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Rejoicing
Rejoicing
By Mariel Roersma
During this season of Advent, we are called to rejoice. The readings speak of it, the songs mention it, and it's brought up in the sermons. But what happens when we don't feel that is for us?
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Husbands -- It's Our Role!
Husbands -- It's Our Role!
By Richard Maffeo
If you’re like me, we like being reminded that Jesus nourishes and cherishes us. The entire New Testament repeats that promise again and again. That truth lifts our head when depression seeps into our thoughts. It gives us confidence when hard times come to our families, our health, our finances, our communities, our nation.
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Prayer Warriors Run To The Sound Of Spiritual And Physical Battle To Save Innocent Lives
Prayer Warriors Run To The Sound Of Spiritual And Physical Battle To Save Innocent Lives
By Ralph Zuranski
Violence should always be the last resort. God calls us to pray for our enemies and return love for evil except in the case of defending human life.
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The most famous birth announcement
The most famous birth announcement
By Paul Couturier
The birth of a newborn child is an exciting event! The news of a new birth travels fast among immediate and extended family members. Between the telephone and all the social media we have today, the grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other extended family members all know usually within 12 hours!
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The Hound of Heaven
The Hound of Heaven
By David Torkington
Before the swinging sixties, before Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley, and even before Bill Haley and the Comets had set these Isles throbbing with the sound of Rock ‘n’ Roll, I fell in love for the first time. I was only sixteen, but it was the real thing.
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Melting Your Heart
Melting Your Heart
By Eric Wojtkun
These are the moments when a parent's heart melts just a little. Between normal conflicts children have over toy ownership, using crayons on someone else's homework, songs being sung too many times, and a dozen other issues we occasionally have little moments where we catch a glimpse of parental heaven.
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Our Great Shepherd
Our Great Shepherd
By Sherry Kenner
Growing up, I loved gazing at the nativity scene my mom would set up under the Christmas tree. My mind would imagine how special that holy night would have been for Mary and Joseph and those lucky shepherds who responded to the angels. The Son of God born in a stable in Bethlehem. What a gift to mankind!
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Christ-Mass!
Christ-Mass!
By De Maria
In this secular world, Christians decry the fact that non-Christians have taken Christ out of Christmas. But that was bound to happen after non-Catholic Christians took the Mass out of Christmas. Christ-mas is Christes Masse, or the Mass of Christ.
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Are you really a strong Christian?
Are you really a strong Christian?
By Wesley Falcao
There are two basic principles that I have come to understand and live out as a Christian. They are so simple and yet so profound that I wish I had understood them a lot earlier!
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Analysis of a Conversion - Why I left the Catholic Church, party time
Analysis of a Conversion - Why I left the Catholic Church, party time
By De Maria
I think it was St. Francis of Assisi or it might have been St. John Vianney, who, having passed by a bar where everyone was singing and enjoying themselves, arrived in Church to witness all the sad faces and quipped, "No wonder the bars are full. Who would want to be a Christian after looking at your gloomy faces?"
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His Presence
His Presence
By Lorrie McNickle
As I sat in Exposition, about a half dozen people with children raucously entered the church and began roaming around taking seats up front by the altar, where are Dear Lord and Savior was exposed in the Monstrance. They were talking with each other in load voices, neglecting any reverence for the Holy Sacrament, and even yelling across the Church at one point.
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My Childhood Pillar of Faith
My Childhood Pillar of Faith
By Eric Wojtkun
I saw my mother with her rosary in hand praying through her asthma attacks when no medicine existed to calm it. I remember her praying when her children encountered challenges to our faith and souls.
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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 11: Beauty
Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 11: Beauty
By Bob Hunt
As humans, we experience that some things are beautiful. While driving through western Montana in the summer of 2013, I was struck by the beauty of the region. Every turn of each corner on the highway revealed yet another postcard of amazing natural beauty. Rivers and streams flowed in valleys carved between forested mountains.
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Have mercy on your children!
Have mercy on your children!
By De Maria
Charity begins at home. Why do Americans kick their children out of their home when they turn 18?
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Teaching to Pray
Teaching to Pray
By Tess Shore
As a catechist to Confirmation students, I am always being asked, "Why does the Church do this or why does the Church have this rule?" It seems no matter how I approach the subject with my students, they do not understand the rules. My students are stressing over picking a Saint's name and writing a paper on the Saint.
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Mary, Mary, I'm Contrary: How to Own Your Spiritual Mother
Mary, Mary, I'm Contrary: How to Own Your Spiritual Mother
By Gwen Evans
I know you are out there, but you are keeping your head down.You may be a convert to Catholicism, an under forty Catholic who just never “got it,”, or a victim of that Intimidating Perfection from the time you could hold the beads in your stubby little fingers. You are the Catholic who doesn’t “get” Mary. You feel a little ashamed, a little annoyed, and confounded as to what to do next.
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Seven things that might surprise you, about the Shroud of Turin
Seven things that might surprise you, about the Shroud of Turin
By De Maria
The Shroud of Turin is the cloth with which Jesus Christ was wrapped after the Crucifixion. Some people would say, the alleged cloth with which He was wrapped. But the matter has been proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt. Why?
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