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My 4,357th Second Chance
By Chick Todd
"PLEASE, just give me one more chance! I know I can do it!" How many times have we heard that one? And how many times have we thought, "What difference does it make? You're a hopeless case."?
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When The Bachelor Becomes A Leper
By Amy Alexander
A recent discussion I had with an unbelieving family member went something like this: Me: Citing the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church on a moral matter, and saying that I will teach my kids the same thing. Family Member: Really?! I thought you wanted them to be part of the Church in name, only, and then to do their own thing in their lives.
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The Madonna of the Holocaust and The Presence of Christ
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
This painting is shocking. As soon as we recognize precisely what the artist, Franciscan Brother Mickey McGrath has painted, we feel disquieted- even to the point of turning away, closing our eyes. Upon reading what Brother Mickey writes about his painting, our sense of disesteem increases.
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It Takes Great Faith
By Jean Smith
I recently attended a three-part Lenten Retreat led by Father Thomas Dragga, pastor of The Church of the Resurrection in Solon, Ohio. This is a reflection on his talk at St. Clements’s Catholic Church that I attended last week.
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"Hate" The Most Heinous Evil we face
By Ralph Hathaway
“Tree of Life Synagogue, Squirrel Hill, Two Mosques in New Zealand, A Black church in Charleston, South Carolina”, to name a few where innocent worshipers were gunned down because of hate.
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How is it going?
By Troy Kroening
Lent can be hard, but at times Lent can be easy. Lent can be easy for two reasons: either we enjoy giving to Jesus or we are not giving much. If we are not giving much, we should not be discouraged.
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The Five Men You'll Meet at a Catholic Men's Conference: Part 3
By Mark C. McCann
I would like to conclude my series on the five men you'll meet at a Catholic men's conference, but looking at a man who is totally on fire for Jesus Christ, a man who came to the endge of himself, looked down that dark path and turned to find his Savior standing there, calling out his name.
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Lent a spiritual fight
By Troy Kroening
It might seem odd to call Lent a spiritual fight. After all, fasting is physical and not spiritual, right? Well, not only is fasting spiritual, but abstaining from meat is also spiritual. Indeed, they are both. Our body and soul are not separate pieces that do not affect each other. What we do with one affects the other.
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The Five Men You'll Meet at a Catholic Men's Conference: Part 2
By Mark C. McCann
As I have served on the planning committee for the Connecticut Catholic Men’s Conference, I have met some incredible men who love the Lord and their Catholic faith unashamedly. During these conferences, I find I rarely get to see the main speakers. But it is in my wanderings around the venue that I have developed some amazing relationships with these extraordinary ordinary men of God.
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Mary Lou Williams----This Catholic Convert and famed Jazz Pianist composed Sacred Music including the First Jazz Spiritual Mass celebrated at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
By Larry Peterson
Mary Elfrieda Scruggs was born on May 8, 1910, in Atlanta, Georgia. When she was a toddler the family moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and this is where Mary grew up. She was the second of eleven children, but unlike her siblings, Mary was a “gifted’ child. She had perfect pitch and a superb musical memory and was picking out tunes on the piano at the age of two.
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Bar Pro-Abortion Politicians From The Eucharist
By Birgit Jones
Faithfully practicing Catholics often recoil at the contradictory nature of public figures' actions and their claims of being Catholic. Especially when they continue their scandalous behavior and yet, present themselves for Holy Communion.
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Christian - Wake Up - A Testimony
By Susan Skinner
Jesus was inside the boat, sleeping with his head on a pillow. The followers went and woke him. They said, “Teacher, don’t you care about us?
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The Veil was Torn In Two - The Liturgy
By Susan Skinner
In my work in deliverance ministry we talk a lot about covenant and how the Jewish people all knew what this was and what was expected of them in covenant. We know too throughout history that other cultures have partaken in covenants with one another where the pact made with the group is a stronger bond than anything else.
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Ash Wednesday: 40 Days of Opportunities for Strange Correlations
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
A few years ago, the priest ended his Ash Wednesday homily with the command to “Have a joyous Lent!” I do not know if anyone else in the crowded church was as astonished as I at this exhortation. But incrementally, I am beginning to peel back the infinite paradoxes and contradictions of this faith of ours. One that mandates joy while immersed in terrible sorrow, fear, loss, betrayal, even death.
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The GIRMS May Be Silent--BUT the BIBLE IS NOT!
By Elizabeth Thomas
One more time I am reading an article about the ORANS Posture and shaking my head in disbelief. Really? We are at Mass, the love of Jesus in our hearts, focusing on HIM, His Love, His Messages. Why then do we become very concerned when we see hands up, lips moving at 'inappropriate' times with prayers that ONLY the priest is to say?
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Getting prepared
By Troy Kroening
We get ourselves prepared for many things. We prepare to face the outside cold with a coat and possibly gloves and a hat. We prepare ourselves for going to work. We prepare ourselves as best as we can sometimes.
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Am I My Brother's Keeper
By Elizabeth Thomas
A struggle continues within me and today the reading was about Cain struggling with his brother. Jealousy led him to kill, after he had been told by the Lord-- “Why are you so resentful and crestfallen. If you do well, you can hold up your head;
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