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Best of Plans Sometimes Do Not Turn Out As Expected
Best of Plans Sometimes Do Not Turn Out As Expected
By Deborah Burton
I am on a pilgrimage that I have been planning for a year and a half and am going to try to chronical lessons learned during this journey.
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Contemplation in a Chaotic World
Contemplation in a Chaotic World
By Robert Curtis O.P.
When St. Dominic Guzman formed the Order of Preachers in 1216, he established four pillars to define the lives of Dominicans everywhere and always: prayer, study, community, and apostolic works.
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I Met One of God's Angels
I Met One of God's Angels
By Michelle Nicholl
Last week, when I attended Mass -- I didn’t expect anything out of the ordinary. I walked into church --- shook hands with the greeter at the door -- stopped to get some holy water -- and proceeded inside to sit down. I knelt down -- said a couple prayers -- then started to read the readings for that day -- while patiently waiting for Mass to begin.
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Raising a Child of God in a Secular World
Raising a Child of God in a Secular World
By Caroline Godin
My daughter loves to read, I mean seriously loves reading. She’s a kid with her nose constantly in a book, usually belonging to a series, and a few years beyond her age. She’s nine. Sometimes I think she’s nine going on 19, but she’s still a little kid. She’ll read just about anything from fantasy to horror, joke books to comics, even billboards and pamphlets. I’m not kidding; she’ll grab flyers
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I don't want to be an apologist anymore.
I don't want to be an apologist anymore.
By Jason Klinnert
I don't think anyone says when they are kids, "I want to grow up and be an apologist". I certainly didn't. I didn't want to be one at 18 years old. I didn't want to be one at 21 years old. I didn't want to ever be one. And I still don't. However, when you date, are engaged to, and marry an anti-Catholic woman, you become an amateur apologist by default,
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Abortion - Human Cleansing Resembling the Third Reich!
Abortion - Human Cleansing Resembling the Third Reich!
By Ralph Hathaway
As I sat this morning praying one hour of rosaries, as part of the “40 Days for Life” here in Pittsburgh during October, my mind went to a woman lying on an operating table and a doctor using forceps to pull a beautiful baby out of the birth canal and plunging a sharp medical instrument into the back of this child of God’s brain.
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Catholics: Minimalists Before it was Cool
Catholics: Minimalists Before it was Cool
By Sterling Jaquith
Minimalism is all the rage right now. As millennials are tossing their things in pursuit of experiences instead, we are seeing more and more articles on the internet about embracing a minimalist lifestyle. It’s no secret Americans own too much stuff. We’re drowning in possessions and it’s causing us actual anxiety to look at them and care for.
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Rhoda Wise—Wife, Mom, Convert, Stigmatic and Mentor to Mother Angelica*
Rhoda Wise—Wife, Mom, Convert, Stigmatic and Mentor to Mother Angelica*
By Larry Peterson
The year was 1904 and Rhoda Wise was terrified. The sixteen year old girl was experiencing searing pain which was exploding in her lower abdomen. She was taken to Wheeling Hospital in Wheeling, West Virginia where she was about to have surgery to remove her ruptured appendix. She had no idea she was about to experience a turning point in her young life.
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Professional athletes: What, exactly, are you protesting?
Professional athletes: What, exactly, are you protesting?
By Greg Schlueter
This is not about a right to peacefully protest-- which we all ought to respect. I'm genuinely seeking here to understand what and why people are protesting-- inviting respectful conversation.
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Were we supposed to learn a specific lesson from Irma and Harvey?*
Were we supposed to learn a specific lesson from Irma and Harvey?*
By Larry Peterson
Officially, the annual hurricane season begins June 1 and ends on November 30, and every year we Floridians receive our annual Hurricane Preparedness Newsletter The fact is, most of us who live here are usually prepared and ready for these storms. We know the drill.
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Miracle of the Sun
Miracle of the Sun
By Mary Rivers
One hundred years have passed since Mary did appear in Fatima, Seen by three prayerful children and seventy thousand spectators.
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Let Christ Rip The Rug Up From Under You
Let Christ Rip The Rug Up From Under You
By Melanie Jean Juneau
When Jesus invites us to die to ourselves, He is not referring to some pious act of self-sacrifice which will make us look or feel holy. No, He has something much more radical in mind. The kind of inner transformation Christ desires will literally rip the rug up from under our feet and shatter our worldview. For the very brave, I suggest a quick method to facilitate this sanctifying process.
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A Book Review of Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle's "Our Lady of Fatima: 100 Years of Stories, Prayers, and Devotions"
A Book Review of Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle's "Our Lady of Fatima: 100 Years of Stories, Prayers, and Devotions"
By Justin McClain
One hundred years ago as of May 13, 2017, Our Lady of Fatima ushered in a message of love, of peace, and of enduring reconciliation by way of three young Portuguese children. In the twenty-first century, Our Lady’s message remains just as pertinent, if not more so. The world is besieged by strife and discord, with some areas suffering more acutely than others, and we need a Mother’s tender heart.
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Without Priests we are Doomed!
Without Priests we are Doomed!
By Ralph Hathaway
In a catechetical sermon by St. John Mary Vianney titled “On the Priesthood” the holy Cure of Ars said; “When the priest remits sins, he does not say, “God pardons you;” he says “I absolve you.” At the Consecration, he does not say, “This is the body of our Lord;” he says “This is My Body.” If we had not the Sacrament of Orders, we should not have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.
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The Legacy Of Saint Vincent de Paul
The Legacy Of Saint Vincent de Paul
By Frank J. Maduri
The natural disasters from hurricanes, to earthquakes, and to tsunami events are a reminder to us all the importance of charity. The areas of Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Mexico, the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, and Japan devastated by natural disasters are reliant upon the charitable giving of others to restore cities and communities.
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Stories We All Should Know: Our Lady of Olives
Stories We All Should Know: Our Lady of Olives
By Trish Stukbauer
It drew me like a magnet as I waiting in an endless line at an antique mall filled with treasures just outside Charlotte, N.C. Right by the checkout line, pinned to a vintage white fabric dress form, was a collection of blue and white plaid ribbons with various charms hanging from each. The sign above them read: “Purchased from a Spanish flea market.”
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The Language of Thirst: What's the Point of Liturgy?
The Language of Thirst: What's the Point of Liturgy?
By Robert Curtis O.P.
Many Protestants have a problem with Roman Catholic liturgy; they call it dead ritual, prescribed rites that separate Catholics from the Lord’s presence. But whatever is done in a Protestant service: someone sings a song, the minister says a prayer, the minister reads and interprets a particular piece of Scripture, then another prayer, a parting hymn, are all vestiges of Roman Catholic liturgy.
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