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Santa's Priority By Catholics Come Home
Santa's Priority By Catholics Come Home
By CatholicsComeHome.org
New Commercial from CatholicsComeHome.org Open your heart to the greatest gift of all. Is Jesus the focus of your Christmas season? Our souls must come home and seek the Savior first, knowing only Jesus can quench our heart’s greatest thirst. Come back to Mass and celebrate the holy Christmas season with your Catholic family. Welcome home.
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Gil Hodeges (1924-1972): A Roman Catholic "ALL-STAR"
Gil Hodeges (1924-1972): A Roman Catholic "ALL-STAR"
By Frank Lloyd
Gilbert Ray Hodges+ was a Roman Catholic Gentleman, Husband, Father and Family Man, a Combat Decorated U.S. Marine Veteran of WWII (At the Battle of Okinawa, serving with the 16th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion), a Brooklyn Baseball Legend and the Manager of the 1969 World Series Winning "AMAZIN'" New York Mets!
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Christmas Spirit Lost, Christmas Spirit Regained
Christmas Spirit Lost, Christmas Spirit Regained
By Mishka Góra
There’s nothing like a Christmas ‘down under’ to make you dread the holiday season. Christmas traditions seem more like a perverse form of torture when it’s over one hundred degrees inside and out.
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11 Fun Facts about Christmas for Catholics
11 Fun Facts about Christmas for Catholics
By Al Vargo
Some interesting facts about Christmas to get you in the spirit.
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Tangled
Tangled
By Michelle Watkins
So far this Advent I’ve had the opportunity on two occasions to untangle strings of Christmas light bulbs. Precisely how the carefully looped mass of strings and fragile ceramic bulbs get into such a mess will remain a mystery forever.
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A Christmas Story Wonderful Life Carol
A Christmas Story Wonderful Life Carol
By Bill Dunn
I love the Christmas season, especially the traditional Christmas movies. I’ve watched those old movies so many times now, they sort of blend together. Without a doubt, my favorite is the classic film with the young boy, Ralphie, who wants to get a BB gun for Christmas, but his Old Man is really frustrated because he works for a mean old miser, Ebenezer Scrooge,
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Follow the Star of the New Evangelization
Follow the Star of the New Evangelization
By Catholic365
In 1531, “ the ever virgin Holy Mary, Mother of the True God for whom we live, of the Creator of all things, Lord of heaven and the earth” came to an isolated Mexican hill ,Tepeyac.
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I Love Christmas and I Will be Praying for all the Grinches who are Trying to Ruin it
I Love Christmas and I Will be Praying for all the Grinches who are Trying to Ruin it
By Larry Peterson
I love Christmas and the entire season that surrounds it. Christmas is about faith and love and goodness and sharing and giving and all of those things that fill the hearts of the vast majority of people around the world with a renewed spirit that can shine through even the darkest moments we may have experienced during the preceding year. Yes, I love Christmas.
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What Gift Will You Choose?
What Gift Will You Choose?
By Michelle Watkins
Sadly, our society has skipped from Halloween to Christmas in one grandiose swoop of commercialism. This year the Black Friday crowds were down 11%. In part, economists tell us this is the result of stores being open on Thanksgiving and starting Black Friday sales even a week early. In the past, the Thanksgiving holiday was originally for family and gratitude.
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Is There REALLY a Santa Claus? Absolutely! No Doubt About It!
Is There REALLY a Santa Claus? Absolutely! No Doubt About It!
By Larry Peterson
Every year I put this out because it is proof that Santa Claus is real and loves children the world over and brings them gifts every Christmas Eve. How can I be so sure he is real? Well, the letter below proves it, even if it was written 117 years ago.
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Suicide Is Not Painless
Suicide Is Not Painless
By Sarah Aten
The world watched and waited with bated breath as Brittany Maynard bravely took her own life. The world cheered her 'death with dignity' act. Then some of us caught on to what we were cheering for. Suicide.
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The Truth? You Can't Handle the Truth!
The Truth? You Can't Handle the Truth!
By Jason Izolt, M.Ed., M.A.T.
As I watched the St. Louis County prosecutor discuss the grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown and the subsequent rioting that occurred, one movie quote stuck in my head, “The truth? You can’t handle the truth!”
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The War on Children
The War on Children
By Dennis McIntyre
56 million. Think about that number. If you had 56 million dollars, I bet your life would be a lot less stressful. If you had 56 million followers on Twitter or Facebook, I am sure you would be very proud as people would find you very interesting. I think in general, if people had 56 million of anything they would be relatively happy.
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Advent: A Special Season
Advent: A Special Season
By Bill Dunn
It is early December, which means we have entered a special and festive and joyful season. We are once again in the season of … Advent. Advent?! Who pays any attention to Advent anymore? Our entire American culture has been going bonkers for the Christmas season since about 2 p.m. on Thanksgiving afternoon
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What Are We Waiting For?
What Are We Waiting For?
By Carol Ann Chybowski
What has God promised us except His very own Self? In Jeremiah’s time, the promise was still far off. We are much luckier. For though we are waiting for the Messiah to come again in His glory, He is already here with us now. He waits with us, and if we take His hand in prayer, all things become possible.
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My Comfort Zone
My Comfort Zone
By Michael Adsit
It was a Sunday afternoon, the skies were gray with snow falling and the Alberta Clipper slowly nipping our region. While watching a football game in the living room, my spouse entered and kindly reminded me that Joy’s father passed away, and the funeral is in ten minutes. Still wearing my Sunday best, I quickly headed over to the church to pay my respects.
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Is Suicide Murder?
Is Suicide Murder?
By Karl Erickson
I'm fortunate that suicide has only touched my life a handful of times. When a colleague suffocated herself, I found that it helped in sorting out my thoughts and feelings on the matter to write a short story to explore the issue. Admittedly, those thoughts and feelings can be a little overwhelming.
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