Troy Kroening

Though a great sinner, God has blessed me with a wonderful wife and 8 lovely children, 2 of which have gone to Heaven before leaving the womb.

 

I love the Rosary and started sharing little Catholic reflections with others. My little Catholic reflections have helped deepen my faith and I hope they can help others as well.  Though not always fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, I enjoy when He takes over and seeing what direction He takes the reflection.

 

Please say a prayer for me and I will continue to pray for all who read my little reflections, especially for the inspiration to read them as the Holy Spirit intends.  St. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for the success of my little reflections and for all of Catholic365.com.

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Lent a spiritual fight
Lent a spiritual fight
It might seem odd to call Lent a spiritual fight. After all, fasting is physical and not spiritual, right? Well, not only is fasting spiritual, but abstaining from meat is also spiritual. Indeed, they are both. Our body and soul are not separate pieces that do not affect each other. What we do with one affects the other.
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Getting prepared
Getting prepared
We get ourselves prepared for many things. We prepare to face the outside cold with a coat and possibly gloves and a hat. We prepare ourselves for going to work. We prepare ourselves as best as we can sometimes.
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Jesus pulls us into the love of the Trinity.
Jesus pulls us into the love of the Trinity.
The Trinity is supremely awesome. Three Persons, but one God. Where you find one Person of the Trinity, you find the others. As Jesus said, “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” – [John 14:9] He even goes so far as to say, “I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” – [John 14:11] You see, the Trinity is inseparable.
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Do you have lines that you will not cross or allow others to cross?
Do you have lines that you will not cross or allow others to cross?
I think of these lines as morals. I stand strong to prevent others from crossing this line. We all share many of these. It could be a direct attack on us or a loved one physically. Sometimes though, we have a moral stance that we feel powerless to stop or prevent. Bullying comes to mind right away. The sexual harassments made public come to mind as well.
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If we want things to get better, we must know where we are.
If we want things to get better, we must know where we are.
We want many things to get ‘better’. But do we truly take inventory of where we are? If we do not, how can we know if we got better? And normally, taking inventory is exactly how we determine what it is that we need to do to make things better. The elephant in the room becomes obvious, if we never noticed it before.
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An attack on one person's human dignity is an attack on human dignity itself.
An attack on one person's human dignity is an attack on human dignity itself.
Human dignity belongs to humanity, each and every human. If we deny it to anyone, we have attacked human dignity itself, not just the person(s). Human rights come from human dignity. Your right to free speech and freedom of religion stem from human dignity.
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You can never have too much love.
You can never have too much love.
Having too much of many things are bad for us. Moderation is good. That is, until it comes to love. There can never be too much. The best we can do is to be filled with love. If we moderate love, we are limiting love. We either do so by introducing evil or with indifference to love. Introducing evil is obviously bad, but too many times, we do not see how indifference is so bad.
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Yes, it's still Christmas.
Yes, it's still Christmas.
Despite all of the Christmas celebration before Christmas (during Advent), Christmas does not end on Christmas Day. Indeed, the celebration of Christmas Day itself extends for 8 days. The Octave of Christmas! And not only that, but the Christmas season goes until the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord (Monday, January 8).
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Human dignity in its fullest recognizes humanity as made in the image and likeness of God.
Human dignity in its fullest recognizes humanity as made in the image and likeness of God.
This reality truly puts humanity upon a pedestal. Not that we put ourselves there, but that we recognize that God put us there. With that comes great responsibility. If we are to respect, honor, and love God, are we not to do likewise for the image and likeness of God? One cannot expose a love for Jesus and diminish, destroy, or deny a picture of Jesus, the beloved.
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Charlie Gard: Their Son, Your Son, My Son… Our Son
Charlie Gard: Their Son, Your Son, My Son… Our Son
We are all interconnected. What happens to one of us, happens to us all. Once we permit a wrong against one of us, we ask for the possibility in our own life. The case of Charlie Gard is no different.
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Do we respect the authority of Jesus? Even unclean spirits did!
Do we respect the authority of Jesus? Even unclean spirits did!
Jesus taught with authority. And by His authority, He commanded unclean spirits to flee. Jesus even gave “the Twelve … authority over unclean spirits.” [Mark 6:7] He did not give this authority to all of His disciples, just the Twelve that He chose. And the Twelve “drove out many demons” as we are told later in Mark 6:13.
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Oh, the good I could have done! The sin of omission.
Oh, the good I could have done! The sin of omission.
Many times, we waste our time on meaningless activities when we could have been doing something better. This is not to demean recreational activities as they can re-create/refresh ourselves. We can take them too far, however. Then, they become meaningless, like other activities we sometimes hide ourselves in. Your conscience, like mine, is probably already reminding you what they are.
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If it was a crime to be a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
If it was a crime to be a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
Being a Christian is not about following a great idea. No, it is about following a man named Jesus, who at the same time is God. So, how do we identify a Christian? Jesus charged His disciples to be light and salt.
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Are you ready for the end?
Are you ready for the end?
People may scare us with talk about the End Times or some terrible tragedy that could befall humanity. Sure, we need to be diligent, but we need to be ever more focused on our possible end. Our life could end at any moment. It happens all of the time. And no one has yet to live forever … apart from Jesus.
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The first shall be last and the last shall be first.
The first shall be last and the last shall be first.
Now, this has nothing to do with showing up late to Mass. I am pretty sure that God prefers you be there early. It may be better to ask, are we pushing others down in order to be raised up? At first, we may not see where/if we do this. A good test would be to check our humility.
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