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Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, The Joy of the Gospel
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Front Row With Francis: On the Role of the Bishop

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by on Nov 07, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, The Shepherd's Voice
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Pope Francis continued his teaching on the nature of Church with this week’s General Audience. There were a few quotes and themes at the heart of this week’s message. Pope Francis stated early in the audience, “Now, in the power and grace of His Spirit, Christ does not fail to give rise to ministries, in […]

Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, The Joy of the Gospel
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Front Row With Francis: The Church and the Beatitudes

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by on Aug 08, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured, The Shepherd's Voice
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Pope Francis resumed his catechesis on the Church, during his first General Audience since June. He focuses this week’s teaching on how Jesus fulfills the Old Testament by giving a new teaching on mercy in the beatitudes. Key Points: 1.)“John points to Jesus and calls us to follow him in repentance and conversion. The new […]

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Front Row With Francis: The Gift of Knowledge

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by on May 23, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, The Shepherd's Voice
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In the May 21, 2014, Wednesday Audience on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, (this week focusing on The Gift of Knowledge), Pope Francis spoke several times about various gifts God offers us. First, let us examine the idea of gift.  Each of us has experienced physically receiving a gift especially on a special occasion […]

Seek the Lord
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Seek the Lord

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by on Apr 19, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Live in Christ
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Easter Vigil Reading 5 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call him while he is near. Let the scoundrel forsake his way, and the wicked man his thoughts; let him turn to the LORD for mercy; to our God, who is generous in forgiving. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are […]

Peter's Denial and Ours
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Peter’s Denial and Ours

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by on Apr 15, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Live in Christ
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How many of us can relate to Simon Peter’s desire to stand beside Jesus, steadfast and true? Those very same people can, I am sure, also relate to Peter’s denial of Jesus. As St. Paul would say, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. As we grow in our own discipleship of Jesus Christ, […]

Where Do You Belong?
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Where Do You Belong?

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by on Apr 08, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Live in Christ
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“You belong to what is below; I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world.” I have a lot of crazy things to belong. Most were embarrassing or even downright stupid: such as smoking, swearing and pretending you had an active sex life, skipping school, […]

Do You Want to Be Well?
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Do You Want to Be Well?

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by on Apr 01, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Live in Christ
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There are so many ways we can be sick — physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, we even use the word to refer to being fed up with something. Most people do not wish to or like to be sick. As a mother, I am often heard saying, “I don’t have time to be sick.” As a […]

The Annunciation and God's Favor
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The Annunciation and God’s Favor

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by on Mar 25, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured
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From today’s gospel: “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.” An interesting choice of words from the Angel Gabriel, “Favor with God”.  This has to be where Mary’s fullness of grace comes in because if I was told I had favor with God and then my life went on the […]

Shedding our Inner Pharisee
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Shedding our Inner Pharisee

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by on Mar 18, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured, Live in Christ
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Jesus warned to not be like the scribes and Pharisees, “For they preach but they do not practice,” another way of looking at that, “practice what you preach.” Likewise, many of us can think of at least one example in our lives, either now or in the past, when this could be said about us. […]

This is How You Are to Pray
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This is How You Are to Pray

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by on Mar 11, 2014 in Featured, Live in Christ
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Jesus says, “This is how you are to pray.” We are, then, blessed with the most beautiful prayer, shared with us by Jesus: The Lord’s Prayer, also known as the Our Father. Today, we are still in the early days of our 2014 Lenten journey. How many of us are asking Jesus to teach us […]