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Perseverance
Perseverance
By Linda Kracht
We have discussed many virtues this past year. Virtuous living draws us out of ourselves and that’s why it is important to keep talking about the ways to arm ourselves (and our children) with virtue. Each virtue is inextricably linked to supporting virtue(s); what an added boost! Virtues that have their fullest effect are practiced/put to work with love.
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Waiting
Waiting
By Helen Losse
A snowman, who wears a vest with a single garish button, peeks out from tall trees.
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On the True Spirit of Advent
On the True Spirit of Advent
By Justin Soutar
We Catholics recently began a new liturgical year, entering once again into the season of Advent, which is a period of preparation for the celebration of Christ's birthday.
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Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love
By Madeline Mauro
Living life with Unconditional Love can change your whole perspective of humanity. Just think of it. You are loved, and there is nothing you can do to stop it from happening. You can be a defiant person, and you will not stop this Love from loving you. You cannot change Unconditional Love’s mind. You are stuck with the fact that it is the truth!
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Out of the Ashes of Defeat: Discovering A Call to Be Single
Out of the Ashes of Defeat: Discovering A Call to Be Single
By Melanie Jean Juneau
There are many people today who do not think being single is simply a default choice or a temporary state. After years of struggling to find their unique vocation, men and women are discovering they are not called to marriage or a specific religious community. They still want to solemnly vow to live their lives dedicated to God, exclusively.
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Advent & The Divine Mercy Message
Advent & The Divine Mercy Message
By Frank J. Maduri
Advent is a season of waiting and preparing within the Catholic faith for Christmas Day. It is a time to pray, reflect, and meditate in order to focus your mind, heart, and soul on the second coming of Jesus at the end of the world.
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Left-over thoughts on Turkey...
Left-over thoughts on Turkey...
By Richard Davis
Yes, I am playing with words. The "Turkey" I am referring to is the country, the Republic of Turkey, formed, more or less, out of the remains of the old Ottoman Empire.
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8 Ways to Make Your Way From Advent to Christmas
8 Ways to Make Your Way From Advent to Christmas
By Birgit Jones
As an anticipatory and penitent season, Advent can bring many pressures to an already hectic time. While it is certainly important to keep Christ in Christmas, our life's realities must garner our attention as well.
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What's Going On With Our Men?
What's Going On With Our Men?
By Linda Kracht
What’s really at stake when men — husbands, fathers, brothers, cousins, sons, and neighbors — objectify women through sexual misconduct? Why do they do this? While mainstream America seems to have concluded that personal power corrupted these men’s hearts, we are free to question that conclusion.
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A New Tradition
A New Tradition
By Malleson Emmerling
Six years ago on Thanksgiving morning, I started what would become a new tradition with my father. It was, in fact, merely an accident that I was at my dad’s home six years ago on Thanksgiving morning.
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There's some good in this world... and it's worth fighting for.
There's some good in this world... and it's worth fighting for.
By Lisa Mayer
Samwise Gamgee is probably one of the most well-known and beloved of J.R.R. Tolkien's characters... or any character, for that matter. And sure, he isn't a Catholic saint. He isn't even real. Nevertheless, his words are crucial in our day and age, and in our journey with Christ.
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An "arduous journey" through and with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ
An "arduous journey" through and with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ
By Ralph Hathaway
When one appears to seek the exultations of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, and receives an exhilarating vision of sanctity within that which will completely envelop the soul of oneself there will emerge within and without a sense of extreme fervor that only God can administer through Grace and Holiness.
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Take the 'Mary Challenge' This Advent
Take the 'Mary Challenge' This Advent
By Katie Zalany
Mary...she's someone we all can learn from and have a relationship with. She is faithful, virtuous, humble, pure, unstained by sin, and possesses a servant’s heart. When I read the passages about Mary’s Immaculate Conception, I am completely struck by three of her shining characteristics
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Christmas Magic?
Christmas Magic?
By Lorrie McNickle
We are in the very earliest days of the Advent season, and I am hearing the notion of Christmas magic being espoused almost daily. Christmas and Holiday “magic” is an idea that seems to play on our emotions to elicit the feeling and sentiment of a supernatural spirit and force that lifts up the holiday into a Divine and Glorious celebration.
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Just Laborers!
Just Laborers!
By Elizabeth Thomas
Everyday-the majority of people everywhere-get up, get going, and start their day. We all go in different directions. We may be just laborers in the fields, or the factories. We may be teachers, Doctors, parents, lawyers, nurses, police or fire personnel, EMTS, janitors, cooks, servers, the military, farmers, mechanics ---- basically we are just laborers --- in the fields.
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Deus Caritas - God is Love
Deus Caritas - God is Love
By David Torkington
When Charles Dickens wrote, "God is love," on the workhouse wall, he was of course being sarcastic. He knew there was no love in that workhouse, as Oliver Twist was about to find when he begged for more gruel. Yet, Dickens was right; unlike any other religion, Christianity is founded on love, not on our love of God, but as St John insisted, on his love of us.
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Antsy At Adoration?
Antsy At Adoration?
By Anne Rose
Do you ever sit before the Blessed Sacrament and feel as if you want to eject from your seat? I mean, literally for me sometimes, it’s as if I have the engines of a 747 inside me, all revved up, ready for blast-off. I’m not going anywhere, just flying in place at supersonic speed with my insides exploding like shooting stars.
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