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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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Calvary
Calvary
By Timothy Neboyskey
Hasten ye reversion or nay unfetter thy perception for all about Calvary reigns
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What's wrong with "Catholic guilt?"
What's wrong with "Catholic guilt?"
By Christopher Smith OP
A friend of mine, who interestingly is Mormon, recently commented on my apparent lack of remorse over something. She asked jokingly, “Where’s your Catholic guilt?” I said, “I don’t carry any.” She appeared confused and asked, “Are you giving up on being Catholic?”
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Now is the Time of Mercy
Now is the Time of Mercy
By Nancy Marie Murray
"Santo Subito! Sainthood now!" This cry, which rang out from the crowds from the moment of Pope John Paul II's death, became reality when John Paul was declared a saint last year on the Feast of Divine Mercy.
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I am the Woman at the Well- A Walk Through the Scrutinies
I am the Woman at the Well- A Walk Through the Scrutinies
By Susan Skinner
During the third, fourth, and fifth weeks of Lent people who are in RCIA walk through the Scrutinies in the Gospels from year A. According to the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults book paragraph 141; “The scrutinies…are rites of self-searching and repentance and have above all a spiritual purpose.
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Catholic and Gay
Catholic and Gay
By Will Moravits
Many things have changed since I first became a youth minister in 2000. In addition to the changes in technology, social media, etc. the ideas of right and wrong in society have also changed.
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Why This "Jesus Freak" Became a Catholic
Why This "Jesus Freak" Became a Catholic
By Dave Armstrong
I was pretty nominal Methodist as a child in the 60s. My faith wasn't very vital (to put it mildly), for whatever reason. I was very ignorant of theology, and didn't have a good Sunday school, or much at all to teach me otherwise. But 1977 I became an evangelical Christian.
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What the Samaritan Might Have Said
What the Samaritan Might Have Said
By Elizabeth Thomas
“Oh no!!! Who has done this to you! Who has terribly abused you, beating you up, leaving you lay in this ditch along life’s road? Who, oh, who has left you this way?
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March Madness and Jesus, the All-Time MVP
March Madness and Jesus, the All-Time MVP
By Grace Mazza Urbanski
March Madness on the brain? Here's an interesting question for those of us with Seasonal Bracket-Obsessive Disorder: What do you eat after you watch a game?
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Something's Fishy on Fridays During Lent
Something's Fishy on Fridays During Lent
By Dean P. Johnson
When I stepping through the backdoor a couple of Fridays ago, I smelled something delicious. I had no idea what it was, but I knew it wasn’t pizza, a Lenten Friday staple. “Fish?” I asked. A brilliant deduction if I say so myself given that every Friday on the calendar magnetically pinned to the refrigerator has a picture of a fish on it.
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50 Shades of Messed Up
50 Shades of Messed Up
By Crysaly Aviles
The leading actor even says it himself, “I’m messed up” (with much more colorful language.) This movie is dangerous on several levels. It tells its story with a Cinderella undertone that the behaviors portrayed are desirable and sexy. The leading actress is a “commoner” who is swept away by the allure of a billionaire’s attention.
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‘Your Wife Is Going To Hell … Because She's Catholic!'
‘Your Wife Is Going To Hell … Because She's Catholic!'
By Bill Dunn
It was such a sweet moment. Almost 30 years ago I was at my friend Pete’s house. His pretty young wife Lori was with us. (Not their real names.) I had been sober for only five months and Pete was not only helping me navigate the journey of sobriety, he also was helping me deal with the fact that I had recently lost my faith in atheism.
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You May Be Right.....But.....
You May Be Right.....But.....
By Michelle Watkins
A priest once said that when we sin we in turn make Jesus cry. (This is the same Jesus today that once died a horrifically violent death for us.)
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Sometimes It's Hard To Talk To God
Sometimes It's Hard To Talk To God
By Robert Hug
It’s times like these when talking to God can be hard. When I’m tired, sick, disappointed, emotionally spent and have been feeling far from Him. I don’t want to get out of bed 45 minutes earlier than I have to. I don’t want to talk to Him when I know I’m not feeling very grateful. I don’t want to pretend that everything is going to be ok when my mind is telling me the opposite.
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Be Christendom
Be Christendom
By Nathan James Rawlins
How many Christians lead a double life? How many of us are Christians at only those appropriate times, Christmas and Easter, possibly every Sunday? And is it only those isolated occasions because our secular culture is marginalizing both Prayer and God? I believe so.
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Good Samaritans in a Beep Beep World
Good Samaritans in a Beep Beep World
By Catherine Fuss
My 10 year old son and I were out running errands the other day, and as we went from Sports Authority to Five Below (nirvana stores for a boy that age), we passed by a homeless man sitting on a concrete wall. He was tucked back a bit in some bushes surrounded by a low wall. It was cold out and windy.
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