard the show Scandal had an episode featuring the main character Olivia something or other (obviously not a viewer) getting an abortion to the tune of Silent Night.
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Here is How the Bible PROVES that Mary is the Ark of the New Covenant
Here is How the Bible PROVES that Mary is the Ark of the New Covenant
By Arnold Scott
Protestants tend to downplay the role of Mary in salvation history, emphasizing that the New Testament does not focus on her too much. Exalted titles for Mary, such as the "Ark of the New Covenant" appear to them as distracting from the centrality of Christ, and probably even blasphemous. But... What if I could PROVE that the BIBLE plainly teaches that Mary is the "Ark of the New Covenant"?
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Our Shepherd Among Us: Reminiscences and Reflections (Part Two)
Our Shepherd Among Us: Reminiscences and Reflections (Part Two)
By Justin Soutar
After leaving the White House on Wednesday morning, September 23, Pope Francis headed to St. Matthew’s Cathedral in downtown Washington, a beautiful and historic church whose unusual Romanesque architecture evokes an earlier era of Christianity.
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The Devil is Winning, and We are Paving his Way
The Devil is Winning, and We are Paving his Way
By Lorrie McNickle
The Devil is winning. He is becoming stronger and taking hold of this world. We are not even putting up a fight. We cave so easily because of our fear and lack of trust in God. We fail to act with mercy and compassion and instead exude a spirit of hatred, intolerance and bigotry toward our brothers and sisters in need.
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Happy Liturgical New Year!...Your Guiding Scripture Verse?
Happy Liturgical New Year!...Your Guiding Scripture Verse?
By Bobbie Ann Taylor
They—were honored participants in the weekday Mass that concluded their extended retreat experience. We—were noontime Mass regulars, privileged listeners. They, after the homily, were invited to share the verse that had guided their retreat experience. Verses, I suspect, that revealed much about where they were, had been, or wanted to be in their spiritual journey.
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