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This is the Weekend
This is the Weekend
By John C Prejean Sr.
When I was influenced more by the world than by Christ, I used to dread this weekend…the weekend before the Super Bowl and after the regular season when there was no football on at all. Now they have the Pro Bowl the week before the Super Bowl so there is that fix for the football junkies.
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Normally
Normally
By Mallory Hoffman
Normally... Normally, I don't wake up at 3:45 AM. 5:30 is my preference, but today I woke up very early. Normally, I eat sparingly for breakfast not wanting to blast my blood sugars into high gear so early. Yet, this morning, I cooked a full breakfast and enjoyed every bite!
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Prayers for the Oppressed: A Visit From Our Lady
Prayers for the Oppressed: A Visit From Our Lady
By Brett Schmidt
I never wanted to be Catholic. In fact it was a last ditch effort to find a church before my husband and I started a family. I was terrified when I saw our priest. I'd never seen a priest in real life, but there he was, all in black and so eager and excited to see a new face.
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Don't Let "Ordinary Time" be ordinary!
Don't Let "Ordinary Time" be ordinary!
By Christopher Smith OP
As I write this, it is the Monday in the Second Week of Ordinary Time in the Liturgical Calendar. During the last seven weeks, we had a whirlwind of liturgical events. We had four weeks of Advent followed by Christmastide, which, as if it wasn't significant enough, included the Feast of the Holy Family (Dec 28th) and the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God (Jan 1st).
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This Is What Depression Can Do!
This Is What Depression Can Do!
By Elizabeth Thomas
For 6 months in 2014, I had been dealing with unknown illness and even the possibility of leukemia. One day I wrote this blog, as writing is very therapeutic for my soul. This is what depression does. Yesterday, mentally my brain did not seem to want to work, my mood was down and who cares what I do or do not do
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Catch the Butterfly
Catch the Butterfly
By Katherine V Urquidi
The other day I was listening to a program on Catholic Family Radio. The host caught my attention when she was speaking to a caller asking about what to do when her prayer or meditation time was distracted by other thoughts. “Boy,” I thought, “That happens to me.” Along with thoughts about what a poor example I must be, unworthy, selfish.
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Oh Those Bells
Oh Those Bells
By Elizabeth Thomas
Each day is like the blank piece of paper that appears when you pull up Microsoft Word. Unknown just what will be written as you let the Holy Spirit start the flow of thoughts going forth. There is the sound of the college bells ringing softly in the background as I write.
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How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
By Michael Ripple
Almost every morning I enjoy the luxury of listening to my son practice his oboe. Starting at the break of dawn, like a morning prayer—Haydn and Tchaicovsky and some etudes by Barret echo in the winter dark through our house in the woods.
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Unyielding Love, Given to God
Unyielding Love, Given to God
By Matthew Johnson
We must sing to Him Songs of unending Love Love that He shows us always
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Heart Conditioning
Heart Conditioning
By Joni Johnson
“If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts.” Psalm 95 You have probably heard this psalm response many times at Mass. It is a commonly used refrain, and is used many times throughout the liturgical year.
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The Woman of My Dreams
The Woman of My Dreams
By Kara Klein
Recently at the national Focus conference I heard gifted speaker Sara Swafford tell a group of single young women: “Become the woman of your dreams and you’ll attract the man of your dreams.” This struck a deep chord in me.
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Context Is Everything
Context Is Everything
By Jen Schlameuss-Perry
When I was a little kid, I used to love listening to the stories that my great-grandmother would tell. She was born in Sicily in 1898 and had a very full, very interesting life. She was a tiny woman with a quiet voice and a very nostalgic heart when I knew her, and she was one heck of a story-teller.
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Destiny and the Blessing of Fathers
Destiny and the Blessing of Fathers
By Sr. Anne Marie
Deprivation can be an awful thing. There are many serious poverties in the world today. But there is one poverty that is perhaps too easily overlooked and yet has some of the most far-reaching effects upon destiny that one can imagine. This is the poverty that comes from the lack of blessing, and specifically the lack of a father's blessing.
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You Can Get Here From There: Part II -- CCD
You Can Get Here From There: Part II -- CCD
By Dean P. Johnson
I hated CCD. I hated it when it was on Saturday mornings. While other kids were lounging late into the morning still clad in their pajamas, spooning down a second bowlful of Capt. Crunch with Crunchberries as they watched Scooby Doo or Josie and the Pussycats or Inch High Private Eye or Hong Kong Phooey, I was sitting slumped in some Catholic school kid’s desk.
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Blessed, Blessing, Blessings!!
Blessed, Blessing, Blessings!!
By Charlotte Ostermann
In case you missed my first post in this series, I am leading a Catholic Bible Study through the lens of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC). This is opening up the Scriptures in a marvelous new way for me – giving St. Paul’s letter an ecclesial dimension I’d never seen in my favorite book of the Bible while loving it as only an Evangelical Christian can.
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How to Discern a Third Order Vocation
How to Discern a Third Order Vocation
By Madeline Pecora Nugent, CFP
Picture this. You are at a friend's party and an attractive person of the opposite sex meets your eye. You can't help overhearing the laughter of that other one and the comments made about topics that interest you. You make a comment yourself and now you are part of the engaging conversation.
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You Can Get Here From There (Part 1)
You Can Get Here From There (Part 1)
By Dean P. Johnson
They say that hindsight is 20/20. Well, if that were true, we would all learn so clearly from our experiences and mistakes that there would be little need for ongoing growth, learning, formation. Hindsight is more 50/50: Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you don’t.
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