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Light of the Son in a New Dark Age
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Light of the Son in a New Dark Age

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by on Dec 12, 2016 in Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Live in Christ
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How could it have happened in Canada? At the beginning of the 20th Century, we were a Christian nation, but within 100 years we were a secular nation. We now are even seeing social policy that is anti-Christian by design or in its application. Nowhere is this more evident than in how the most vulnerable […]

Do Old Men Have Dreams?
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Do Old Men Have Dreams?

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by on Nov 29, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ
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“Do old men have dreams?” asked Jeanette as she watched her 88 year old father through the window of the cottage they rented for a week in the Rocky Mountains. Bill Richards was standing alone on the deck looking across a pristine aqua-marine lake after a rainstorm. It was dusk and a beautiful rainbow arched […]

To Hell With Halloween
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To Hell With Halloween

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by on Oct 31, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ
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Twenty-four years ago on Halloween, 42-year-old David Arias began a journey to hell. Ouija boards, drugs, assaults and sacrilege were a regular part of his life. After nearly four years of engaging in extraordinary evil in the pursuit of power, Arias had enough and slowly began to turn back to God for salvation. After an […]

The Blessed Sacrament Gives a Foretaste of Future Glory
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The Blessed Sacrament Gives a Foretaste of Future Glory

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by on Oct 21, 2016 in Catechesis, Featured, Live in Christ
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At the conclusion of his brilliant essay, The Weight of Glory, C.S. Lewis wrote, “Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.” Lewis was right:  The holy Eucharist bears the body of Christ and your neighbor bears the image of God. Your neighbor may not behave in […]

Book Review: <em>Who Does He Say You Are?</em>
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Book Review: Who Does He Say You Are?

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by on Oct 18, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ, On Books
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What would you look like if you could see yourself as Jesus sees you? Who would you be if Jesus healed all your wounds, both physical and emotional? For most of us, the answers to those questions are a far cry from who we are today. We have been beaten down by the weight of […]

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To Repent and Follow Christ

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by on Oct 12, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ
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In Jesus’ parable of the rich man and Lazarus we read: “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; […]

Meant to Be
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Meant to Be

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by on Sep 22, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ
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On September 22, 1290 Bilbo Baggins was born.  The year given for his birth, of course, is in Shire Reckoning: The Shire being that happy part of Middle-Earth inhabited by those sensible and unpretentious folk called “Hobbits.” To that salt-of-the-earth Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, there comes one day an amazing summons.  The call to participate in […]

Longing for Internal Peace
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Longing for Internal Peace

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by on Sep 22, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ
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In the 11 th Chapter of Isaiah we read “The wolf will live with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the kid, He calf and the lion and fatling together, And a little child shall lead them.” The imagery is of a future time of universal peace. There is an innate longing deep […]

Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
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Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows

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by on Sep 15, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ
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The Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is celebrated on September 15th. This feast recalls the seven scriptural references to Mary’s heartache. For a woman who “kept all these things in her heart,” (Luke 2:51) that heart knew a great deal of pain. Heartache often goes hand in hand with parenting. With great love and […]

Book Review: <em>Praying with Mother Teresa</em>
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Book Review: Praying with Mother Teresa

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by on Sep 05, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ, On Books
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In 1986, 21-year-old Susan Conroy traveled to Calcutta to work with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity. She and the holy woman developed a friendship that would last until Mother Teresa’s death in 1997. In Praying with Mother Teresa, Conroy offers her own reflections along with quotes and letters from Mother Teresa, prayers from […]

Plucking the Weeds of Sins
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Plucking the Weeds of Sins

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by on Aug 25, 2016 in Evangelization, Featured, Humor, Live in Christ
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If you have never visited the southwest you might not think anything grows here that doesn’t have a thorn. Our yard, like most in the desert, is a mixture of stone, grass, succulents and tropicals. Now it goes without saying that water is a rare and precious commodity, so you might question the wisdom of […]

My Great Blessing in Suffering
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My Great Blessing in Suffering

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by on Aug 16, 2016 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Live in Christ
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“Lord, help us follow the example of your Son’s patience and endurance. May we face all life’s difficulties with confidence and faith.” — Christian Prayer, Liturgy of the Hours. This is one of the great gifts of our Christian faith: To know that Christ is greater than even the worst of our difficulties. He is […]

The Assumption of Mary: Our Quintessential Catholic Feast!
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The Assumption of Mary: Our Quintessential Catholic Feast!

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by on Aug 15, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ, MyChurchParish.com
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It really is, just think about it.  By defining the dogma of Mary’s Assumption and celebrating it as a Holy Day of Obligation, the Church draws together all the most magnificent elements of our Faith: The Trinity – into whose life Mary was bodily inserted Jesus’ Resurrection – shared with His Blessed Mother, and eventually with all […]

The Kind of Love That Simply Gives
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The Kind of Love That Simply Gives

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by on Aug 15, 2016 in Evangelization, Featured, Live in Christ
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My soul longing, I close my Bible. My desire is to rest — not to relax and take it easy, but to actively find a properly holy place of rest in my heart, mind and soul. I’m not seeking to recline on a Caribbean beach or to cast my gaze down upon a lush, green […]

Fill Your Hands to Love; Empty Your Hands to Pray
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Fill Your Hands to Love; Empty Your Hands to Pray

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by on Jul 15, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ
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One of my favorite saints, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, The Little Flower, often wrote of appearing before God with empty hands, both from the standpoint of having used all of the graces and opportunities to do good works but, also, perhaps, as an expression of intrinsic humility in that we can never fully do enough […]

The Pivotal Point of Christianity
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The Pivotal Point of Christianity

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by on Jul 11, 2016 in Featured, History, Live in Christ
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Have you ever been so heartbroken and your hopes so shattered that you could scarcely consider what your future holds or whether you even had a future? That is what it must have been like for the disciples the day after Jesus was crucified. They had placed their faith in him and dared to hope […]

God Works Through Weakness to Bring Strength to His People
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God Works Through Weakness to Bring Strength to His People

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by on Jun 29, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ, Those in Need
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It was five years ago. The memory is still in my mind.I entered my room to discover my five-year-old grandson looking up at a large crucifix on the wall above my bed. He turned and asked if that really happened. “Yes it did,” I replied. “Did Jesus die?” he asked, turning back to look at […]

Benevolent Global Village is a Myth
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Benevolent Global Village is a Myth

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by on Jun 23, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ, Those in Need
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The architects of a new world order often speak of a global village. Hillary Clinton tells us that it takes a village to raise a child. Are they speaking of the same village? If there is a benevolent global village then where is it and why is so much of humanity exiled from it? If the […]

Extreme Christianity
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Extreme Christianity

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by on Jun 13, 2016 in Evangelization, Featured, Live in Christ, The Feminine Genius, The Homosexual Agenda
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I fancy myself a Christian. I was baptized Catholic and have practiced the faith over fifty years. I’m convinced I will need a lifetime of practice to make any noteworthy progress. My love for the Lord is deep. Teaching, writing, and talking about God, His love for humanity, and the necessity to be authentic witnesses, […]

A Message for Those Who Have Despaired of Life
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A Message for Those Who Have Despaired of Life

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by on Jun 03, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ, Those in Need
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Saint Anthony of Padua said: “Among all things that are lovable, there is one that is more lovable than the rest, and that most lovable thing is life.” Amen. It is in life that love and joy are possible, not death. The Apostle John tells us that Christ is source of life.[1] Christ came that […]

Got To Have Heart – His and Yours!
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Got To Have Heart – His and Yours!

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by on Jun 03, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ
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When God created us, He inserted a heart within our chest, the mechanism that He made to pump blood and oxygen throughout our bodies. We all have one. Most of us rarely take notice of its rhythmic beats. It’s there but we pay little or no conscious attention to it – much like many of […]

Jesus and the Dead Gorilla in the Looking Glass
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Jesus and the Dead Gorilla in the Looking Glass

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by on Jun 01, 2016 in Catechesis, Featured, Live in Christ
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Two radically different strains of Americans emerged over the weekend in response to the Cincinnati Zoo killing a gorilla in order to save the life of a four year-old boy who tumbled into his enclosure. After viewing videos of the gorilla dragging the boy haplessly through the water at great speed, and climbing with the […]

Longings from the Land of Nod
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Longings from the Land of Nod

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by on May 27, 2016 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Live in Christ
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I dreamt of sailing a grand tall ship. Initially gentle billows swelled beneath her massive hull.  Gradually the wind began to pick up and filled the ship’s enormous sails.  Silently the large ship started to move as though being pushed by an invisible hand.  At first, the bow gently sliced through the water as we […]

Book Review: <em>Find a Real Friend in Jesus</em>
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Book Review: Find a Real Friend in Jesus

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by on May 26, 2016 in Featured, Live in Christ, On Books
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Find a Real Friend in Jesus: Ten Amazingly Easy Steps by Gary Zimak could as easily have been titled “The Catholic Guide to a Personal Relationship with Jesus.”  Catholics often think of a personal relationship with Jesus as a Protestant idea, but Jesus wants to be close to all of us and not just in […]