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Dumbing Down The Vocabulary Of Faith
Dumbing Down The Vocabulary Of Faith
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
I learned the phrase, “dumbing down” from one of the editors at a British publishing company Blackwell Scientific Publishing Company. Richard understood my goal to produce a textbook which challenged and would provide a breadth of physiology and pathophysiology not available in competing texts.
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Does Jesus Love Strippers?
Does Jesus Love Strippers?
By Lorrie McNickle
Does Jesus love strippers? Seriously, I saw this “new story” on my Facebook feed today. Yes, Jesus does love strippers, he loves all of us, holy or sinful. The question that really needs to be asked is “Do Strippers love Jesus?”
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Prayer
Prayer
By Ralph Hathaway
Jesus told His disciples to pray like this: “Our Father Who art in heaven……..” “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret”. “Where two or more are gathered in My name there I am in their midst”.
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Encouraging and helpful quotations from the Bible for your reflection (4)
Encouraging and helpful quotations from the Bible for your reflection (4)
By George Calleja
In this article, you will find some encouraging and helpful quotations from the Bible for your reflection, which can help you in your life.
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The Face of Faith
The Face of Faith
By Tanya Janoski
As Christians, we are called to live by faith (see Hebrews 11:1 NAB). We understand that our faith will be tested each day in the choices that are set before us.
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Carrying the burdens of life
Carrying the burdens of life
By George Calleja
Every person in the world goes through different difficult moments in life. These difficulties or so called burdens of life can take the form of sickness, being unemployed, family arguments, the death of a family member... and many, many such other examples.
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Find True Relief & Healing from Pain in God
Find True Relief & Healing from Pain in God
By Katie Zalany
My heart is heavy from all of the tragic drug use. People are in so much pain and need of relief that they are turning to addictive drugs that unfortunately lead to even more suffering and death. Where can they find true relief and healing from pain? Only in God.
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Artist Jonathan Byrne and The Face of Christ
Artist Jonathan Byrne and The Face of Christ
By Melanie Jean Juneau
Jonathan Byrne is a professional mid-career artist who lives in the coastal town of Blackrock in Dublin, Ireland. After many years of making images and exhibiting at home and abroad, he returned to a subject that has always enthralled him, the Face of Christ.
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Why Would Anyone In This Modern Age Even Think About Religious Life?: My Story So Far
Why Would Anyone In This Modern Age Even Think About Religious Life?: My Story So Far
By Kim-Thérèse Lee
I’ve heard this question many times, and after having discerned for several years, I’ve read many, many vocation stories. In fact, everyone has a story to tell. God writes each of us into life in His own unique way, and we’re made to live with a special purpose only we can fulfill.
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Living in the almost
Living in the almost
By Mary Ashley Burton
As a single Catholic, it can be an easy temptation to fall into dangerous binary thinking. Either you do everything right, and get rewarded with a loving spouse and family, or God withholds these things from you as some sort of punishment. On my worst days, I suspect God of keeping these things from me not because of anything I might be doing, but because of who I am.
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A Proper Disposition in Prayer
A Proper Disposition in Prayer
By Joby Provido
Prayer is communal and personal. In communal prayer, we come together with others to listen and respond to God in the stylized rubrics of the liturgy.
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Art, faith, and sin
Art, faith, and sin
By Elizabeth Hoyle
A few months ago, I was on jury duty and witnessed an interesting idea of what Christianity is and how faith and art relate to one another. One of my fellow jurors was an older lady who made it quite clear to us from the beginning of our service that she didn’t want to hear any foul language from us because she is a Christian.
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Why We Celebrate St. Mary
Why We Celebrate St. Mary
By E.M. McCarthy
Mary, the mother of Jesus, has been much maligned in recent years. Many people mistake devotion to Mary as a sort of worshiping of her. I suppose if we truly viewed her like our own parent, we would understand Marian devotion much more clearly.
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Witnessing to a Wavering Catholic
Witnessing to a Wavering Catholic
By Rose Cuervo
A young man tells me that he has been attending a Protestant church but he has not been telling his family, who is strongly Catholic. He tells me that he had received a call from God to serve Him more and felt that this was a call to be ordained a minister in the Protestant church and asks me what I think.
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As The Years Go By
As The Years Go By
By Mary Rivers
One hundred years have passed, A century of turbulence, unrest, and wars, It was the day when the Virgin’s light Encircled Fatima then, adorned three small children.
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Jesus' Sacred Heart Beats for You
Jesus' Sacred Heart Beats for You
By Katie Zalany
It was a rainy morning on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I was tempted to skip Mass and go straight to work to avoid dealing with the weather, but a still small voice guided me to the cathedral doors to receive the Eucharist.
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A Witch Mocks Christians as Stupid
A Witch Mocks Christians as Stupid
By Melanie Jean Juneau
A good friend, Martha, from Madonna House, “happened” to sit beside a self-proclaimed witch on an old bus heading towards the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. Noticing Martha’s large cross identifying her as a member of the Lay Apostolate, the witch cynically remarked that most Christians were stupid because they were completely clueless about the potential power that existed within
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