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Corpus Christi: An Opportunity To Carry The Living Christ Out Into The World
In as much as it is popular parlance to explain certain events or places as heaven on earth, I find…
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Five Ways To Observe Advent
Advent started on Dec. 2 this year. It can be easy to miss out on this liturgical season because of…
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Give Jesus Your Heart And Home For Christmas This Year
The Christmas season can be a time of distraction for many of us if we permit ourselves to put our…
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Try These Spiritual Practices
Each stage and phase of life has its joys and its sorrows. Jesus tells us in Matthew 11:28–30: Come to…
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Citizens Of Heaven Living As Citizens On Earth
If you are baptized, you are a citizen of heaven — your true home. The saints — the citizens of…
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Respecting Life And The Vocation Of Marriage
Catholics in the United States have, for many years, celebrated the days of October as “Respect Life Month.” On Oct.…
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Aiming Lives Toward The Joy Of Love
God’s voice is never silent ¬—he is in every case continually calling to us to come closer, to go further,…
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Our Journey To Sainthood
We actually have a large list of canonized saints, and most of them are well known to have done amazing…
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Five Bible Facts For Advent
Advent is the best time to learn more about the Gospel stories of Jesus’ conception, birth, and infancy. We call…
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5 Five Good Reasons To Read The Bible
Do you want to know the scriptures better but don’t know where to begin? You’ve come to the right place!…
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Five Suggestions To Strengthen Your Family In Love
What is the one quality that can radically change your family life? Charity! Charity is the theological virtue by which…
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5 Family Mass Rules
Here a few family Mass rules I have observed from wonderful families. They dress up. Dressing up is not easy…
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Five Prayers To Say On Thanksgiving
For appreciating others We appreciate you, Father, for the gift of Jesus your Son who came to our Earth and…
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10 Quotes About Family To Memorize From The Catechism
A new liturgical year started on Nov. 27 with the First Sunday of Advent. This new season is a great…
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Did Jesus Reject the Old Law?
Seeing that Jesus of Nazareth was a faithful Jew, this really shouldn’t be a surprise. Yet throughout the centuries until now,…
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(Mother) Love Conquers All
Mothers’ Day is one of the most important Sundays of the year. Mothers come to Mass joyfully with their children,…
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Symbols Of The Spirit
Part of the richness of our Catholic sacramental life is its tangibility — its gets to our senses. Natural elements…
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The Power of Eucharistic Preaching
Homily for the Eucharistic Gospel Sequence, Year B The Jews gossiped about Jesus because he said, “I am the bread…
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The Feast of God’s Greatest Attribute
Homily for Divine Mercy Sunday 2018 Jesus came and stood among them and declared to them, “Peace be with you”…
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Faith Comes by Hearing
Years back, I read an interesting science article on a predicted earthquake in the Pacific Northwest that seismologists are calling the Really…
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When Does the Church Tolerate Divorce?
We understand that God “detests divorce” (Mal. 2:16); Our Lord and St. Paul explicitly forbid it (Matt. 19:6, 1 Cor. 7-10-11); and…
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Is It a Sin to Disobey Your Conscience?
How much are we meant to follow our conscience in making moral decisions? In a 2013 interview, Pope Francis asserted that…
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Women Disclose Personal Experiences with Abortion in a Survey.
Women have spoken about their personal experiences of abortion and the lack of resources and support which led them to…
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Three Ways to Love Our Friends as Jesus Loves Us
Homily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year B Jesus explained to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so…
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What Are Ghosts?
Most Christians link ghost stories either to natural phenomena or demonic activity. But are these the only two options? The…
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What We Learn From the Gratitude of Our Lady
“You who are most bountiful, do return great favors for small services.” – St. Andrew of Crete Tired and hobbling…
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Is Halloween a Pagan Festival?
Neo-pagan websites states that Halloween was an attempt by early Christians to “baptize” the Gaelic harvest festival of Samhain. Because of…
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The Deep Mystery of Christ’s Blood
The month of July is popularly called the month of the Precious Blood. This is because the first of July is…
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What True Faith Requires
When someone becomes Catholic, he is expected to state, “I believe and profess all that the holy Catholic Church believes,…
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Does Purgatory Deny Christ’s Sacrifice?
Protestant apologists Norman Geisler and Ralph MacKenzie argue that the Catholic dogma of purgatory “in effect denies the adequacy of Christ’s atoning…
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