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Why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?
By Katie Talarico
One night this past week, the pain of life took hold of me. I wept almost the entire night. I longed to be comforted by someone--anyone and I could barely recognize God in my midst. Of course, my prayer was not answered which made matters worse.
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More Than Words
By E.M. McCarthy
Words matter. Anyone who has seen the way news outlets write about abortion will understand why they use words like: abortion providers, anti-abortion protesters, abortion rights activists, abortion foes, access to abortion, and the right to decide. These subtly make pro-lifers out to be heartless and backward and cruel.
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Church Volunteers - the Hands and Feet of Christ
By BJ Gonzalvo
Church volunteers make the parish vibrant. They are the backbone of the Church. They come from different backgrounds serving as altar servers, Eucharistic ministers, musicians, catechists, lectors, kitchen servers, and yes, volunteers include our priests and nuns.
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The Conception of Christ
By Carol Monaco
To save us from damnation, God conceived a plan—and in this conception comes Jesus Christ who is the way, the truth, and the life. This masterful plan, flawless in every detail, is God’s loving gift to each of us—ours to accept or reject. A choice made possible by Mary who chose to accept Christ’s conception within her—body and soul.
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When God Doesn't Give You the Cry of Your Heart
By Katie Talarico
The cries of the heart. Our hearts bleed for what they desire and yearn for. Often the cry of my heart is placed right in front of me and yet out of reach.
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POPE EUGENE I, NO ONE'S PUPPET
By Debra Booton McCoy
Pope Martin was kidnapped by the exarch of Emperor Constans II on June 17, 653. He was swept out of Rome the next day and never stepped back on the Italian peninsula again. Then he was sent into exile and died in Cherson, Crimea, September 16, 655.There was no pope leading the Church from that date forward.
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With Thanks to Sr Wendy Beckett
By David Torkington
This is the first year that I did not have a Christmas Card from Sr Wendy Beckett. Instead I had a little note from Sr Stephanie, the Prioress of the Carmelite monastery at Quidenham to say that her health was failing, but that she was happy and at peace. She died on 26th December 2019.
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Is God Superman?
By Victor S E Moubarak
Let us consider for a moment our relationship with God. Let's start with our prayer life. How do we view God?
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The Devil's Freaky Friday | Liberal Corporality and Conservative Spirituality: Communism and Relativism
By Scott Pauline
Liberal Christianity is bent on making this world a better place physically. It is soft both ways: soft-hearted and soft-headed.
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The Roman Canon (Eucharistic Prayer I) Take a peek inside the Love that is the Holy Trinity
By Larry Peterson
I attended Christmas Day Mass at 8 a.m. in my church; Sacred Heart in Pinellas Park, FL. We have a Mercedarian priest, Father Mike Donovan, who has been with us for several months and he was the celebrant. Father used the Roman Canon in this Mass. (Canon is the word used that refers to the fundamental part of the Mass that occurs between the Offertory and before Communion).
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Wise Men from the East
By Sue Hallett
At Mass this morning, as always, we began with prayer intentions,
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New Year---New Day!
By Elizabeth Thomas
"This is the day that the Lord has made." Waking up everyday---sometimes I have to be reminded of this fact. This is the day that the LORD has made for me! Let us see what is in it.
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"Relativism is a poison. It attacks our most human capacity, the capacity to seek and know the truth, including the moral truth. A dictatorship of relativism imposes by real cultural force (and even by political force) a no-standard standard, a command that all must imbibe this poison."
By Joe Reciniello
One of the difficulties of our Christian journey is to have to understand the teachings of Jesus, given our limited human capability to understand. How can we never be hungry and never be thirsty? Even with the scientific advancements of the 21st century, there hasn't been a discovery of a certain food or drink that can sustain us forever.
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St. Dominic of Silos…His intercession is credited with the birth of St. Dominic, the Founder of the Dominicans
By Larry Peterson
Dominic of Silos was born in the year 1000 to a family of peasants. Their home was on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees Mountains, in Navarre, Spain. At an early age, Dominic was out in the fields working as a shepherd boy helping his father to manage their flocks. It was during these early years that Dominic developed a love of solitude.
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The Passion of Patience: Ordinary, Banal and Impossible... Alone
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
The phrase, “passion of patience” is not my own but instead is gleaned from the writings of Venerable Madeleine Debrel, former atheist turned Catholic apologist who lived and died during the last century. Her poem of the same begins with this searing line: The patiences, these little pieces of passion, whose job is to kill us slowly for your glory, to kill us without our glory...
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