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Our Lady of Guadalupe, Caceres
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Caceres
By De Maria
The 12th of December marks the day that we celebrate the Apparition of Our Lady, to St. Juan Diego in Mexico in the year 1531. It is said that due to that apparition, 8 million pagan Indians turned to Catholicism. It is also said that this was to make up for the 8 million Catholics who had followed Luther into Protestantism.
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A Little Quiet. Please.
A Little Quiet. Please.
By Gail Berna-Dompke
I negotiated the weekend with my family. I am a fan of Thomas Merton and wanted to have a glimpse at the monastic life. The quiet was appealing to me also. To suggest this is a bit of a stretch for me is quite an understatement.
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On Being "Old School"
On Being "Old School"
By Nicholas LaBanca
It’s an obvious fact of life that we Christians live in “the world”. That is, we live in the world as opposed to our true home, eternity in Heaven with God. And so as we live in the world, there are a myriad of different people, ideas and ideologies, cultures and moral codes.
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Where is Confession in the Bible?
Where is Confession in the Bible?
By De Maria
This is one of the few Catholic Doctrines that you will actually find explicitly mentioned in Scripture. Even so, Protestants deny it.
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The Comfort of Purgatory
The Comfort of Purgatory
By Mike Bugal
As a former Evangelical Christian Apologetics writer, teacher and preacher reverting to the Catholic Church the Doctrine of Purgatory has been probably the hardest teaching of the Church with which to come to grips. Although similar concepts are not unknown within the pale of mainline Evangelical thought they are neither common nor exactly the same as Purgatory.
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The Redeeming Work of the Holidays
The Redeeming Work of the Holidays
By Mary Ann Gambill
This work, family redemption, comes at a heavy price, often dipping into the pockets of what we thought family meant in the first place. In my early married years we would go to his parents house or mine. We would make the rounds. I would make a dish sometimes, but most of the time, we only brought ourselves, presents, and the one or two children that we had way back then.
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Advent and Kids: 10 Inexpensive Ways to Instill the True Meaning
Advent and Kids: 10 Inexpensive Ways to Instill the True Meaning
By Olivia Swyden
We are already about 1 week into Advent, and here I am finally trying to find fun and spiritual things to do with my kids to help them grow up knowing that Christmas is truly about the birth of Dear Lord Baby Jesus instead of Elsa the Ice Queen, candy, movies, mischievous elves, or whatever the hay it is they want Santa to bring them.
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Taking Baby Jesus on Retreat
Taking Baby Jesus on Retreat
By Karee Santos
For practically every silent retreat during the past fifteen years, I had been either pregnant or nursing. I had gotten used to rearranging the furniture in the tiny retreat house bedroom, so the baby could nestle safely between my body and the wall while we slept at night. This year, my sixth and youngest child had already turned five years old.
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From Jail to Jesus
From Jail to Jesus
By Richard Maffeo
I published what you are about to read sometime around 2001. Now that Calvin is dead, I am urged to tell it again because it is the ageless story of how Christ really can change a person. It’s the story of what true conversion is all about.
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Can you prove the Assumption of Mary from the Bible?
Can you prove the Assumption of Mary from the Bible?
By De Maria
Is there a way to prove the Assumption of Mary other than saying "the Church says so" to a Protestant? I think so, keeping in mind that, “For some, no proof is necessary. For others, no proof is ever enough.”
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The Beauty of the Catholic Mass: the Journey from "Feel-Good Experience" to Arrival at Substantive Faith.
The Beauty of the Catholic Mass: the Journey from "Feel-Good Experience" to Arrival at Substantive Faith.
By Robert E.J. Campbell
The Catholic Mass is in a word, beautiful. The perfect balance between Liturgy of the Word and Liturgy of the Eucharist, where we gather around the Lord's table and witness once again but forever anew, Christ's ultimate act of love and unimaginable sacrifice, all for the sake of each one of us and our own salvation.
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Today's surrender comes
Today's surrender comes
By Helen Losse
in the silent desert of midnight darkness, the quiet solitude of my own room, where temptations I must resist show up again, where not even the moon gives light to my unrehearsed prayer
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One Scandalous Silent Night
One Scandalous Silent Night
By E.M. Wilson
So in case you haven't heard the show Scandal had an episode featuring the main character Olivia something or other (obviously not a viewer) getting an abortion to the tune of Silent Night.
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Hormones and Hair Shirts
Hormones and Hair Shirts
By Teresa Hurst
There’s no rational explanation why sometimes I will be in a deep, sleeping nirvana, and suddenly, bing, my eyes pop open, at which time my body calls it quits. All done sleeping. That’s been the case the last couple of nights. Hormones. It’s the menopausal ‘’crazy juice” coursing through my veins and brain that often cause me to operate a tad out of bounds.
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Satan the Scapegoat
Satan the Scapegoat
By Jonathan Hayes
On the one hand, it is unfortunately rare for people to believe in the existence of Satan and other demons. Rather, they may believe that Satan is simply a symbol of evil, a myth, or some other nonliteral idea introduced into religious thought and writings. This view is unhistorical, unbiblical, and irrational in the face of evidence supporting the existence of demons.
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The Decision to Veil
The Decision to Veil
By Tess Shore
December 8 is a Holy Day of Obligation. It is the day of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a day to honor Mary being conceived and not having any sin. Just as Mary humbled herself before God, many women chose to symbolize their own humbling by wearing a veil in the Church. Many women veiled prior to the Second Vatican.
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Play Time
Play Time
By E.M. Wilson
So the other day I ended up babysitting my second cousins (that is the unspoken glory of a large extended family, your cousins bring their kids over and you end up watching them while they catch up with your parents/the rest of their immediate family). This would be far more annoying I'm sure if my second cousins weren't completely awesome.
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