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Saint Simon Stock Audio Drama
By Traditional Catholic Guy
Simon Stock was born in 1165 in England. His family was not wealthy, but they raised Simon in the faith of Christ. He is one of the great Carmelite Saints, and his life is an extraordinary example of how God can make anyone his vessel to do great and wonderful things.
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Visions of Saint Philip Neri
By Joseph Freyaldenhoven
In St. Philip's time, the Church was at a low point. Renaissance had taken its toll on the spirituality of most religious in Rome. The Medicis controlled the College of Cardinals. Choice candidates became princes of the land, rather than of the Church.
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Visions of the Children of Fatima
By Joseph Freyaldenhoven
The precious children of Fatima, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco, have captured our hearts, as the brave trio who fought against all secular odds to keep a promise to Our Lady. She asked them to come to her on the 13th of each month for six months, in the year 1917; and against overwhelming odds, they said Yes!
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Why Good People Leave Our Church
By E.M. McCarthy
It has been a very difficult week. It's been eight weeks since I last attended Mass or received Holy Communion and ten weeks since I received forgiveness in Confession thanks to the pandemic. But this week in particular has been difficult for a different reason. My children's Catholic school is being closed.
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Preterism's Limitations: We Need to Move on to the Spiritual Ages
By Scott Pauline
The problem is, all positive stuff, sugar, and no horror. The Catholic preterist is great for the beautiful elements of Apocalypse: the Lamb, the Banquet, the Heavenly Jerusalem, the Holy, Holy, Holy, the 144,000, the great multitude, the incense, the saints, the 24 elders.
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Abortion: Child sacrifice to the god of ourselves
By Amelia Monroe Carlson
We are seeing a new level of child sacrifice like no other culture has ever experienced. For decades archaeologists and historians have uncovered evidence of child sacrifice rituals within various cultures throughout the history of the world.
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Living Cross of Limpias
By Joseph Freyaldenhoven
God is so powerful! He is involved with His children! The Lord works in mysterious ways, when He wants to make His presence known to His people.
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Archbishop Rodi on the Pandemic
By Mary Rivers
Archbishop Rodi on the pandemic: In all that we have been experiencing these past several weeks as a world, a nation, a church, and individually, a story I read as a young priest, about 40 years ago, keeps coming to mind.
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Frogs are not just for kids. It is deep stuff!
By Scott Pauline
Frogs are not just for kids. It is deep stuff The land is like a foundation. The sea is like chaos. You cannot build a house on the sea. It will sink. It will drown in chaos. There is nothing to hold anything together in the sea. Nothing. Only chaos and death.
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POPE BENEDICT III—DEALING WITH CONTENSIONS
By Debra Booton McCoy
Benedict, son of Peter, was born in Rome, somewhere between 790 and 810. He was a well-educated man, known for his learning and piety. Before Pope Leo IV died, he had raised Benedict to the level of cardinal-priest, assigning him to the church of San Callisto.
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Cremation or In-Ground Burial
By Ralph Hathaway
The news that a first cousin and her daughter had passed away wasn’t a shock, but entering the funeral parlor was. There before me were two urns containing the ashes of each one.
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Mindfulness vs Anger
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
Anger: enmity, ire, irritation, rage...we all experience anger but for many of us, the detritus of the emotion piles up over minutes, days, weeks and years and then what?
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Divine Mercy: What is it? How to pray it? (plus a FREE ebook)
By Amelia Monroe Carlson
“Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the fount of My Mercy.” The message of Divine Mercy began with a Polish nun in 1931 but it is ever more relevant in our world today. It’s a message with power and promise.
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His name was Devasahayam, and he was the First Indian Martyr. His Canonization has been approved. Date TBA
By Larry Peterson
He was born as Nilikandan Pillai* in 1712 in the southern part of the Indian sub-continent. He grew up serving in the palace of King Marthanda Varma, the ruler of Travancore in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu.
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St. John Joseph of the Cross*---a great Lenten Role Model: this humble Saint fasted regularly, slept only three hours per night-and led a life without any earthly comforts.
By Larry Peterson
His name was Carlo Gaetano Calosirto, and he was born on August 15, 1654, off the coast of Naples on the island of Ischia. From his earliest childhood, he demonstrated great virtue and self-denial.
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Rejected by two Religious Orders, she started her own. She became known as the "Mother of the Poor." Meet St. Angela of the Cross Guerrero
By Larry Peterson
She was born in Seville, Spain, on January 30, 1846. Three days later, she was baptized at the Church of Santa Lucia and given the name Maria de Los Angeles, which means Mary of the Angels. But they called her Angela. The child received her First Holy Communion when she was eight years old and her Confirmation at the age of nine.
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Divine Mercy and Prayer for Pandemic
By Kathy Lamb
COVID-19 has touched everyone. The whole world is united in suffering. It’s time to pray. “…have mercy on us and on the whole world.” What are your concerns?
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