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Keeping the "C" in CYO Sports
Keeping the "C" in CYO Sports
By Kevin Kennedy
One of the nicest notes I received from someone during my years of coaching at the CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) level was from a teacher at the Catholic school where my son attended. “Coach,” it said. “Thank you for keeping the ‘C’ in CYO for the boys.”
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Family Trauma: Responding With Control or Love
Family Trauma: Responding With Control or Love
By Melanie Jean Juneau
In the past six months, my large family of eleven has been tested by multiple traumas; we have been bombarded with illness, cancer and subsequent treatments, a threat of a premature birth of our fifth grandchild and a traumatic birth, celebrated the birth of a fourth grandchild, suffered with a daughter cracking under a combination of duress and post-traumatic stress, commiserated and...
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Living in Love
Living in Love
By Loretta Myler
“Mommy, How do we know that we are worshiping the One True God (and some other people don’t)?” This is the question my son asked me the other day. It’s a really good question. He’s seven years old and was studying the Ten Commandments, which talk about not worshiping false gods.
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"It is Finished"
"It is Finished"
By Tiffany Germain
Many people have always speculated what Jesus meant when He said in His last breaths, “It is finished.” It must have been pretty significant for Him to take that much effort to gasp those words being encompassed with pain. I can imagine myself cooking and proclaiming, “It is finished everyone!”
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Love The Resident Alien
Love The Resident Alien
By Carol Paur
I caught myself whining the other day. We're in the middle of a few home improvement projects. Where is my book? Why is the ladder here? Do I really have to wash all the walls? Where's the spackling? As I was feeling sorry for myself, I began to ponder the plight of people forced from their homes due to violence and war.
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The More I Know the Less I Understand
The More I Know the Less I Understand
By Steve Reasbeck
You know, this faith thing is confusing, sometime. Once you see the practice of it, and the more you make an effort to practice it, the more confused one gets. The more you learn about it, i.e., the Saints, Church History, etc., the more you realize how little you really know.
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Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Waste Our Lives for Jesus
Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Waste Our Lives for Jesus
By Tara K. E. Brelinsky
Shortly after having given birth to my first darling daughter and fourth child, someone suggested that I seek employment working with special needs children.
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Communication
Communication
By Catherine Garrett
How many times have you heard a friend, a relative, or even yourself say "We just grew apart" when speaking of a friend or spouse or family member? It's always so tragic hearing this and it makes me wonder, Why?
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My Jesus in the Garden
My Jesus in the Garden
By Jenny Collier
We all experience times, when our minds take control of our hearts. Many years ago, I went through a period of intense worry. All details aside, suffice to say, I was overwhelmed. Life as the mother of two boys, under the age of 2, was ripe with challenges.
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Encouragement through substitutions
Encouragement through substitutions
By Catherine Garrett
Two days ago I tried my hand at a bread recipe. I didn't have evaporated milk though, and so I substituted Greek yogurt. I also wanted apple cinnamon bread, so I rolled out the dough and sprinkled my apples, cinnamon and brown sugar over it, rolled it up and put it in the bread pans. One of the loaves is already gone- eaten- which tells you how good it turned out!
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A Father's Legacy to His Children Was NOT What It Seemed
A Father's Legacy to His Children Was NOT What It Seemed
By Larry Peterson
This book celebrates family and the Catholic priesthood. It deals with alcoholism, abandonment, pride, forgiveness and death. Yet, makes you smile in between
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My grandfather's path in Mexico's crisis
My grandfather's path in Mexico's crisis
By John Rieping
My grandfather Higinio Lozano, son of Trinidad and Gorgonia, first saw the light in Atotonilquillo in the Mexican state of Jalisco on Jan. 11, 1897. His only sibling, 2-year-old Reynalda, died later that year, but eight more would be born in time.
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Matrimony - Journey To Heaven With A Mate
Matrimony - Journey To Heaven With A Mate
By Flávia Ghelardi
Today´s post is to think about our own marriage, but also for those who have kids who are dating and thinking about getting married, so you can help to instruct them to the path they are preparing to follow.
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Teaching Kids to Give
Teaching Kids to Give
By Trish Stukbauer
Children seemingly are born with naturally generous hearts. From a very tender age, they are continually bringing you little treasures – a carefully chosen rock, a freshly picked flower, or frequent hugs.
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Christendom the Revelation
Christendom the Revelation
By Nathan James Rawlins
A shared revelation is a shared reality. Christendom as revelation connects the individual to the community and the communities of believers to each other. Encountering Christ in the collective knowledge of community embodies the very purpose of community formation, we must build the Church!
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How to Help a Friend Who is Hurting
How to Help a Friend Who is Hurting
By Dawn Wright
What can I say, what can I do, when I have a friend who is really hurting? Without warning, my family’s world capsized in October 2014. Unexpectedly and tragically, we lost our 12-year-old son.
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Veronica
Veronica
By Mallory Hoffman
The day was stifling as Veronica began to walk to the well to bring water home to her husband and children. The sun was just rising in the east. The sun was red as it began to rise.
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