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"Rejection of The Christ"
"Rejection of The Christ"
By Ralph Hathaway
As we approach the Passion of Christ our thoughts will be on the Agony in the Garden, the Scourging at the Pillar, Crowning with thorns, the carrying of his cross and being nailed to it. But that isn’t all. The obvious events with much suffering began centuries before his birth. Let us look at the historical beginning.
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"Come to Me All You Who are Weary!"
"Come to Me All You Who are Weary!"
By Norman Fulkerson
I witnessed a gut-wrenching scene when I recently entered an adoration chapel in North Carolina. Like the rest of the country, there were no Masses anywhere. Thus, this chapel served as a place for local Catholics to pray and make spiritual communions.
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Garden of Gethsemane, Mount of Olives
Garden of Gethsemane, Mount of Olives
By Mary Rivers
The gospels record Jesus and His disciples came here to pray the night before His Passion. Ancient broad leafed olive branches hid them from the soldiers who wanted to capture Jesus with open ground or even a cave to protect them from the elements.
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A New Era
A New Era
By E.M. McCarthy
There is time when suffering comes to everyone, whether it is physical, spiritual, or emotional. Most of us do not dwell on our own death, precisely because it would prevent us from doing our daily duty.
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Our Call to Be Hope and Light in Crisis
Our Call to Be Hope and Light in Crisis
By Katie Zalany
Recently I heard a beautiful song by Sara Bareilles with lyrics that clearly spoke to me of my call in the midst of this global health crisis: Be the hand of a hopeful strange A little scared but you're strong enough
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Listen to the Bells! Calling us to Mass.
Listen to the Bells! Calling us to Mass.
By Ralph Hathaway
The room was lighted by the Sun’s brilliant rays as I was awakened from the tumultuous ringing of the bells of St. Bernard Church. Time to rise and face the day as the reminder for Lauds (morning prayer) is calling me to prayer.
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Satan tried to give us The Darkest Sunday Ever ---Once again He Failed Miserably
Satan tried to give us The Darkest Sunday Ever ---Once again He Failed Miserably
By Larry Peterson
It is Sunday morning, March 22, 2020. What follows is simply this man pondering a morning that he never in a million years could have imagined happening. It is a Sunday morning without Mass. Yes, the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is nowhere to be found. Nowhere in my town, my county, my state, or my country is Mass being offered.
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10 ways to take advantage of quarantine with your teenager
10 ways to take advantage of quarantine with your teenager
By Amelia Monroe Carlson
The thought of quarantine with your teenager can be daunting. If we are all honest, quarantine with a teenager will result in one of two ways: World War III or a stronger family. Your actions will be the guide that determines the ending point. Here are a few suggestions for making the coronavirus quarantine your friend and not your foe:
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Solemnity of the Annunciation.
Solemnity of the Annunciation.
By Troy Kroening
The Annunciation is the announcement from the angel Gabriel to Mary about her conceiving the Son of God within her Womb. It also encapsulates her yes to God’s plan, sometimes called her fiat. But the solemn feast also includes the mystery of the Incarnation, God becoming human. God’s plan to save us from sin has begun.
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Meet The Pandemic Saints—The Church's alternative to the CDC
Meet The Pandemic Saints—The Church's alternative to the CDC
By Larry Peterson
The Catholic Church has patron saints for many causes. There are so many they even had to be alphabetized. Under the letter A, there are 23 named saints such as St. Agatha, the Patroness of bakers and nurses, and the great Augustine of Hippo, the patron saint of printers and brewmasters.
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Light in the Darkness
Light in the Darkness
By Nancy Marie Murray
Times seem especially dark right now. For the first time in the 2000 years of the Catholic Church, public Masses have ceased in Rome. Churches have closed their doors. In many dioceses, Masses have been cancelled - perhaps for the remainder of Lent, for Good Friday, for Easter Sunday. Many people around the world are already suffering from the Coronavirus, while the rest of us dread its possible i
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God in the Quarantine
God in the Quarantine
By Charles Fraune
As is evident in the social media posts and ventings and ponderings that appear on a daily basis as everyone hunkers down in some sort of quarantine mode, people are wrestling with the implications of the government reactions to the virus, the international economic downturn, and the potential destabilization of society as we have known it for the past many decades.
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Quarantine Rosary
Quarantine Rosary
By Amelia Monroe Carlson
Many saints throughout the ages have often recited the rosary in times of distress and trials. There is no time in recent history that the power of the faithful praying the rosary is needed more than now.
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The Devil in the Quarantine
The Devil in the Quarantine
By Charles Fraune
As we enter into this Quarantine, we must remember that the devil will not let this opportunity pass him by without seizing it for our spiritual destruction.
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Four Simple Principles to Cope with COVID – 19
Four Simple Principles to Cope with COVID – 19
By Kenneth D'couto
I write this article with a deep sense of longing to see the end of the tunnel that we are all facing around the globe with the COVID – 19 virus. My anguish has led me to churn my inner self to the understanding of the present moment of this time in history.
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Saint Roch Patron of Plagues and Corona Virus
Saint Roch Patron of Plagues and Corona Virus
By Joseph Freyaldenhoven
Family, the Lord works in powerful ways. What a time for St. Roch to come back into our lives than now, when the world is in the midst of an epidemic, the Corona Virus. St. Roch is the patron saint of plagues and epidemics, among other things.
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Making sense of the Covid-19 pandemic in the plan of God
Making sense of the Covid-19 pandemic in the plan of God
By Joby Provido
In the Old Testament, Job was a righteous man whose life became increasingly difficult after God allowed one calamity after the other to afflict him. His friends asked him if he had done something to offend God that might be the cause of his punishment.
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