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Becoming Catholic Again – The Beginning
Becoming Catholic Again – The Beginning
By Petty Shackleford Brechin
I am a post-Vatican II, cradle Catholic. Twelve years of Catholic school and all the Sacraments I could receive. I was taught to pray and attended Church every Sunday. As soon as I left home, I left the Church. Why?
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My Journey Home To Rome
My Journey Home To Rome
By Annie Chester
My conversion story is anything but typical, and in it's original form is quite long, but I am going to explain it the best I can in the amount of words that I am allowed. To start off let me introduce myself to you, my name is Annie Chester and I live in a small town in Eastern West Virginia, with my husband, two kids and 4 dogs.
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Jesus Was Frustrated?
Jesus Was Frustrated?
By Elizabeth Thomas
Frustration! We all have felt it MANY times. I noticed though as I care for two clients who cannot express their words or feelings except by means of loud vocalizations, that when we are unable to get people to understand what we are trying to say—we get very frustrated.
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Four Greatest Gifts Parents Can Give to our Children
Four Greatest Gifts Parents Can Give to our Children
By James M. Littleton
What are the four greatest gifts parents can give to their children year-round? Certainly we have the obvious one, love. But how do we love? How do we manifest our love, this love which should be poured out as agape love, a love of total self-giving, a sacrificial laying down one’s life and complete pouring out of one’s own blood kind of love?
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End Side Chick Day!!
End Side Chick Day!!
By Joe Klaas
Last year, I heard about an underground "holiday" that takes place on February 15, called Side Chick Day. So you celebrate Valentine's Day with your husband or wife on February 14, then you celebrate Valentine's Day with the man or woman you're having an affair with the following day.
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Travel Mugs of Death
Travel Mugs of Death
By Jen Schlameuss-Perry
I don’t like surprises. I don’t like not knowing what’s coming. I like predictability (well, in life I like predictability, not in books, movies, or TV shows—that drives me nuts.), because I have trust issues… This is why I don’t use travel mugs. They aren’t trustworthy.
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Living a Catholic Lifestyle?
Living a Catholic Lifestyle?
By Robert Wolfe
What does it mean to live a Catholic Life? Answers to this question come in every form and shape. From just meeting the bare requirements of being Catholic, to living a life that would make you a Saint.
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Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective
Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective
By Julie Daniels
Adoption is a word that brings about many emotions and reactions, most commonly, abandoned or unwanted children. The truth about adoption is very different from the media portrayals and stereotypes. Birth-mothers, adopted children, and adoptive parents all reap the benefits of adoption. So why are we a culture that no longer encourages and promotes adoption?
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50 Beams of Light
50 Beams of Light
By Melanie R. Cameron
Some popular book made into a popular film claims to know what men and women really want in our deepest desires. Here are 50 shades of light - not only what men and women want in our deepest desires, but what we were made for in our deepest being. These excerpts are about true love and marriage from the Vatican Information Service posts over the past two years.
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4 Tips for First Time Moms
4 Tips for First Time Moms
By Ellen Mady
As soon as I got pregnant with our first, advice started pouring in, and never stopped. I got to know what my parents, in-laws, friends, relatives, neighbors and local cashiers think about parenting. I appreciated a lot of the advice, and could have done without some of it as well.
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We are Called
We are Called
By Lori Conklin
I am one of millions of cradle Catholic’s who had no idea of the richness of the Faith. Good thing God doesn’t require us to be experts; only willing. It wasn’t until I was pregnant with our first child that I realized how much I didn’t know about my Faith.
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Healing through a New Language
Healing through a New Language
By James M. Littleton
I would like to discuss briefly something that is so necessary to our spiritual, emotional, and psychological health, but which has been virtually obliterated in the current culture in which we live. I call it Healing through a New Language. We need to reclaim this essential part of our lives, because God made us to incorporate this beautiful language into our lives.
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A Peter Pan Society
A Peter Pan Society
By Jennessa Terraccino
Peter Pan is in the air and on-air these days, from NBC’s “Peter Pan Live” last December, and an upcoming movie, “Pan,” set to release July 2015. What does the resurgence of this 110-year old tale say about society today? To find out, shall we join Peter Pan and Wendy in ever-enchanting Neverland? Take flight and go, “Second to the right…and then straight on ‘til morning.”
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The Lover's First Concern
The Lover's First Concern
By Kara Klein
A long time ago I met a man who was everything I wanted and more. He had the perfect job, background, faith, intellect and personality for me. But (drum roll please!)… He could not have cared less about me if he tried. For months I could not get away from this guy. I would see him everywhere, and he would avoid me like the plague. Yet despite how he treated me, I could not get him off my mind and
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Bride of Christ? or Bridezilla?
Bride of Christ? or Bridezilla?
By Melanie R. Cameron
Let me start by saying, I reject the term "Bridezilla." It isolates, insults, and altogether judges a woman who is preparing to receive the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony and preparing to give the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony to her future spouse. In no way, shape, or form does the term "Bridezilla" reflect a bride's calling to marriage.
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What are the Stages of Faith Development?
What are the Stages of Faith Development?
By Steven R. Hemler
I believe the four stages of Christian faith development, described by Rev. John H. Westerhoff in his book Will Our Children Have Faith, are quite enlightening and true. As we go through life, we may expand into (add-on) the needs and elements of the later stages, but only after the needs of the earlier stages are met. The stages of faith are like rings of a tree.
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Lenten 'Me' Time
Lenten 'Me' Time
By Michelle Watkins
I recall my days in parochial school vividly. One such recollection is preparing for the Lenten season. Number-two pencils in hand, we sat in our desks and scribbled out our Lenten resolutions in our best attempts at cursive writing. We thought of the things we held dear: watching cartoons, eating chocolate, riding our bikes......these were the things we'd sacrifice.
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