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Four Strategies Satan Uses Against Christian Order
Four Strategies Satan Uses Against Christian Order
By John Horvat
A Christian order presupposes that we believe in Christ and His law. As a result, Christians organize all society in function of this law, and from this comes order and peace. A Christian society also presupposes a fight against evil and all those threats that attack the good order of society.
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Keeping a Mercy Calendar - Part Two
Keeping a Mercy Calendar - Part Two
By Bobbie Ann Taylor
In “Keeping a Mercy Calendar, Part Two,” we’ll reflect on keeping a Personal Mercy Calendar in order to see and appreciate God’s Mercy in our lives, so that we can get better at receiving mercy—as individual children of God and as members of the Church, the Communion of Saints.
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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 4: Encountering God, Continued
Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 4: Encountering God, Continued
By Bob Hunt
Here are more accounts of those who have experienced God in their lives, followed by a discussion of the impact of experiencing God on the brain. Can experiences of God be measured?
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A revolution of the heart will help us survive the newer normal
A revolution of the heart will help us survive the newer normal
By Jimmy Patterson
I’ve never forgotten the way the kids came home and huddled around the television on 9/11. We all did, I guess. In homes everywhere. Our kids seemed nervous — yet comforted that they were with each other, in their home.
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From Yearning to Coming Home
From Yearning to Coming Home
By Sandy Lowery
Until Divine Mercy Sunday of this year, I was a lapsed Catholic that was about as far as someone could get from the Mother Church.
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The Holy Family's Guardian Angels
The Holy Family's Guardian Angels
By Sherry Kenner
Before God created man, He created the heavens and all things visible and “invisible”. The angels were in existence long before man walked the earth. Throughout the Bible the angels are seen as messengers and protectors. They adore, glorify and praise the Creator. These angels play a vital role in the journey of mankind.
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A Rose From Heaven
A Rose From Heaven
By Rebecca Johnasen
In January, 2013, I prayed a novena to St. Therese, The Little Flower, for a special intention. As an answer to my prayers, I asked for a sign: white for yes, soon, red for no and pink, for yes but not now.
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December Funeral
December Funeral
By Sue Hallett
We went to a funeral yesterday, leaving home at 7 a.m. for the 11 o’clock service, driving out of town as the wintry sun gleamed on a road slick with frost. It was a memorial for a man we’d known most of his life. He’d been, in the cruel shorthand of family, a bit of a black sheep, a relative we saw infrequently, whose lapses of character were well known to us.
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The astonishing image of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The astonishing image of Our Lady of Guadalupe
By De Maria
You know the story, Our Lady appeared to St. Juan Diego and his uncle in 1531. She left this image as proof of the authenticity of her appearance and the Bishop was convinced. So, he had a Temple built upon the site of her appearance.
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I LOVE Christmas--No Matter What
I LOVE Christmas--No Matter What
By Larry Peterson
Turkey Day is over and now the 2015 Christmas odyssey is underway. My personal pilgrimage began Sunday at 5 AM, as I prepared my wife's medications for the week. There are fourteen different pills she takes at different times during the day for varied reasons and I do this every week.
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Let's Hear It from the Children!
Let's Hear It from the Children!
By Grace Mazza Urbanski
Last winter Pope Francis visited the Roman parish of St. Joseph. One of his remarks there was eagerly snatched up by social media: "Babies cry, make noise, go here and there. But it annoys me when a baby cries in church and there are those who say he needs to go out. The cry of a baby is God's voice: never drive them away from the church!"
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The Redeeming Work of the Holidays
The Redeeming Work of the Holidays
By Mary Ann Gambill
This work, family redemption, comes at a heavy price, often dipping into the pockets of what we thought family meant in the first place. In my early married years we would go to his parents house or mine. We would make the rounds. I would make a dish sometimes, but most of the time, we only brought ourselves, presents, and the one or two children that we had way back then.
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Advent and Kids: 10 Inexpensive Ways to Instill the True Meaning
Advent and Kids: 10 Inexpensive Ways to Instill the True Meaning
By Olivia Swyden
We are already about 1 week into Advent, and here I am finally trying to find fun and spiritual things to do with my kids to help them grow up knowing that Christmas is truly about the birth of Dear Lord Baby Jesus instead of Elsa the Ice Queen, candy, movies, mischievous elves, or whatever the hay it is they want Santa to bring them.
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Taking Baby Jesus on Retreat
Taking Baby Jesus on Retreat
By Karee Santos
For practically every silent retreat during the past fifteen years, I had been either pregnant or nursing. I had gotten used to rearranging the furniture in the tiny retreat house bedroom, so the baby could nestle safely between my body and the wall while we slept at night. This year, my sixth and youngest child had already turned five years old.
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The Beauty of the Catholic Mass: the Journey from "Feel-Good Experience" to Arrival at Substantive Faith.
The Beauty of the Catholic Mass: the Journey from "Feel-Good Experience" to Arrival at Substantive Faith.
By Robert E.J. Campbell
The Catholic Mass is in a word, beautiful. The perfect balance between Liturgy of the Word and Liturgy of the Eucharist, where we gather around the Lord's table and witness once again but forever anew, Christ's ultimate act of love and unimaginable sacrifice, all for the sake of each one of us and our own salvation.
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Where do we find the Immaculate Conception in Scripture?
Where do we find the Immaculate Conception in Scripture?
By De Maria
On this, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, I thought it might be appropriate to say a few words about this wonderful gift which God gave to the woman who would become His Mother.
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Hormones and Hair Shirts
Hormones and Hair Shirts
By Teresa Hurst
There’s no rational explanation why sometimes I will be in a deep, sleeping nirvana, and suddenly, bing, my eyes pop open, at which time my body calls it quits. All done sleeping. That’s been the case the last couple of nights. Hormones. It’s the menopausal ‘’crazy juice” coursing through my veins and brain that often cause me to operate a tad out of bounds.
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