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Em
Em
By Sue Hallett
My 90-year-old mother has a dear friend, Em, whom she’s known since childhood. Em was the oldest of a large family and she assumed a great deal of responsibility for the care of her brothers and sisters while she was still a teenager. Her youngest brother is the same age as me, a generation younger than Mom and Em.
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Noisy Children at Mass
Noisy Children at Mass
By Bill Dunn
At Sunday Mass, young children will act up once in a while and make a lot of noise. I am, of course, using the definition of the phrase “once in a while” that means: “every single Sunday like clockwork right in the middle of the homily.”
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The New Made Up Legend of the Daffodili
The New Made Up Legend of the Daffodili
By Mallory Hoffman
When the world was newly created, and before God created man, the angels flew around the earth praising God for the beauty they saw in His creations.
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The Sacrament of Reconciliation: God's Heart of Mercy Beats in the Confessional
The Sacrament of Reconciliation: God's Heart of Mercy Beats in the Confessional
By Mallory Hoffman
When I was a kid, I stole a lollipop from the corner grocery store. It was a long time ago. That was when you knew the people who owned that little store on the corner, and they knew your parents.
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Because of You
Because of You
By Mallory Hoffman
Because of you, the world is a better place. Through you, people see the love of God in your eyes. People learn that violence is not the way to truth. They learn that truth is always truth and cannot be anything else.
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The problem with faith alone
The problem with faith alone
By Tony Jesse
The story has been told of a high wire expert who walked over Niagara Falls in front of a large crowd watching. To the amazement of all, he walked easily across the high wire to the next side. He then asked the crowd if they believed he can walk across the wire with a wheelbarrow filled with 150 pounds of potatoes.
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Quiet miracles: lessons learned in grief
Quiet miracles: lessons learned in grief
By Ginny Kochis
I was three years old the first time my father had open heart surgery, a quadruple bypass that saved him from a widow maker. My memory of that event comes from a photograph. We’re in a wheelchair outside the hospital’s main entrance, he with his trademark goofy grin and dark hair; me in a blue and white pinafore perched comfortably in his lap.
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Why I Am Not for Artificial Contraception
Why I Am Not for Artificial Contraception
By David R. Myers
Faithful Catholics – ones who do accept the Church’s teaching on artificial contraception – have different kinds of reaction. Some are shocked by the numbers. Others are scandalized.
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Mary's Passion Part 1
Mary's Passion Part 1
By James Berkon
A few weeks ago I had two ladies come visit my bar right before closing time. Not wishing to be rude, I served them. As I was cleaning up we started conversing about work and life.
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Meditations on Mercy - Sixth Sunday of Easter
Meditations on Mercy - Sixth Sunday of Easter
By Nancy Marie Murray
It’s hard to believe that God uses something as ordinary as marriage as a symbol of our eternal destiny, but that’s what we see throughout scripture. The second reading of the Mass for Sunday, April 24th depicts the Church “as a bride adorned for her husband,”
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The Consequences of Contraception
The Consequences of Contraception
By Shannon Whitmore
When my husband and I were preparing for marriage, we participated in a Pre-Cana weekend, a requirement for marrying in the Catholic Church. Over the course of three days, we covered topics ranging from communication to parenting, and of course, the dreaded ‘C word’- contraception.
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It's the Lord, He is Risen!! No Flies Here!
It's the Lord, He is Risen!! No Flies Here!
By Elizabeth Thomas
Did you ever notice that the Apostles had to have several visits from the Risen Lord to really get the message sunk in that HE IS RISEN!! HE IS ALIVE!!
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Luther and Romans 3:28
Luther and Romans 3:28
By De Maria
St. Paul says that unless one works and keeps the Law, one will not be justified by God.
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In the Magic of a Moment
In the Magic of a Moment
By Eric Wojtkun
In the magic of a moment we can see glimpses of heaven on earth. On this day when John Paul sat with his DjaDja (his Grandfather), I enjoyed watching this scene play out over 45 minutes.
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The Marriage Covenant
The Marriage Covenant
By Jonathan Hayes
I have many thoughts as I approach the beginning of my life as a married man. None are both simultaneously joyous and painful, though, as the question, ‘What can I, should I, and do I give to my future bride?’
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The Reason for My Hope
The Reason for My Hope
By Samuel Matthews
Where there is life, there is hope, or so the saying goes. But perhaps it ought to be that where there is hope, there is life, for without hope what reason is there to live? There is not a lot of hope in our culture of death.
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The Inconvenient Truth
The Inconvenient Truth
By Anne Gerard
In our society today, as throughout history, there is a delicate subject that deserves relearning in the eyes of God. That subject is human sexuality. This topic, as understood in the ways of the world, is contradictory to what we learn through scripture in the ways of the Lord. In giving us free will, God left our choices in all things up to us.
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