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Arguing with Grace
Arguing with Grace
By Caroline Godin
St. Bernadette was quoted to have said, “My job is to inform, not to convince.” Key advice in a controversial world. Mention any of these topics and watch the comments explode: gay marriage, abortion, religious freedom, Christian persecution, state of Palestine, etc.
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Symbols... are they important?
Symbols... are they important?
By Pat McDermott
How many of us remember times when we walked in to a Church (our parish or one we visited) and saw some strange items either hanging from the ceiling or displayed someplace prominent? I know I have. I wonder sometimes if the goal is to look pretty or to mean something.
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My "Universal" Family
My "Universal" Family
By LaJuan Tallo
I resisted the urge to tag this post with something like outer space, extraterrestrial, or aliens, although it would have been funny. On the other hand, it may have brought some traffic I didn't want. When I say I have a universal family I mean it.
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Dear God Letters--Wheeling Valor
Dear God Letters--Wheeling Valor
By Dom Perry
I sat on the bench looking about, and wondered the experiences they encountered as many of them wheeled along, coming and going--the automatic doors opening and closing--brave men and women arriving or leaving their doctors appointments. The VA Hospital had just reopened its newly constructed front entrance with the attendants assisting many of the wheeled chair patients to and from their cars.
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Integrity
Integrity
By Mary Rivers
Seeing the wholeness of God’s words of truth, The summation of the fruits of the Holy Spirit implanted within us at Confirmation, The fullness of the relationship between God and man
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Gratitude Attitude
Gratitude Attitude
By Carolyn Astfalk
This article was born while I changed a poopy diaper. Not so surprising since I do a lot of that. As is sometimes the case, my toddler fought my effort to make him clean, pleasant-smelling, and rash-free by flailing around, threatening to inadvertently smear feces over everything within heiney's reach.
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What Holds The World Together
What Holds The World Together
By Judy Landrieu Klein
Cut away the umbilical cord, but don’t cut away the heart. Because the heart—the feminine heart—helps hold the world together. I watched today with tears in my eyes as the women of the Our Lady of the Lake Altar Society processed up the center aisle of the church, carrying roses and bouquets for the annual May crowning while singing hymns to Our Lady.
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Choosing Love Over Death
Choosing Love Over Death
By Mary Ann Gambill
We live with pain just over the horizon. It's there. It never goes away or even fades. It sometimes peeks through, over the hills, and washes over us unexpectedly. It can take our breath away. It can catch us when we round a bend or cross a path, without warning or mercy.
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Forgiveness
Forgiveness
By Sarah Aten
“It’s the hardest thing to give away and the last thing on your mind today. It always seems to go to those who don’t deserve. It’s the opposite of how you feel when the pain they caused is just too real. It takes all you have just to say the word…”
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How I've Come to Reconcile with the Sacrament of Reconciliation
How I've Come to Reconcile with the Sacrament of Reconciliation
By Karen Cubberly
Grace is one of the most powerful gifts that I think we can get directly from God. In 2 Corinthians 12:9, it states,“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.”
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The Healing of a Soul
The Healing of a Soul
By Susan Skinner
My soul was broken only to be rebuilt again. The walls of what I knew torn down, and with it God made something more beautiful than I imagined.
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O Sanctissima: Memories of May
O Sanctissima: Memories of May
By Carolyn Astfalk
My memories of May are bound to May altars and crownings. In the small Catholic grade school I attended, the May crowning was not an annual event as it is in my children's school.
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On Grace
On Grace
By Crysaly Aviles
“Our justification comes from the grace of God. Grace is favor, the free and underserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and eternal life,” (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1996).I think of grace as a place. It’s that place where in spite of me I am accepted exactly as I am.
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Can You See the High Road?
Can You See the High Road?
By Emily Borman
Sometimes life hurts. Invariably, when I feel hurt, my first impulse is to lash out at whomever I perceive to be the cause of my pain. I’m not consciously trying to punish them; I’m just erupting in reaction to the injury. This doesn’t work very well. Things proceed much more smoothly when I try to find the high road.
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Praying Without Ceasing
Praying Without Ceasing
By Mariel Roersma
For the past almost 3 weeks, I've been trying to find a way to put this into words. At this time almost 3 weeks ago, I was feeling distant from God, and just plain sick of all the bad in the world. Then the unexpected happened.
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The Spirit Gives Life
The Spirit Gives Life
By Gwen Evans
Catholic lay evangelist Babsie Bleasdell was often frustrated when the poor folks she served in her little community bought her expensive gifts. Babsie regularly dismissed or returned them when she could. Once, at the end of a long day of trying to cook beans that refused to soften (despite her best efforts), a knock came at the door.
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Awake oh my soul, Awake!
Awake oh my soul, Awake!
By Elizabeth Thomas
Daily, I have three alarm clocks—two cats and one dog. By 6 am at the latest, they have me up—to toilet and to feed. This morning as I tried to lie down again, I realized –“no use, I am awake.” “What is wrong with awake?”
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