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The significance of the name Barabbas
The significance of the name Barabbas
By Elizabeth Hoyle
As Catholics, we know that names are important. We name our parishes, our schools, and our children after saints and notable figures from the bible. The significance of names is not strictly a Catholic thing, however. The ancient Jews and the Jews of Jesus’ day understood the importance of names.
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Seven Sacred Words
Seven Sacred Words
By Bernice Pillart Dumitru
“Behold the Wood of the Cross on which hung the Salvation of the world, O come let us adore.” The priest sings as we gaze at the crucified one on Good Friday.
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Striving and Trust
Striving and Trust
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
One of those “let-me-think-about-it” aphorisms was formulated by James Baldwin. He wrote, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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Timely Meditations on the Sorrowful Mysteries
Timely Meditations on the Sorrowful Mysteries
By Rex Teodosio
Here are some meditations on the sorrowful mysteries that are always timely even outside of the season of Lent.
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Open the Tomb!
Open the Tomb!
By Elizabeth Thomas
In Sunday’s Gospel, as we heard the story of raising Lazarus from the dead, we are told to remove the stone or open the tomb. Yes, Jesus is telling us to open the tomb!
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In the Garden
In the Garden
By Katie Zalany
What’s your Garden of Gethsemane? What is the trial you are about to undergo? What cross are you agonizing over? What are you awaiting or enduring to get to your resurrection? What aspect of God’s will are you yearning for Him to take from you?
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Lenten Reflections
Lenten Reflections
By Ross Decker
I spent a lot of Wednesdays and Sundays in a church that really didn't recognize Lent. The pastor preached instant forgiveness and promised that God could not even remember your sins once you confessed them mentally to Him. He preached about Lent, Confession, Penance, and other Catholic practices only to mock them.
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Prayer and Trust
Prayer and Trust
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
The hallmark of Christian spirituality has always been prayer. A truly prayerful person whose prayer is based on Christian revelation can be said to be a holy person. The Lord prompted St. Faustina to encourage the use of a simple five-word prayer because it summarizes the whole of Christian spirituality: “Jesus, I trust in you!”
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On Michelle Kwan's divorce and other Hillary-pples
On Michelle Kwan's divorce and other Hillary-pples
By Rose Cuervo
Sometime in my work life, I had been offered a good paying locums job only that the lady boss breathes fire. It was not a happy environment and I salute the Filipina pathologist who managed to stay there awhile. I would come to encounter more of this former women sadly, older, accomplished, childless or not, married or divorced.
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America's Biggest Family Oriented Catholic Missions Organization Up Close
America's Biggest Family Oriented Catholic Missions Organization Up Close
By Nate Lauer
Deep in the heart of Cajun country, in the bayous of southernmost Louisiana, mere miles off the Gulf Coast lies “Big Woods”, the operation center of Family Missions Company.
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Death, Hope, Heaven- What Are We Here for Anyway?
Death, Hope, Heaven- What Are We Here for Anyway?
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
In my pre-Catholic ‘pagan’ years, I worried about death. Mostly because I feared standing before a God I did not think I believed in and explaining why I had wasted knowledge, understanding, and time. After twenty years as a Catholic, I would like to think that anxiety is gone.
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Guidance and Trust
Guidance and Trust
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
A farmer watched a bird building its nest in a heap of branches pruned from an apple tree. Having planned to clear away that pile of branches, he destroyed the unfinished nest to discourage the bird from building it there. Undaunted, the bird started building her nest again in the same spot, and again the farmer destroyed the nest.
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Will You Choose to Please Him?
Will You Choose to Please Him?
By Tanya Janoski
The topic of abortion is one not many want to discuss regardless of the position on the issue one stands. Our politically correct society fears offending man yet has no fear of offending God.
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"God's Suffering Servant"
"God's Suffering Servant"
By Ralph Hathaway
The Prophet Isaiah brings to our senses a most eye-opening kaleidoscope of the Suffering of Christ, especially in the four Songs of the “Suffering Servant.”
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What Happens in an Abortion--a Clinical Worker Speaks
What Happens in an Abortion--a Clinical Worker Speaks
By Rose Cuervo
Last week, I was invited to a talk, sponsored by a Rutgers Medical School student group Vita et Veritas, on conscience rights. Their existence, like other pro-life student groups such as other big universities, is always a marvel to me. How I wished I had that faith and formation when I was younger.
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The Powers of Darkness
The Powers of Darkness
By Lorrie McNickle
I really don’t think that most of us have any idea how much spiritual warfare and demonic evilness is affecting our lives, and the state of our souls. It is hard to understand how something we cannot see or be physically aware of, can affect us in such extraordinary and destructive ways. Many of us do not even believe in such forces.
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Persistence and Trust
Persistence and Trust
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Emblazoned on the tombstone of a hypochondriac was his preplanned epitaph: “I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK!” The wit of the inscription was the fact that the poor man’s persistence in his health complaints was extended beyond his demise. (He must have been “gravely” sick--if you’ll excuse the pun.)
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