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St. Joseph Was Quite A Guy
St. Joseph Was Quite A Guy
By Dan Goddu
When Joseph learned that Mary was pregnant (St. Matthew 1:19-20), part of his dismay was based on her vow of perpetual virginity - "Mary! What do you mean you're pregnant? I thought you took a vow to be a virgin for life? I was planning to do this along with you!"
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Call Me Crazy
Call Me Crazy
By Michelle Watkins
One of the saddest sights for me is to see a Christmas tree dismantled and sitting curbside for pick-up on the evening of Christmas day. Call me crazy, but by 8 p.m. on the 25th I'm just not in the mood to box everything up and move on.
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Are you truly ready for Christmas?
Are you truly ready for Christmas?
By Christopher Brown
I'm sure that you all are in the swing of the Christmas Season. Your tree is up and decorated, cards and stamps bought and maybe at least half of them have been sent out. Out-door lights up and working? Your Nativity set placed under the tree or on a nearby table complete with baby Jesus?
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Advent Hope: The Pathway Through The Heart
Advent Hope: The Pathway Through The Heart
By Judy Landrieu Klein
God cut a highway right through Bernie Klein’s heart, an artery that could give him life. Not surprisingly, that’s where Love seeped in. “I died and I clearly remember it,” Bernie told me after waking up from a six-week coma brought on by a massive heart attack and subsequent multiple organ failure.
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The Homeless Man and True Christmas Giving
The Homeless Man and True Christmas Giving
By Sarah Mathew
He walked into the Cathedral with the others, each being invited to light a candle and bow down in prayer before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. It was a night of vigil; with soft music and songs of the love and mercy of the Lord.
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Christmas Spirit Lost, Christmas Spirit Regained
Christmas Spirit Lost, Christmas Spirit Regained
By Mishka Góra
There’s nothing like a Christmas ‘down under’ to make you dread the holiday season. Christmas traditions seem more like a perverse form of torture when it’s over one hundred degrees inside and out.
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Celebrating Our First Alzheimer's Christmas Together: Laughter Allowed
Celebrating Our First Alzheimer's Christmas Together: Laughter Allowed
By Larry Peterson
I guess the first time I realized that something was really wrong was about a year and a half ago. I have a bedroom I turned into an office and I was sitting at the keyboard clicking away. I sensed someone behind me and turned to see my wife, Marty, standing there. She had a strange look on her face.
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Suffering, THEN Rebirth with the Christ Child
Suffering, THEN Rebirth with the Christ Child
By Melanie Jean Juneau
I once asked a priest what my life would have been like if I had not suffered, if I had married a well-off dentist, had 1.25 kids and lived in an efficient, modern house. He put on a phony, pious face, put his hands together in prayer, and said in a high, mocking voice,”Oh, you would be a nice Christian lady, praising the Lord
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Modern Miracles
Modern Miracles
By Melanie Jean Juneau
The modern world heaps scorn on those who have experienced miracles. This cynical attitude simply serves to coerce most legitimate eyewitnesses into silence; only quacks speak out. As a result, of course, society’s prejudice is simply reinforced.
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Letter from an Ex-Priest (who doesn't have an agenda against the Church)
Letter from an Ex-Priest (who doesn't have an agenda against the Church)
By Michael Ripple
So it is our mutual experience of ‘leaving’ the ministry that has connected us. I’m not sure I would have listened to anyone when I left and so I feel a certain responsibility, that I not fail you or Jesus Christ—our High Priest. I pray to the Holy Spirit Who will guide our brief correspondence…
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Parents, the First Evangelists
Parents, the First Evangelists
By Grace Mazza Urbanski
Pope Francis has an evangelization prayer close to his heart this month: he is praying for parents. As the Pope puts it, "Pray that parents may be true evangelizers, passing on to their children the precious gift of faith."
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It's okay to be a Grinch When it Comes to Christmas
It's okay to be a Grinch When it Comes to Christmas
By Mallory Hoffman
"Maureen" is a self proclaimed "Grinch" when it comes to Christmas. She has a tattoo on her calf of the Grinch. She snarls a little bit when people speak of Christmas. She is a self proclaimed Grinch, after all.
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Living in the Present
Living in the Present
By Karl Erickson
If you're anything like me, you may have a soft spot for television shows dealing with the topic of time travel. I still enjoy watching classic Twilight Zone episodes because of the high quality of storytelling usually found in those programs--and the time travel ones are often some of the best.
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Tangled
Tangled
By Michelle Watkins
So far this Advent I’ve had the opportunity on two occasions to untangle strings of Christmas light bulbs. Precisely how the carefully looped mass of strings and fragile ceramic bulbs get into such a mess will remain a mystery forever.
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It's Not About You
It's Not About You
By Mishka Góra
“It’s not about you.” They weren’t the words I wanted to hear, but they were the words I needed to hear. After I recovered from my initial indignation – I wasn’t used to being spoken to in such a brusque and candid manner – I realised he was right.
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Suffering on the Job
Suffering on the Job
By Susan Skinner
This past birthday I noticed I have hit the age where my arms are not long enough to make the words I try to read legible. Things don’t look and feel the way they used to. I decided we needed to celebrate so as not to get depressed by the state of my body. My husband and I went to an expensive restaurant in town.
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I Love Christmas and I Will be Praying for all the Grinches who are Trying to Ruin it
I Love Christmas and I Will be Praying for all the Grinches who are Trying to Ruin it
By Larry Peterson
I love Christmas and the entire season that surrounds it. Christmas is about faith and love and goodness and sharing and giving and all of those things that fill the hearts of the vast majority of people around the world with a renewed spirit that can shine through even the darkest moments we may have experienced during the preceding year. Yes, I love Christmas.
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