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My Mother was a Priest
My Mother was a Priest
By David Torkington
We were all shocked and shattered when my brother announced that he wanted to become a priest. It was not just that he wanted to become a priest, but he wanted to become a Cistercian priest. That meant that once he left home he would never return.
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The Secret Is In the Recipe!
The Secret Is In the Recipe!
By Elizabeth Thomas
One of the best lines from a movie came from "Fried Green Tomatoes." The Whistle Stop Café was known for it's Barbeque. It's sauce got even better after a man disappeared.
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The Child Separation we should be fighting against
The Child Separation we should be fighting against
By Rose Cuervo
(A doctor-friend wanted to share this in the light of the extreme abortion on demand bill in NY State.) I have handled human bodies and remains as a pathologist and this includes that in the earliest stage of life.
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Last in creation, first in intention
Last in creation, first in intention
By Faith-Full Writer
Lord God in heaven, many on Earth say “last in creation is first in intention.” By this, we mean that we stop creating when we’ve made what we originally set out to make.
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What if?
What if?
By Katherine V Urquidi
This last week marked the 50th anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae, written by Bl. Pope Paul VI. It was written as a repudiation of contraception and abortion, but the tone of the encyclical was decidedly more pastoral than doctrinal. What if doctrine had been stressed over pastoral matters?
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Marriage and the Water Mill
Marriage and the Water Mill
By Susan Skinner
As I was walking this morning and praying, talking to God, as I often do, an image kept popping into my mind. It was the image of a Water Mill. As you all know a water mill uses hydropower. It uses a water wheel to drive a mechanical process to produce the energy which can create milling, rolling or hammering.
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Walking With The Saints – Part 4
Walking With The Saints – Part 4
By Allison Brown
I was feeling pretty low and rotten. Completely exhausted from looking after a newborn, who didn’t want to sleep, and a toddler who decided she would throw tantrums every time I picked up the baby.
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Divorce, Abortion, Divine Mercy and the Womb
Divorce, Abortion, Divine Mercy and the Womb
By Susan Skinner
As I sat with my pregnant friend Ashley, who is nearing her due date for her baby son, I pondered the baby in utero. Remembering my own pregnancies, listening to the heartbeat of my children on the sonogram, in which I could also sometimes hear my own heartbeat.
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Walking With The Saints – Part 3
Walking With The Saints – Part 3
By Allison Brown
It’s been made clear to me over and over again in the last 12 months or more, that I can place my trust in the capable hands of the Saints in Heaven.
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Walking With The Saints – Part 2
Walking With The Saints – Part 2
By Allison Brown
The following day, our mortgage broker spoke to Grant and told him he had approached the bank. The bank had changed their mind and had informed our broker that it was not required for our outstanding debts to be finalized for final mortgage approval by settlement date.
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Walking With The Saints – Part 1
Walking With The Saints – Part 1
By Allison Brown
If there was ever a Saint that could make the seemingly impossible happen, it had to be St Jude. At the beginning of the year, we had decided it was time to put our house up for sale and move on to a bigger, more spacious home for our growing brood. This was before we found out that I was pregnant again, expecting baby number 8.
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The Call to Be Poor
The Call to Be Poor
By Flávia Ghelardi
In our consumer society, the word “poverty” has a very negative connotation. Nobody wants to be poor, everyone strives to have a better life, to earn more money, to have more social status. But then how to understand Jesus’ call to poverty?
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Prayer of the Beloved to the Holy Family
Prayer of the Beloved to the Holy Family
By Susan Skinner
I felt the Lord ask for a prayer yesterday on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart. Today on the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart, it was written.
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Contracepting Children Is Like Contracepting Christ
Contracepting Children Is Like Contracepting Christ
By Rose Cuervo
Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and prolific Catholic author spoke in Immaculate Conception, Tuckahoe, NY conference on Humanae Vitae on an incontrovertible witness.
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Not Devaluing The Person And Sex Is The Gift Of Humanae Vitae
Not Devaluing The Person And Sex Is The Gift Of Humanae Vitae
By Rose Cuervo
Listening to the talk of Fr. Donald Haggerty in the July 21, 2018 Immaculate Conception Church’s conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae made me somber on two points but I will get to that later.
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The Marriage Covenant written in our bodies
The Marriage Covenant written in our bodies
By Susan Skinner
***Warning*** I have written some graphic content in this piece. This is not for children. In my prayer, as I am sure many people have also felt, the Lord has impressed upon me the importance, to an overwhelming degree on my soul, of marriage.
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Why Humanae Vitae Was Right
Why Humanae Vitae Was Right
By Tony Jesse
Imagine a loving father has to leave his children for an extended period of time. He cares very much for his children and so before he departs he writes out careful instructions for his children to follow. The father communicates that if his directions are followed loyally, the children will flourish while he is away and as a result, become closer to him.
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