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What to Do About Mediocre, Milky Homilies at Mass
What to Do About Mediocre, Milky Homilies at Mass
By Dave Armstrong
A friend of mine complained about priests failing to actually present Catholic teachings in their homilies and the scarcity of sermons about contraception and the Real Presence and other Catholic doctrines. He thought that many homilies were feel-good pep talks that are at best marginally Catholic.
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Is Your Phone Ringing?
Is Your Phone Ringing?
By Michelle Watkins
I don’t know about you but I can get easily distracted during prayer. I can pray the rosary devotedly only to find my mind starting to drift away. One moment I’m focused on the prayers and the specific mystery. The next moment, I’m thinking about that load of laundry I need to do, a work deadline or a household chore.
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Confronting Porn
Confronting Porn
By Anthony Gockowski
In the past few months, there has been a curious revival of talking the “porn-myth” in certain secular circles. Russell Brand, a greasy image of compulsive sexual addiction, openly launched a crusade on porn. College campuses across the nation are campaigning for consent. Porn stars are dropping left and right and returning to their faith.
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Can We Be Assured Of Salvation?
Can We Be Assured Of Salvation?
By Bill Dunn
A core doctrine of Evangelical Protestantism is “once saved, always saved.” This means if a person puts his faith in Jesus and sincerely asks the Lord to come into his heart, then that person is guaranteed to go to Heaven for all eternity. Another term for this doctrine is “assurance of salvation.”
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Ripped From The Womb, Not A Person
Ripped From The Womb, Not A Person
By Jen Schlameuss-Perry
A woman who was preparing for the birth of her child responded to an ad on Craigslist to purchase clothes for her baby. Upon her arrival, the person who placed the ad, a deranged woman bent on kidnapping the unborn child, attacked the expectant mother, cut her open and removed the baby; leaving the mother in serious danger of death and ultimately killing the infant.
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What is Faith? Another Great Paradox - Part ll
What is Faith? Another Great Paradox - Part ll
By Linda Kracht
There are zillions of pithy one-liners that try and capture the essence of faith. At first glance they may seem clever and spot on but after closer introspection, they come across as deceptive and shallow. Not one of them can begin to capture the essence of FAITH but yet they try.
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Happy Easter, and Ho! Ho! Ho!
Happy Easter, and Ho! Ho! Ho!
By Bill Dunn
Here we are; it’s finally Easter. This is the perfect time to talk about … Christmas. Christmas?! Well, sure, why not? It only seems logical that as the Christian community directs its attention this week to the Resurrection of Jesus, we should also give some thought to the miracle that made it all possible: the Incarnation.
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The Mass is the ANSWER for it is the Most Beautiful Thing This Side of heaven
The Mass is the ANSWER for it is the Most Beautiful Thing This Side of heaven
By Larry Peterson
Something deeply mystical happens on Holy Thursday that many people (this may include some Catholics) do not understand. I refer to the Mass of the Lord's Supper. Lent ends when this Mass begins, which is usually in the evening. This Mass commemorates the night when Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist giving us His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity forever.
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Don't Be a Clanging Cymbal
Don't Be a Clanging Cymbal
By Crysaly Aviles
Walk the talk. Wishing someone well and offering them prayer is not enough. obviously, well wishing is preferred over having ill will toward someone, but it’s still not enough. Scripture says that faith without works is dead: “What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?
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The Lonely Soul: The Ultimate End of Individualism
The Lonely Soul: The Ultimate End of Individualism
By Randal Schmidt
Growing up in a conservative part of the United States, I was bred on the ideals of independence and individualism, self-reliance and autonomy. These are the ideals that built the country. These are what make a man. Hard work and a firm reliance on you and you alone is the best state for a man to be in.
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The Ten Greatest Paradoxes of our Christian Faith - part 1
The Ten Greatest Paradoxes of our Christian Faith - part 1
By Linda Kracht
What is a paradox? For purposes of discussion, let’s use its common definition. A paradox is a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained proves to be well founded or true.
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Mercy During Lent
Mercy During Lent
By Kelly Hainz
“Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned”. This is the refrain of the responsorial psalm sang in every Catholic church in the world on Ash Wednesday of 2015. Mercy, mercy, be merciful. In this beautiful psalm we continuously ask God to show us His mercy, but should we not also show mercy on Earth towards our fellow men and women?
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I Am The One Who Crucified Him
I Am The One Who Crucified Him
By Rosemary Bogdan
As I meditated this Lent, yet again, on the sorrowful mysteries of the rosary, the image of Christ’s bloody body came to my mind again and again. There was the scourging, ripping the skin of the most sacred Body of Christ, the Precious Blood spattering on the ground. As I thought of the crown of thorns tearing into the head of our precious Lord a certain indignation arose in me.
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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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Don't Judge
Don't Judge
By Crysaly Aviles
We don't talk about suicide, we whisper about it. Suicide is the ultimate of sins committed against God. While no doubt taking our life which is not our own to begin with is an affront towards God, it is the process that leads to suicide that is not sinful.
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A Spiritual Check-Up
A Spiritual Check-Up
By Bernice Pillart Dumitru
During his talk to the Curia before Christmas, our Dear Holy Father Francis, in the spirit of the Desert Fathers, gave the Roman Curia and the whole Church a catalogue of spiritual illnesses that may afflict us. Like the seven ‘deadly’ sins they can be a source of real disorder in our spiritual life if not attended to.
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If Only I Knew
If Only I Knew
By Elizabeth Thomas
A story of someone. He was at weekday Masses, two pews behind me usually. We always shared a smile and sometimes an occasional word. My sister knew him better than I as she lived there for over 30 years and I only two. I should have asked more about him from her. I wondered was he married?
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