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Book Review: Style, Sex, & Substance
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Book Review: Style, Sex, & Substance

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by on May 14, 2012 in Columnists, Dating & Singles, Featured, Live in Christ, Marriage, Men, On Books, On the Job, Parenting, Women
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Style, Sex, & Substance: 10 Catholic Women Consider the Things that Really Matter, edited buy Hallie Lord, is full of spiritual truths and spunk! The ten women who each tackle a different current issue seem to hit most of the hot topics usually found splashed across the covers of women’s tabloids, but from a Catholic [...]

He Has Risen, Alleluia! We Have Risen With Him, Alleluia! Part 2
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He Has Risen, Alleluia! We Have Risen With Him, Alleluia! Part 2

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by on May 09, 2012 in Featured, Men
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This is the second article on the theme, “He Has Risen, Alleluia! We Have Risen With Him, Alleluia!”  Isn’t this what this grace-filled Easter Season is all about? For this second article, I am using the opening words of the book, The Binding of The Strong Man, The Teachings of St. Leo the Great by [...]

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To Weed or Not to Weed…That is the Question

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by on May 05, 2012 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Men, MyChurchParish.com
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Without any kind of a deep freeze this past winter, the weeds have had a field day (pun intended) this spring.  I don’t know about your neighborhood, but ours is totally infested with chickweed.  Now, chickweed looks innocent enough, with its dainty little white flowers and delicate stems, but don’t be fooled.  It’s a cold-blooded [...]

God and the Elderly
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God and the Elderly

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by on May 02, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Men, Women
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Belief in God increases with age. That is the finding of a longitudinal study by researchers at the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center. The Center conducted three surveys on religious faith, questioning people of different age groups in 30 different countries. The surveys—conducted in 1991, 1998, and again in 2008—explored the range of [...]

Men and Abortion
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Men and Abortion

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by on Apr 25, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Men
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In 1971, my girlfriend became pregnant with our baby. I pressured her to have an abortion; eventually she succumbed to the pressure and had an abortion. For decades I regretted my role in that abortion. Throughout the years, feminists have emphatically maintained that abortion is a “women’s issue” that does not affect men. They must  [...]

Trusting the Lord in Difficult Circumstances
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Trusting the Lord in Difficult Circumstances

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by on Apr 24, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Men
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When it was evening, his disciples went down to the sea, embarked in a boat, and went across the sea to Capernaum. It had already grown dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The sea was stirred up because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed about three or four miles, [...]

Cleveland Indians’ Player Thankful
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Cleveland Indians’ Player Thankful

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by on Apr 10, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Men, Sports
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If you ask Jack Hannahan what he’s thankful for, be prepared to listen for a while. Hannahan, 32, has plenty to appreciate, starting with the realization of his dream of playing in the major leagues. In 2001, he was named Big Ten Player of the Year at the University of Minnesota and was drafted in [...]

He Has Risen, Alleluia! We Have Risen With Him, Alleluia!
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He Has Risen, Alleluia! We Have Risen With Him, Alleluia!

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by on Apr 07, 2012 in Featured, Men
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As we approach Easter Sunday and the beginning of the Easter Season let us take time to reflect on the extraordinary and undeserved gift we have received through Jesus’ passion, death, and resurrection — our sins have been forgiven and we are now sharers of eternal life with Christ. The second reading from the Easter [...]

Lent: A Time to Ask, Seek, and Knock
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Lent: A Time to Ask, Seek, and Knock

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by on Mar 22, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Men
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Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.  Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? [...]

“Sorry” Seems to be the Hardest Word
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“Sorry” Seems to be the Hardest Word

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by on Mar 21, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Men, Women
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The association of being a Christian and a Catholic comes with a great personal responsibility. It is no doubt an expectation of those who know us to be a Christian that we act like one. This is a natural expectation. People seem to lose the focus about what they expect from a Christian when it [...]

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Two Josephs, Both Alike in Chastity

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by on Mar 19, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured, Men
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With our attention upon St. Joseph today, it might be good to look back at the Old Testament figure for whom Mary’s chaste spouse was most likely named. That would be Joseph, son of Jacob, grandson of Isaac, and great-grandson of Abraham. Joseph is a popular name for Jewish boys precisely as a memorial of this [...]

Lent: A Time to Say Yes to Following Jesus
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Lent: A Time to Say Yes to Following Jesus

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by on Mar 09, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Men
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Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him. (Luke 5:27-28) As he was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew, [...]

Lent: A Time to Save Your Life by Losing It
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Lent: A Time to Save Your Life by Losing It

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by on Mar 01, 2012 in Featured, Men
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“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit [...]

Growing in Expectant Faith as Catholic Men
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Growing in Expectant Faith as Catholic Men

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by on Feb 22, 2012 in Featured, Men
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This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel. (Mark 1:15) Whatever town you enter and they welcome you, eat what is set before you, cure the sick in it and say to them, “The kingdom of God is at hand for you.” (Luke 10:9) [...]

Bringing Souls to Jesus through the Four Men Prayer Groups
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Bringing Souls to Jesus through the Four Men Prayer Groups

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by on Feb 16, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Men
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I would like to introduce you to an exciting new men’s prayer group based on the Gospel of Mark’s story of Four Men who brought their paralyzed friend to Jesus for healing.  Through their faith they obtained their friends’ healing and the even greater miracle of the forgiveness of his sins.  Members of this prayer [...]

Top Five Dating Tips for Men
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Top Five Dating Tips for Men

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by on Feb 13, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured, Men
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This Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d do something different.  People who follow my writing know that I rarely give guy’s dating advice.  I feel that it can be hard for a woman to effectively mentor a man on dating, because let’s face it: we have not walked in their shoes.  Nevertheless, a sincere Catholic man [...]

The Call and Cost of Being Jesus’ Disciple
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The Call and Cost of Being Jesus’ Disciple

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by on Feb 08, 2012 in Featured, Men
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As he was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen. He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” At once they left their nets and followed him. [...]

The Call to be One in Christ
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The Call to be One in Christ

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by on Jan 25, 2012 in Featured, Men
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The battle is not yours but God’s. (2 Chronicle 20:15) So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God was reconciling [...]

2012: A Year to Say Yes to God’s Plan for Our Lives
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2012: A Year to Say Yes to God’s Plan for Our Lives

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by on Jan 18, 2012 in Featured, Men, MyChurchParish.com
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Sing joyfully to the LORD, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him. (Psalm 33:1) For I know well the plans I have in mind for you, plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope. When you call me, and come and pray [...]

From Teacher to Farmer: Why I Went Back to the Land
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From Teacher to Farmer: Why I Went Back to the Land

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by on Jan 17, 2012 in Featured, Men, The Economy
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A little more than a year ago, I quit my job as a theology teacher at a Catholic high school to become a full-time organic farmer. I like to call myself a “Catholic farmer”, because I am striving to live out the Church’s teachings on marriage and the family, as well as Catholic social teaching, [...]

2012: A Year to Spend More Time in Prayer with Jesus
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2012: A Year to Spend More Time in Prayer with Jesus

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by on Jan 09, 2012 in Featured, Men
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The LORD came and stood there, calling out as before: Samuel, Samuel! Samuel answered, “Speak, for your servant is listening.” (1 Samuel 3:10) Jesus  said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was [...]

A New Year’s Moral Resolution for Fathers
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A New Year’s Moral Resolution for Fathers

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by on Jan 04, 2012 in Featured, Men, MyChurchParish.com, Parenting
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One of the most amazing things about fatherhood is my children’s capacity to analyze every little thing I do. Give them an inch and they will take it a mile with anything I either said or did. No one ever wants to be challenged or corrected for their wrongs. This is a basic fact of [...]

2012: A Year to Give Our Lives More Fully to the Lord
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2012: A Year to Give Our Lives More Fully to the Lord

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by on Jan 04, 2012 in Featured, Men
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For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. (John 3:16) I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. [...]

Advent: A Time to Fix Our Eyes on Jesus
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Advent: A Time to Fix Our Eyes on Jesus

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by on Dec 13, 2011 in Featured, Men
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Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith. For the sake of the joy that [...]

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