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When Families Meet
When Families Meet
By Sr. Christina M. Neumann
One of the most common questions outsiders ask about religious life relates to our families. Do we still have contact with them? Do our relationships change, etc. Might I share the following reflections, originally published on Our Franciscan Fiat, on family in my life as a religious Sister?
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Greed, Selfishness and envy: Merry Christmas!
Greed, Selfishness and envy: Merry Christmas!
By Joe Richard
Greed, selfishness and envy, for too many of us those are the attributes we adopt during this time of the year. Every year, sermons are preached and articles written about how Christmas has lost it’s original meaning. We hear this lament and we shake our heads and say how true it is, but we don’t change our behavior at all.
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How to recognize Jesus when He comes this Christmas?
How to recognize Jesus when He comes this Christmas?
By Mar Camen
For Catholics, Advent is a period of four Sundays in preparation for Christmas. For some people, it seems like a long wait, but for the Jewish people it took approximately seven hundred years of waiting to finally have the Messiah among them.
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Messy is Better
Messy is Better
By Veronica Ripp
It’s painfully easy for me to live life adjacent to people, parallel lives that appear to intersect, but never truly do. I hide behind walls of entertainment and tact. It’s far more messy to live life with people rather than adjacent to them. Actually caring about people is scary and letting them in is petrifying.
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Oops! A Boo Boo in What Was Said
Oops! A Boo Boo in What Was Said
By Fr. Andrew Kooi
One day after celebrating the morning Mass, a couple approached me and asked me to pray over them because it was their wedding anniversary. The wife requested me to pray especially for her because they were already married for 5 years, and despite many attempts, they had not been able to conceive. I prayed over them as requested, and wished them all the best.
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A Spiritual Wreathe for Advent
A Spiritual Wreathe for Advent
By Ralph Hathaway
As a suggestion for each family to establish their own in-home Sacramental using an Advent Wreath for each Sunday of Advent, the Church welcomes members to take part in the lighting and praying with the signs of hope, love, joy, and peace, in a world filled with doubt, hatred, sadness, and war at this time of waiting for Christ to come again.
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My Mother Chose Life
My Mother Chose Life
By Carol Schiebold
This story starts in early 1949. A 33-year-old woman, named Pat, discovered she was pregnant with her second child. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Her husband, Paul had been told upon discharge from the Navy that he would be sterile from having served as a Radar Man on a Destroyer in WWII. But God had other plans.
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The Benedictine Option
The Benedictine Option
By Mishka Góra
In a world seemingly gone mad, where situations formerly inconceivable have become a reality, seclusion – also unthinkable once upon a time – has not only become alluring, but within the realm of possibility.
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Miscarriage Ministry and W.O.M.B. program
Miscarriage Ministry and W.O.M.B. program
By Julie
Our parish at Mater Dei Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form) is creating a new ministry titled Michael's Miscarriage Ministry. I am hoping to at least participate as much as possible.
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Walking with God in Covenant using Covenant Principles
Walking with God in Covenant using Covenant Principles
By Susan Skinner
As you all know, I have been learning from Jansen Bagwell about Kingdom. He has now taught us a little bit about Covenant and Covenant Principles. I really hope Jansen writes a book because this is about how to live the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.
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Five Misconceptions Surrounding Catholic Teen Fiction
Five Misconceptions Surrounding Catholic Teen Fiction
By Leslea Wahl
I adore Catholic YA novels, in fact, I’m a writer of Catholic teen fiction. However, I have to admit that I’ve been guilty of believing some of these myths myself. The fact is, I never planned to be a Catholic writer for teens. My surprising journey began when my own kids were searching for YA novels and I was shocked and dismayed at the choices that were prevalent in mainstream literature.
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When the Bells Chimed
When the Bells Chimed
By Michelle Nicholl
It was a beautiful Sunday morning and when Grace awakened -- it was only because she heard the sound of bells chiming in the distance as she always had in the past. The little church on the corner -- that only held about twenty people at one single time -- was loudly chiming for all to come hither and celebrate another new day -- through the celebration of the Mass.
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Avoiding the Greatest Controversy
Avoiding the Greatest Controversy
By Greg Schlueter
The only controversy I really want to avoid is having to face my Maker at the end of time for controversy I avoided-- for failing to speak the truth with love,
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Oh Holy Host!!
Oh Holy Host!!
By Elizabeth Thomas
One of the greatest events that just occurred in my life was yesterday the 9th day of November this 2017. My sister had asked me to take a dear friend to the eye doctor on the 10th. She also asked me if I minded giving her Communion as she had not been able to give it to her this week.
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We've Forgotten How Great It Is To Be a Catholic Woman
We've Forgotten How Great It Is To Be a Catholic Woman
By Melanie Jean Juneau
It is difficult to be a woman today, especially a Christian woman. It’s no wonder Catholics are confused about who they are. The Church boldly declares feminine traits are part of a woman’s core identity, deeply rooted in their souls, not just apparent in their physical appearance. Saint John Paul II, in his letter On the Dignity and Vocation of Women, explains God created women to be different
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Halloween, Harvey Weinstein and Playboy Magazine...
Halloween, Harvey Weinstein and Playboy Magazine...
By Carlos Espinosa
I often tell my daughters, "If you dress like a piece of meat, you're going to be treated like a piece of meat."
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Would I Know You Were a Christian?
Would I Know You Were a Christian?
By Katie Zalany
I was at a recent conference and one of the speakers posed a thoughtful question: If I were to look at your bank account, would I know you were a Christian?
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