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The Conversion of Saul and the Infinite Merit of Suffering
By David Vermont
Saul’s conversion on the road to Damascus is one of the most famous stories of the New Testament. Let’s look closely at some of the details. To do so first, we must go to Acts 5, where we read: But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
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Memories of First Communion, Sister Mary Claudia, and Catholic School.
By Mallory Hoffman
Our preparation for First Communion began and ended in 2nd grade. We studied. We recited. We learned, and Sister Mary Claudia guided us along the way. She drilled us during religion class about what we were supposed to say in the confessional. Finally, the week came for our First Communion and our First Confession. Before we could receive Jesus, we had to go to confession.
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That Holy Mountain
By Michael Adsit
One afternoon, I was scrolling down the news feed of my Facebook account and came across an individual begging people to pray for a friend of hers, who had hours to live. Without hesitation, I lifted my hands up to God and asked Him to do His will and to bring peace and comfort to those surrounding her at that time. She died an hour later.
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Do You Recognize the Risen Jesus?
By Nina Rizzo
The disciples' plans, dreams, and hopes for a savior king were obliterated on Good Friday when Jesus is beaten, scourged, and nailed to a tree next to common criminals. Unlike the disciples, overcome with despair, we know how the story ends. Victory is ours! Easter morning is in essence a flashback for us.
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Holy Darkness
By Nancy Marie Murray
If there were ever a time in history when the world needed a patron saint of atheists, it surely must be now. And we may just have a candidate, one who is on her way to canonized sainthood: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. Mother Teresa experienced years of darkness in her life of faith, as revealed in her letters published in the book "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light".
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Can We Be Assured Of Salvation?
By Bill Dunn
A core doctrine of Evangelical Protestantism is “once saved, always saved.” This means if a person puts his faith in Jesus and sincerely asks the Lord to come into his heart, then that person is guaranteed to go to Heaven for all eternity. Another term for this doctrine is “assurance of salvation.”
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Mystical Union Is Not a Fairytale
By Melanie Jean Juneau
Twenty-five years ago, my husband discovered a book at a Trappist monastery that changed our lives entitled “Guidelines For Mystical Prayer” by a British Carmelite nun, Ruth Burrows. It is a book that questioned my basic premise about the nature of reality, rekindled joy in my drooping spirit then challenged me to change and to live in mystical union with Christ and to let God live in me.
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Family Trauma: Responding With Control or Love
By Melanie Jean Juneau
In the past six months, my large family of eleven has been tested by multiple traumas; we have been bombarded with illness, cancer and subsequent treatments, a threat of a premature birth of our fifth grandchild and a traumatic birth, celebrated the birth of a fourth grandchild, suffered with a daughter cracking under a combination of duress and post-traumatic stress, commiserated and...
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Who is That Looking at Me?
By Elizabeth Thomas
Most of us every day will be looking into a mirror within five minutes after waking. Inevitably we will be thinking “oh God, look at me---what a mess.” Stay with that thought, or can this be a perfect time to begin a new day, a new beginning—by asking ourselves the question “who are you?”
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Too Sweet for Words
By Joni Johnson
“On the good ship, Lollipop, it’s a sweet trip to a candy shop Where bon-bons play on the sunny beach of Peppermint Bay.” You may be familiar with those words. If not, I refer you to the 1934 movie, “Bright Eyes,” starring Shirley Temple.
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Light of the World
By JoAnne Hudek-Dole
Do you think a streetlamp knows how much light it gives the street and houses it illuminates? Or maybe it feels lost in the darkness - especially if it is on a lonely country road without another streetlamp nearby. What about the sun? Does it feel closed in, surrounded by darkness? So far from the nearest light-emitting star, is it lonely for the light? I wonder.
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50 Days of Cadbury Eggs: Easter Is a Season, Not a Day.
By Nate Lauer
Easter is a season, not a day. The same goes for Christmas. There I said it. I find it utterly confounding at times that so many Christians, Catholic or not, treat Advent and Lent as seasons, as well they should, yet seem to apparently celebrate Easter and Christmas as only one day festivities. Whole seasons of penitential waiting followed by blink of an eye celebrations that quickly pass?
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The Science of Religion: He is Risen
By Robert Italia
After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, approached, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it.His appearance was like lightning and his clothing was white as snow.The guards were shaken with fear of him and became like dead men.
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The Mass is the ANSWER for it is the Most Beautiful Thing This Side of heaven
By Larry Peterson
Something deeply mystical happens on Holy Thursday that many people (this may include some Catholics) do not understand. I refer to the Mass of the Lord's Supper. Lent ends when this Mass begins, which is usually in the evening. This Mass commemorates the night when Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist giving us His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity forever.
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The Other Side of the Stone
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Social surveys have shown that, for reasons unknown, more women than men tend to be late for appointments. But on one momentous occasion—the greatest in human history—women arrived long before any men did. Their early dawn arrival at the scene with embalming spices on that first Easter morn reflected more than mere punctuality.
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Finding the Ultimate Pleasure Park
By Judy Landrieu Klein
We live in a world where pleasure-seeking has become a highly prized ritual. And we keep upping the ante on what constitutes “pleasure.” Sado-masochism is being normalized, evidenced by the immense popularity of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Addiction is rampant, and kids are smoking more than “plain old pot.”
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What Did She Say?!!
By Elizabeth Thomas
“Okay, let it be done. I do not know how God—I don’t know how it is humanly possible to do this on my own. But Father, I trust in You, so if You are asking me to bring into this world Your saving WORD—then let this happen—use me--Father to do Your Will.” (2015 version of Mary’s conversation with Gabriel, and our reply too, when we are asked to bring the Love of Jesus into this world.)
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