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The Dangers of Cliques and Superior Attitudes in the Church
The Dangers of Cliques and Superior Attitudes in the Church
By Dr. Anne DeSantis
In 2015 we celebrated “The Year of Mercy” declared by our Holy Father Pope Francis. We are currently in a time of welcoming for all into the Church. This is a time of love and of forgiveness and of new beginnings.
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Are you searching for a relationship with Jesus?
Are you searching for a relationship with Jesus?
By Zaid Kanafani
Within every one of us, there is a question that takes a while to answer. I don’t believe there is a right or wrong response to what has been asked. The level of intimacy required to produce an honest response makes it impossible to answer incorrectly.
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Breaking the FAST Rules—Having a FUN and Fruitful Lent!
Breaking the FAST Rules—Having a FUN and Fruitful Lent!
By Elizabeth Thomas
Before we know it---Lent will be here and that WORD back into our life. You know that word—FASTING!!! Here we go again folks 40 more days of ---procrastination and excuses of why we limp our way through these 40 days.
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If we want things to get better, we must know where we are.
If we want things to get better, we must know where we are.
By Troy Kroening
We want many things to get ‘better’. But do we truly take inventory of where we are? If we do not, how can we know if we got better? And normally, taking inventory is exactly how we determine what it is that we need to do to make things better. The elephant in the room becomes obvious, if we never noticed it before.
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How to Trust God
How to Trust God
By Susan Skinner
My friend Ashley Blackburn and I wrote this meditation on how to Trust. We wrote it as if Mary is speaking to you, personally.
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Simple Prayer
Simple Prayer
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
God reprimanded Job (Job 42:3) because his complaints in his suffering were, as he said, "words without knowledge." The Lord asked him if he intended to let his unthinking questions lead him to deny God's loving providence.
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How I Got My Prayer Life in Order
How I Got My Prayer Life in Order
By Paul Smith
This is a busy time that we live in. Let me just give you a glimpse into my busy life. Everyday I wake up at 5:00 AM to do what we call PT in the Army. After that I have to rush home to take my wife to class and then to shower, get dressed and get ready for work. That puts us at around 8:00 AM. At this point I make sure that our four children are dressed and ready to go and get on the bus
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The Kingdom of God through the Initiation Sacraments
The Kingdom of God through the Initiation Sacraments
By Susan Skinner
As I, Susan, spoke to the Protestant Minister the other day about purgatory, it became abundantly clear to me that there is a gaping hole in the lives of some Christians because of the lack of belief in the full Sacramental Life.
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Purgatory - The Path of Perfection
Purgatory - The Path of Perfection
By Susan Skinner
This other morning I had a discussion online with a Protestant Minister. She identified herself as a Priest, and she was admonishing my friend for praying for his deceased mother (on the Anniversary of his mother’s death, I might add). She said his mother was dead and prayers won’t help her. My heart sank as I know the biggest mercy God allowed for us was Purgatory,
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Is God Real?
Is God Real?
By Deacon Frederick Bartels
The most convincing proof for God will always remain one’s own personal encounter with him. Is God real? Does he exist? Although it’s an age-old question, it has perhaps never been more relevant than it is today, given the rise in atheism that finds its origin in 19th-century men like Ludwig Feuerbach and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Fear of the Lord
Fear of the Lord
By Lisa Mayer
Growing up, I heard this at Mass, in the readings and psalms. The problem is that I was uneducated, and tend to be a concrete thinker, so I thought that we were supposed to fear Jesus. So I did. I was afraid of Him. I was scared to death that He was going to send me to hell. Loving Jesus was the farthest thing from my mind.
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You can never have too much love.
You can never have too much love.
By Troy Kroening
Having too much of many things are bad for us. Moderation is good. That is, until it comes to love. There can never be too much. The best we can do is to be filled with love. If we moderate love, we are limiting love. We either do so by introducing evil or with indifference to love. Introducing evil is obviously bad, but too many times, we do not see how indifference is so bad.
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From the Desire to be Liked, Deliver Us, O Lord!
From the Desire to be Liked, Deliver Us, O Lord!
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
Becoming Catholic was the most precious gift I could have ever imagined. The spiritual search had been a long, and costly journey.
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Peace Prayers
Peace Prayers
By Catherine M. J. Mary Evans
Peace prayers help us to relearn how to live after war. However, we keep praying to live peacefully as wars are going on in the world, too.
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Chesterton and the Virtue of Common Sense
Chesterton and the Virtue of Common Sense
By Linda Kracht
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) has been dubbed the apostle of common sense. An apostle is sent to preach the Gospel - in ordinary and/or extraordinary ways. Chestertondid just that using common sense arguments. ‘Critics recognized that he wrote in defense of the Christian faith but mistakenly presumed he was just doing it for show.
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St. Augustine's Confessions and My Quest for Greatness in the Confessional
St. Augustine's Confessions and My Quest for Greatness in the Confessional
By Alyson Borowczyk
Eight years ago, I was a twenty-three-year-old college student who had abandoned her Catholic faith for the sinfully self-gratifying lifestyle that seduces so many of us in our youth.
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Greeting the New Year---the Catholic Way
Greeting the New Year---the Catholic Way
By Larry Peterson
According to Georgetown University , as of October 2017, there are 1.28 billion Catholics in the world. 70.4 million of them are in the United States. The USA has a population of approximately 330,000,000 people. That works out to about 22% of the American population being Catholic.
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