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Giving Up Sarcasm For Lent? Yeah, Right!
Giving Up Sarcasm For Lent? Yeah, Right!
By Gina Weiss
In Lents past I've given up Facebook, sweets, coffee, and other simple life pleasures. This year I’m giving up sarcasm, and I’m serious. While sarcasm can be used to prove a point or make lighter of a situation it can also be uncharitable, disrespectful and insulting to others.
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How well do you love yourself? Day 10
How well do you love yourself? Day 10
By Lori Conklin
Today’s reflection is on the great commandment. Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
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Football and Faith: The Perfect Collision.
Football and Faith: The Perfect Collision.
By James Berkon
Ask any football fan whether they prefer an offensive juggernaut or a shutdown defense and 90% of the time, the fans will choose the team with the offensive fireworks.
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Out of the Mouths of Babes: "I already did!"
Out of the Mouths of Babes: "I already did!"
By Bobbie Ann Taylor
After another night in which our toddler cried, tugging at his ears, our family doctor recommended we take him to an ear specialist. Stunned by the results of the ear examination, we heard the news that our son had two punctured ear drums.
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Don't Put Down What You've Picked Up For Lent
Don't Put Down What You've Picked Up For Lent
By Sarah Mathew
Lent is here. The Ash Wednesday services were packed to standing room only. Morning Mass has doubled in attendance. Many faithful Catholics take on Lenten penances and practices. But come Easter Monday, it is almost with a sense of relief that we return to the routines of our days, Lenten practices forgotten till the next time Lent comes around.
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Want to do God's will? Listen up.
Want to do God's will? Listen up.
By Troy Kroening
No, that does not mean listen to me. Listen to God. (although you can continue reading too) It’s God’s will that you are seeking to accomplish. We cannot just start doing and think or hope that it is God’s will, just because what we are doing seems good.
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I Look For You (Song of Solomon)
I Look For You (Song of Solomon)
By Juan Trujillo
I look for you, like the air to live, with desire, with hope, with necessity.
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Our Urgent Call | Free Talk by Peter Herbeck
Our Urgent Call | Free Talk by Peter Herbeck
By Greg Schlueter
This is for all of you who've ever been up the mountain. Who have encountered Jesus Christ in a powerful way. Whose lives are changed. Who know it wasn't for a fleeting moment of entertainment, but an outpouring movement of all-in engagement. This is for those of you who desire it.
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Pondering in my Heart
Pondering in my Heart
By Ginny Kochis
Twenty weeks into my third pregnancy, I found myself crying hysterically as the ultrasound technician glided a magic wand over my swollen belly. She had just told me I was having a boy. I crumbled.
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Infant Baptism and implied consent
Infant Baptism and implied consent
By De Maria
Earlier this year, we went through our annual first aid and CPR (Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation) training. And, for the hundredth time, they mentioned a concept which I had heard before, but which I hadn’t connected to our faith before.
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Day 7 It's All About Love
Day 7 It's All About Love
By Lori Conklin
Well we are into Lent! How are you doing so far? I am not doing as well as I expected. You see, I sometimes have high expectations of myself and God for that matter. I feel that if I am doing my part things should go smoothly. Like the feeling you get when you are deep in prayer.
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The Third, Seventh, and Ninth Stations of the Cross: A Mercy Reflection
The Third, Seventh, and Ninth Stations of the Cross: A Mercy Reflection
By Bobbie Ann Taylor
In the Third, Seventh, and Ninth Stations of the Cross, we remember that Our Blessed Lord fell more than once while carrying His Cross, as He made His way to Golgotha.
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The Whole World is a Friary
The Whole World is a Friary
By David Torkington
When St Francis of Assisi had rebuilt a tumbledown little church given to him by the Benedictines, he called it St Mary of the Angels. It was here, over eight hundred years ago, that he heard God speaking to him through the Gospels while attending Mass.
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Standing up for Truth
Standing up for Truth
By Lori Conklin
I remember a few years back our district rolled out their new comprehensive math curriculum, our daughter was in second grade. We were amazed by the way the new curriculum was written. The children were to work in groups and they no longer concerned if the students got the right answer but were more concerned in how they arrived at the answer.
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Seeing the Transfiguration of Jesus Today
Seeing the Transfiguration of Jesus Today
By Mary Rivers
When we entered middle school, our mother, your great grandmother took a job. She was in charge of the money room of the first Belk Dept. Store. She could have been as haughty as Judas Iscariot, but she was as humble as Jesus in her faith.
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Same Sex Marriage and the Church, Is It Time for Change?
Same Sex Marriage and the Church, Is It Time for Change?
By Lorrie McNickle
We look the other way when it comes to a multitude of things: contraception, sex before marriage, gluttony for the material things in life, and lust for Earthly pleasures. What we should be striving for are the virtues of temperance, courage, prudence and purity. Yes, these virtues do seem rather boring and square, but they are anything but.
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Following Where the Spirit Sends You
Following Where the Spirit Sends You
By Katherine V Urquidi
It's another Lent, and another time for soul searching about what to do. Give something up? Take on a Lenten project? My husband has embarked on a fasting schedule that to me is truly daunting. But at Mass today, the words of the first reading from Isaiah resounded in my mind and my soul.
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