resurrected body, prophecy

We Are Easter People

Even though fear and worry continue to grip the world, Jesus offers all of us the gift of joy today and every day. As St.

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summer fun with kids, children, leisure

Holiness is Child’s Play

The most famous ambassador of a childlike spirituality is St. Thérèse of Lisieux, a Carmelite nun who lived in the late 1800s. St. Thérèse defined

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Yom Kippur, scape goat

Redemptive Suffering?

When we act like a victim sacrifice, suffering for our own failings or like a scapegoat who suffers as the result of others sins, we

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Creatio ex Nihilo, invisible

I’m Still Egocentric? But . . .

Most Christians behave, think, and speak as if they are standing right in the middle of the universe with everything and everybody swirling around them.

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Confession

A Godly Life is a Joyful Life

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian (G.K. Chesterton). The first time my husband and I

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liberalism, violence, threats

Stand Inside the Fire

Part One of the Catechism explains each phrase of the Creed we recite at mass. Every week we announce, “I believe in the Holy Spirit”,

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religion, rescue

Boast About Being Weak

Most of us rate our success in living out our Christianity by a worldly set of standards. Even those who select candidates for the priesthood look

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