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When Will IT End. The Scourging, and the Crucifixion of Christ!
When Will IT End. The Scourging, and the Crucifixion of Christ!
By Elizabeth Thomas
When Will IT End. The Scourging, and the Crucifixion of Christ! Christ's BODY that is--We His PEOPLE. That thought came into my mind the other day. Images of Christ being crucified began to pop up on Television as we approached Good Friday and Easter.
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Do We Value The Eucharist Enough?
Do We Value The Eucharist Enough?
By E.M. McCarthy
This year the Catholic Church's greatest celebration, the Easter season, has become one of penance. Many cannot receive the Eucharist or go to Confession.
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Divine Mercy and Prayer for Pandemic
Divine Mercy and Prayer for Pandemic
By Kathy Lamb
COVID-19 has touched everyone. The whole world is united in suffering. It’s time to pray. “…have mercy on us and on the whole world.” What are your concerns?
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Our Cross to Bear
Our Cross to Bear
By Chick Todd
As we begin the Octave of Easter and look towards celebrating Pentecost with the Universal Church, we take a few moments to remember what Jesus told us about being a Disciple. It involves the reality of carrying a Cross.
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In the absence of the Mass, Jesus remains
In the absence of the Mass, Jesus remains
By Fr. Jude M. Serfino
What happens when all of a sudden we are told that there will be no Mass on Sunday and other holy days of obligation like during the Easter Season?
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Let God Take Everything
Let God Take Everything
By Charles Fraune
The Church acknowledges and teaches, both in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, that suffering is tied to sin and can be embraced as reparation for sins, both those which we ourselves have committed and those which have been committed by others.
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What Will Your Post-Resurrection Life Look Like?
What Will Your Post-Resurrection Life Look Like?
By Katie Zalany
While Lent with coronavirus for many has been a complete tragedy of suffering, for me, it has been more of an awakening of how I want my life post-resurrection to look like.
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The Loss of the Eucharist?
The Loss of the Eucharist?
By Lorrie McNickle
We are living a crazy moment in history, right this very minute. Yet, those who have gone before us have lived their own peculiar crazy moments of history as well. All the saints withstood struggles, challenges and griefs, yet they rose up and let all of it redeem themselves and all around them.
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COVID causing dire need?
COVID causing dire need?
By Troy Kroening
When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he found himself in dire need. Indeed, we are in dire need. That Scripture comes from the Parable of the Prodigal Son [Luke 15:14]. Whether you believe the pandemic is valid or not, we are in dire need to get through this. And when there appears to be no way out, we can turn to God and know that He can get us th
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This is Me
This is Me
By Ralph Hathaway
This is Me An Ode to the many who have passed.
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Draw Near, O Lord our God
Draw Near, O Lord our God
By Mary Rivers
Tonight the light of the moon appears to be so far away from earth, so high in the sky, one wonders if the hand which guides it has gone astray. “Where are you, Lord? We need your guiding light into our dark troubled world.”
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Not All Churches Are Created Equal
Not All Churches Are Created Equal
By JP Nunez
I’ve heard several people say that any Christian denomination is as good as any other. It doesn’t matter if you’re Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Orthodox, or anything else, as long as you worship the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You often find this way of thinking in certain strands of Protestantism, but I’ve seen it in several Catholics too.
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"But Demons are Liars!" - Why We Can Trust What Exorcists Learn
"But Demons are Liars!" - Why We Can Trust What Exorcists Learn
By Charles Fraune
A very common question that people voice about what exorcists teach is based on the idea that demons lie and, as a result - why should we believe anything demons say?
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Yearning to Go Back to Our Normal Lives
Yearning to Go Back to Our Normal Lives
By Tess Shore
While on a conference call, one of my colleagues made the comment “I can’t wait to go back to my normal life.” Another colleague stated that he was not wanting to go back to his “normal life”. Life, prior to shelter in places and isolation, was about jumping from activity to activity with the family.
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Living The Worthy Life: The Need For Direction
Living The Worthy Life: The Need For Direction
By Michael Cunningham
With many Americans under orders to stay in your house because of the COVID 19 Virus, maybe this is the time to discuss the need for a dynamic person like Bishop Fulton Sheen.
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Resurrection and Hope
Resurrection and Hope
By Mary Rivers
Resurrection from the grave completed the Passion of Jesus Christ and hope of eternal life for us. Hope is always in the future; sins we have committed in the past can be forgiven with the hope we will not sin again in the future.
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Holy Week & Easter During a Time of Pandemic: A Spiritual Meditation
Holy Week & Easter During a Time of Pandemic: A Spiritual Meditation
By Prof. Anthony Maranise, Obl.S.B.
We tend to view the happenings around us through a “me-centered” prism. Some examples help: That four-engine long train is going to make me late for work!; That Dow plunge cost me so much yesterday!; perhaps even, Social distance is making me stir-crazy! How relevant that last one, right?
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