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Anatomy of Envy
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Anatomy of Envy

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by on Sep 18, 2015 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Sunday Reflections
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Recently a prominent CEO told a mixed group of business leaders that, regardless of their religion, they simply had to read the Bible. Why? Because success in business depends not so much upon understanding financial reports as it does upon understanding people. And when it comes to a book that reveals what makes people tick, […]

St. Joseph of Cupertino
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St. Joseph of Cupertino

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by on Sep 18, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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Joseph was born in Cupertino, Italy in 1603. The son of pious parents, he early attained to the love of God. His boyhood and youth were passed in greatest simplicity and in innocent pastimes. But after the Virgin Mother of God had freed him from a long and painful illness – one which he had […]

Reflections for Sunday, September 20, 2015
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Reflections for Sunday, September 20, 2015

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by on Sep 17, 2015 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Sunday Reflections
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Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion Mass Readings: 1st Reading Wisdom 2:12, 17-20 2nd Reading: James 3:16–4:3 Responsorial: Psalm 54:3-6, 8 Gospel: Mark 9:30-37 Saying Yes to Jesus and No to Sin “Where do the conflicts among you come from? (James 4:1) Our minds have the capacity to do amazing things. They can […]

St. Lambert, Bishop, Martyr
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St. Lambert, Bishop, Martyr

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by on Sep 17, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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ST. LAMBERT was a native of Maestricht, in present day Netherlands. His father intrusted his education to the holy Bishop St. Theodard, and on that good man being assassinated, Lambert was chosen his successor. A revolution breaking out which overturned the kingdom of Austrasia, our Saint was banished from his see on account of his […]

St. Robert Bellarmine
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St. Robert Bellarmine

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by on Sep 17, 2015 in Saint of the Day
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St. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) of whom Pope Clement VIII said: “The Church of God had not his equal in learning,” was born of a noble family at Montepulciano in Tuscany, Italy.  He lived a very full life conspicuous for exemplary piety. Brilliant and unusually devout, as a young man he attended the Jesuit College in […]

Sts Cornelius & Cyprian
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Sts Cornelius & Cyprian

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by on Sep 16, 2015 in Saint of the Day, Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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CYPRIAN was an African of noble birth, but of evil life, a pagan, and a teacher of rhetoric. In middle life he was converted to Christianity, and shortly after his baptism was ordained priest, and made Bishop of Carthage, notwithstanding his resistance. When the persecution of Decius broke out, he fled from his episcopal city, […]

St. Catherine of Genoa
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St. Catherine of Genoa

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by on Sep 15, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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She was born in Genoa in 1447, the last of five children.  Rich, exceedingly beautiful, and of noble lineage, Catherine had as a child rejected the solicitations of the world, and begged her divine Master for some share in His sufferings. At sixteen years of age she found herself promised in marriage to a young […]

Our Lady of Sorrows
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Our Lady of Sorrows

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by on Sep 15, 2015 in Saint of the Day
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Our Lady of Sorrows (Latin: Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens), the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows (Latin: Mater Dolorosa, at times just Dolorosa), and Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is referred to in relation to sorrows in her life. […]

A Spoken Word Poem: "Count the Cost"
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A Spoken Word Poem: “Count the Cost”

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by on Sep 13, 2015 in Church Street, Featured, Poetry
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Count the Cost …It’s so easy to guard myself from the essence of sacrifice And play the same mind game and do just enough to get by But that’s not what it is to be great, it’s not what it is to be a saint I don’t want to be dead bones in a box, […]

St. Eulogius, Patriarch of Alexandria
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St. Eulogius, Patriarch of Alexandria

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by on Sep 13, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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ST. EULOGIUS was a Syrian by birth, and while young embraced the monastic state in that country. The Eutychian heresy had thrown the Churches of Syria and Egypt into much confusion, and a great part of the monks of Syria had that time become notorious for their loose morals and errors against faith. Eulogius learned […]

The Most Holy Name of Mary
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The Most Holy Name of Mary

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by on Sep 12, 2015 in Saint of the Day
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The Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary is a feast day celebrated since 1684.  In that year Pope Innocent XI added it to the Church calendar to commemorate the military victory of 1683, when the Turkish army was vanquished before the gates of Vienna, and Europe was delivered from the Muslim scourge. After […]

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St. Guy of Anderlecht

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by on Sep 12, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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AS a child Guy had two loves, the Church and the poor. The love of prayer growing more and more, he left his poor home at Brussels to seek greater poverty and closer union with God. He arrived at Laeken, near Brussels, and there showed such devotion before Our Lady’s shrine that the priest besought […]

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Amen

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by on Sep 11, 2015 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Sunday Reflections
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Pentecostal preachers shout it. Monks chant it. Most Christians end every prayer with it. But what does “Amen” really mean? Is it just a pious way to “log off” our dialogue with God? Actually, most of us have never heard the origins of this word that we use so glibly. But we need to examine it […]

St. Paphnutius, Bishop
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St. Paphnutius, Bishop

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by on Sep 11, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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THE holy confessor Paphnutius was an Egyptian, and after having spent several years in the desert, under the direction of the great St. Antony, was made bishop in Upper Thebais. He was one of those confessors who, under the tyrant Maximin Daia, lost their right eye, and were afterward sent to work in the mines. […]

Reflections for Sunday, September 13, 2015
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Reflections for Sunday, September 13, 2015

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by on Sep 10, 2015 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Sunday Reflections
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Meditations and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion Mass Readings: 1st Reading Isaiah 50:5-9 2nd Reading: James 2:14-18 Responsorial: Psalm 116:1-6, 8-9 Gospel: Mark 8:27-35 What it Means to Deny Ourselves, Take up Our Cross, and Follow Jesus “Peter … began to rebuke him. (Mark 8:32) Peter has a striking insight and dares to express […]

St. Nicholas of Tolentino
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St. Nicholas of Tolentino

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by on Sep 10, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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BORN in answer to the prayer of a holy mother, and vowed before his birth to the service of God, Nicholas never lost his baptismal innocence. His austerities were conspicuous even in the austere Order — the Hermits of  St. Augustine — to which he belonged, and to the remonstrances which were made by his superiors […]

St. Peter Claver
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St. Peter Claver

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by on Sep 09, 2015 in Saint of the Day, Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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PETER CLAVER was a Spanish Jesuit. In Majorca he fell in with the holy lay-brother Alphonsus Rodriguez, who, having already learned by revelation the saintly career of Peter, became his spiritual guide, foretold to him the labors he would undergo in the Indies, and the throne he would gain in heaven. Ordained priest in New […]

Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, The Joy of the Gospel
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Front Row With Francis: The Family and Evangelization

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by on Sep 07, 2015 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, The Shepherd's Voice
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Continuing his catechesis on the importance of the family, Pope Francis’ latest audience is on the role families play in evangelization. Whenever we think about evangelizing, we tend to think of it as something individuals do. We seldom pay attention to the role families have in this critical process. The first and most important role […]

St. Cloud, Confessor
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St. Cloud, Confessor

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by on Sep 07, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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ST. CLOUD is the first and most illustrious Saint among the princes of the royal family of the first race in France. He was son of Chlodomir, King of Orleans, the eldest son of St. Clotilda, and was born in 522. He was scarce three years old when his father was killed in Burgundy; but […]

St. Eleutherius, Abbot
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St. Eleutherius, Abbot

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by on Sep 06, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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WONDERFUL simplicity and spirit of compunction were the distinguishing virtues of this holy man. He was chosen abbot of St. Mark’s near Spoleto, Italy (see photo) and favored by God with the gift of miracles. A child who was possessed by the devil, being delivered by being educated in his monastery, the abbot said one […]

St. Laurence Justinian
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St. Laurence Justinian

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by on Sep 05, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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LAURENCE from a child longed to be a Saint; and when he was nineteen years of age there was granted to him a vision of the Eternal Wisdom. All earthly things paled in his eyes before the ineffable beauty of this sight, and as it faded away a void was left in his heart which […]

Is Tradition a Four Letter Word?
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Is Tradition a Four Letter Word?

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by on Sep 04, 2015 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Sunday Reflections
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One of the great battle cries of the Protestant Reformation was “sola scriptura!” Many thought that the Catholic Church had cluttered up the simple Christian faith by adding all sorts of practices, customs and doctrines over the centuries. They thought the Church in their day was guilty of exactly the same Pharisaical obsession with traditions […]

St. Rosalia, Virgin, & St. Rose of Viterbo
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St. Rosalia, Virgin, & St. Rose of Viterbo

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by on Sep 04, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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ST. ROSALIA was daughter of a noble family descended from Charlemagne. She was born at Palermo in Sicily, and despising in her youth worldly vanities, made herself an abode in a cave on Mount Pelegrino, three miles from Palermo.  There she completed the sacrifice of her heart to God by austere penance and manual labor, […]

St. Gregory the Great, Pope
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St. Gregory the Great, Pope

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by on Sep 03, 2015 in Saint of the Day
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GREGORY was a Roman of noble birth, and while still young was governor of Rome. On his father’s death he gave his great wealth to the poor, turned his house on the Cœlian Hill into a monastery, which now bears his name, and for some years lived as a perfect monk. The Pope drew him […]