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Feast Of the Archangels - St. Michael, St.Gabriel, St. Raphael
By Catholic365
How grateful we are for our mighty Archangels, St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael, among the seven Archangels who stand before the Lordl!
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Penance: Not Just for Ash Wednesday
By Madeline Pecora Nugent, CFP
Ash Wednesday = penance, right? At least this is what most Catholics think about penance. But penance means conversion, and conversion is not reserved for Ash Wednesday.
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Should Children Fast?
By Grace Mazza Urbanski
Because my Morning Offering draws me into prayer with the Pope's monthly intentions, I think about Pope Francis every day. And then, of course, I turn on my computer or my phone and see that A LOT of people think about Pope Francis on a daily basis.
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Padre Pio, anachronistic miracles, and grace
By Mary Ashley Burton
Our thoughts turn to St. Padre Pio, whose His Feast Day was celebrated on Tuesday, September 23, 2014.
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Mass and Football
By John Molloy
Why I Stopped Going to Football Games….Do any of these excuses sound familiar from other areas of life? I doubt that these excuses have been used as frequently in reference to sports events as to Sunday Mass.
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Catholics Talk a Lot About Death
By Bill Dunn
For the past fifteen years or so I’ve been in the habit of praying the Rosary while driving to work in the morning. When you say a full Rosary, you recite the “Hail Mary” prayer 53 times. So 53 prayers, times 240 work days in a year, times 15 years equals, um … well, a whole bunch of Hail Marys.
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Signs of Faith
By Sharla Ynostrosa
Hello out there! It's a beautiful, overcast day here in San Angelo, TX. We were blessed with rain overnight, we are always thankful for the rain out here! I just got home from helping out with the Sack Lunch Ministry, our parish, Sacred Heart Cathedral provides for the homeless and other people in need.
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7 Steps to Building a Strong Family Prayer Life
By Kurtis M. Kiesel
In a nutshell, the fact is, something is missing. You have a hole inside of you - we all do - and that hole is bottomless. We try to put things into that hole.
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John 6:53-54
By Renee Oania
John 6:53-54 53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
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Uniting with Christ through Our Senses
By Melanie Jean Juneau
Some ascetics might try to starve their physical senses to sharpen their inner senses, but such a notion seems to me to be contrary to Catholic wisdom and practice. The Catholic Church repudiates Gnosticism, realizing that believers come to a fuller sense of Christ through the totality of their human person.
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Mature Believers
By Sr. Anne Marie
Mature Believers, on November 15, 1972, at a General Audience, Pope Paul VI said the following: "WHAT ARE the Church's greatest needs at the present time? Don't be surprised at Our answer and don't write it off as simplistic or even superstitious: one of the Church's greatest needs is to be defended against the evil we call the Devil."
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Júlia, we chose life!
By Flávia Ghelardi
In the fourth month of pregnancy of my forth daughter, Júlia, I discovered that something was wrong with the baby, and according to the genetic doctor´s opinion, it was probably a rare syndrome (tanatophoric dwarfism) and the baby should die right after birth, and there were also risks for me.
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Gratitude
By Renee Oania
Today was an eye opener for me as I realized there are bad things out there in the world, than in my world. Volunteering my time and giving back has been a great learning experience in my parish.
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Eucharistic Adoration-- Why I Love It
By Rosemary Bogdan
For a number of years now, I have had a regularly scheduled hour to adore the Real Presence of Jesus in the Exposed Blessed Sacrament. I have to say that this hour is a highlight of my week. Why? There are a number of reasons.
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A Prayer for Peace
By Carol Ann Chybowski
All of us who lived through the horror of the events of September 11, 2001 will never forget what we saw and heard and felt on that awful day. We all remember those events in a special way each September 11, as we think back and relive where we were when we first heard the news.
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A Catholic Man's Guide to Purity
By Traditional Catholic Guy
“The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the state of grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most perfect purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the smallest faults; purity will make saints of you! Everything lies in this!” --St. Peter Eymard
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Evangelizing in Caves
By Melanie Jean Juneau
How would you communicate the message of salvation and the subsequent new life in Christ with the unchurched, with people who have no Christian frame of reference or Christian vocabulary?
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