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Parachute from Heaven Poem
Parachute from Heaven Poem
By Donna McMullen
I’m laughing up in Heaven at a scene that just unfold, It’s really a common one whose story must be told!
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Breeding Like Rabbits - Not the Catholic Way
Breeding Like Rabbits - Not the Catholic Way
By Leslie Shaw Klinger
Yesterday the mainstream press once again trumpeted a headline about Pope Francis. In what can only be described as gleeful and surprised tones, the main captions above pictures of the Holy Father speaking to the press midflight read "Pope says Catholics should not Breed like Rabbits".
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Looking for Christ on the Camino
Looking for Christ on the Camino
By Sharon Graham
To say that Martin was verbose would not do him justice. Chatty, talkative; you get the idea.Tall, good-looking and a very fit 70 year old, he came from Oregon and we met him on the Camino in Spain.
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"Do You Want To Be Well?"
"Do You Want To Be Well?"
By Elizabeth Thomas
Has anyone besides me ever read a line from John Chapter 5 and questioned the ‘question’ Jesus asked the man at the Pool of Bethsaida? “Do You Want to be Well?” Jesus asks a man crippled for 38 years. “Do you want to be well?” Duh, crippled for 38 years and He asks ‘do you want to be well?’
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Do All Dogs Go To Heaven?
Do All Dogs Go To Heaven?
By Nate Lauer
Recently my sister and her family went through an emotionally taxing time. They had to put their beloved 7-year-old Boxer, “Rookie”, down after it was discovered he had advanced cancer. It was devastating to my parents and I as well, who live only a couple blocks away.
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WATCH OUT!!
WATCH OUT!!
By Elizabeth Thomas
It is Tuesday, April 02, 2013, and one very interesting day. Some very strong obviously God’s watching, situations occured that left me feeling deeply loved and protected. It started out with a trip to see Bob’s pain Doctor for his right leg has been hurting really bad with sciatica type pain.
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Normally
Normally
By Mallory Hoffman
Normally... Normally, I don't wake up at 3:45 AM. 5:30 is my preference, but today I woke up very early. Normally, I eat sparingly for breakfast not wanting to blast my blood sugars into high gear so early. Yet, this morning, I cooked a full breakfast and enjoyed every bite!
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Young Men Need Strong, Masculine Friendships
Young Men Need Strong, Masculine Friendships
By Alex R. Hey
Recently, I was visited by a friend I had not seen in awhile. For the sake of anonymity, we shall call him "Robert." During his stay, we talked about the usual items two friends discuss when reconnecting.
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The Sin of Blasphemy is NOT "Free Speech"
The Sin of Blasphemy is NOT "Free Speech"
By Larry Peterson
Asia Bibi, a mother of five and a Catholic, languishes in a Pakistani prison. She has been there for five years. She waits for them to come and drag her to the gallows where she will be hanged by the neck until dead. Why? Because, to the Muslims, working alongside her in the fields, she was an "Infidel".
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This Is What Depression Can Do!
This Is What Depression Can Do!
By Elizabeth Thomas
For 6 months in 2014, I had been dealing with unknown illness and even the possibility of leukemia. One day I wrote this blog, as writing is very therapeutic for my soul. This is what depression does. Yesterday, mentally my brain did not seem to want to work, my mood was down and who cares what I do or do not do
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How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
By Michael Ripple
Almost every morning I enjoy the luxury of listening to my son practice his oboe. Starting at the break of dawn, like a morning prayer—Haydn and Tchaicovsky and some etudes by Barret echo in the winter dark through our house in the woods.
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Federal Government decides on Gay/Lesbian marriage
Federal Government decides on Gay/Lesbian marriage
By Carol Sanchez
Just a thought.... How many people understand what an Oath is? And how it differs from a contract?! A contract is an agreement between 2 or more people, where one promises a goods or service to the other, usually in exchange for something, right? Once that contractual agreement has been fulfilled they are through, end of contract.... But an oath is something much more serious, and much deeper.
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Context Is Everything
Context Is Everything
By Jen Schlameuss-Perry
When I was a little kid, I used to love listening to the stories that my great-grandmother would tell. She was born in Sicily in 1898 and had a very full, very interesting life. She was a tiny woman with a quiet voice and a very nostalgic heart when I knew her, and she was one heck of a story-teller.
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Destiny and the Blessing of Fathers
Destiny and the Blessing of Fathers
By Sr. Anne Marie
Deprivation can be an awful thing. There are many serious poverties in the world today. But there is one poverty that is perhaps too easily overlooked and yet has some of the most far-reaching effects upon destiny that one can imagine. This is the poverty that comes from the lack of blessing, and specifically the lack of a father's blessing.
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You Can Get Here From There: Part II -- CCD
You Can Get Here From There: Part II -- CCD
By Dean P. Johnson
I hated CCD. I hated it when it was on Saturday mornings. While other kids were lounging late into the morning still clad in their pajamas, spooning down a second bowlful of Capt. Crunch with Crunchberries as they watched Scooby Doo or Josie and the Pussycats or Inch High Private Eye or Hong Kong Phooey, I was sitting slumped in some Catholic school kid’s desk.
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God's Love Is The Best Beauty Treatment
God's Love Is The Best Beauty Treatment
By Judy Landrieu Klein
“Do you think it’s wrong to have a facelift?” a girlfriend asked as we sat on the beach house sofa in our pajamas, sipping coffee and looking out the window at the boats in the harbor. We were on retreat with a wonderful band of women, and as it frequently happens with women, the subject turned to beauty.
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Baptism Is A Wonderful (And Noisy) Event
Baptism Is A Wonderful (And Noisy) Event
By Bill Dunn
A couple months ago my wife and I had the honor of being the godparents for little M.J., the grandson of our best friends. The Baptism ceremony was delightful.
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