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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

I love Christmas music, but I don't love modern Christmas music.

Ornate Churches

Why build ornate churches? Why did the Catholic Church spend, what would amount to millions of dollars in today's money, to build Saint Peter's Basilica?

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The Mass: Introductory Rites

I have always been fascinated with liturgy and have been drawn to it since I was a child.

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St Patrick is one of the most popular and well know saints, at least in the United States. His feast day is celebrated in almost every city in America, with parades, dinners, and drunken festivities. He's celebrated by not only the Irish diaspora, and not only by Catholics, but by just about every group (in varying ways and levels of enthusiasm) across the racial and religious spectrum.

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Reflecting on Ashes

Ash Wednesday may be behind us, but it would benefit us to remember the readings of that day, and not just during Lent but all year long.

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Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving; The Three Pillars of Lent

Ash Wednesday is fast approaching, and with it the very Catholic anxiety about what we are "giving up for Lent." Many of us focus so much on what we give up - a practice not made mandatory by the Church - that we neglect the three pillars of Lent; prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.

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The Importance of The Old Testament

I've written a few articles on my blog, in a series called The Story of Salvation (Link here), and I just thought I'd take a break from the story to say why it's even important to know and understand the Old Testament.

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Question; Sacred Tradition

As Catholics we do not hold to the Protestant reformation idea of Sola Scriptura (The Bible Alone), we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God and as such should be revered, respected, obeyed, thoroughly studied, and implemented in our daily lives. But we don't look to the Bible as the sole rule of faith.

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Question: Why So Many Divisions in Christianity?

Let's take a look at the divisions that have appeared in the Body of Christ over the centuries. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but more of just a background to our current tens of thousands of Christian denominations.

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Do You Believe This?

The promise of eternal life, and a reason for sufferings. These are the themes of John 11, they really deserve an entire book, and not just an online 2000 word post, but as one of my favorite chapters in the entire Bible I felt like giving it a go here.

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Question; Do Catholics Believe in Mary for Their Salvation?

The only person who has the ability to redeem us is the God who created us, in becoming man and dying as a sacrificial offering for us (Hebrews 10:10-14).

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Advent: The Nativity & The Second Coming

Advent, the English translation of the Latin word adventus meaning "coming", is often thought of as the time leading up to the birth of Christ. While this is right, it is only half right.

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Question: Lineage of Christ

Full Question by Roger: My question is how can our Lord Jesus have lineage with King David when our Lord do not have a blood relation with Saint Joseph?

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The Prodigal Son & His Brother

We've all heard the story of the prodigal son, even non-believers are somewhat familiar with it. I've heard it preached on, lectured about, I've read articles and blog posts about it, I've studied it on my own, but I've always come at it from point of view of the prodigal son himself.

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Question; Brothers of Jesus

The fact that Mary was a virgin, both at the time of the Annunciation, and all the way until her Assumption, is the doctrine of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary.

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