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  • Thomas: Doubter, Empiricist, Apostle, Saint
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    Thomas: Doubter, Empiricist, Apostle, Saint

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    For St. John the Apostle, the empty tomb was all he needed to experience to believe in the Resurrection. But two who were later to be saints – Mary Magdalene and Thomas – began the first Easter season as nonbelievers. Mary Magdalene arrived at the tomb not to assure herself that Christ is risen, but […]

  • The Pick-Up
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    The Pick-Up

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    This past Sunday morning on our way to the airport, I was dropping off my husband, a pilot for work. We had just finished saying the Rosary and were rounding the large loop about a mile from the airport, when we noticed a car off to the side of the road. The hood was up […]

  • The Acts of the Holy Spirit Through Peter and Paul, Apostles
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    The Acts of the Holy Spirit Through Peter and Paul, Apostles

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    On this the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul I will speak on the varieties of Revelation that each Apostle received from Jesus Christ, and what said Revelation means to us and to our Church today. There really is only one great Revelation—the Word made Flesh—but each of us receives it differently, in the amount […]

  • The Nativity of St. John the Baptist: Trust in God’s Loving Power
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    The Nativity of St. John the Baptist: Trust in God’s Loving Power

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    “You did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time”  (Luke 1:20). Faith assures us that anything is possible with God, and The Catechism teaches us that, “God, who created everything also rules everything and can do everything. God’s power is loving, for He is our Father, and mysterious, for only faith […]

  • Falling in Trust
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    Falling in Trust

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    Trust is an intrinsic part of the human psyche, though it’s resolve can sometimes seem almost irrational. It was trust in God that brought Columbus to discover the New World. The same could be said about the many pioneers who ventured out in wagons to cross the great prairies in the 19th century. In that […]

  • Slow Down This Summer
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    Slow Down This Summer

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    The children of their own accord made a little shrine in our trees the other day. (They affectionately call these trees, The Wildness.) They gathered lilacs and other flowers in bloom, made blue sashes with star badges, and used sticks for swords.  They also made a little flag. It was all in honor of Mary, […]

  • Heartbreak, Suicide and God's Endless Mercy
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    Heartbreak, Suicide and God’s Endless Mercy

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    Frequently, when I speak to groups about death and dying, people will share their own stories of loss. At a recent event, a woman came up to me with tears running down her face, to talk about her daughter who had died by suicide. She had been raised as a Catholic, with the idea that […]

  • Enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Remedy Against the Culture of Death
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    Enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Remedy Against the Culture of Death

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    Even as we see our government and our leaders try to solve our problems, it’s clear that we cannot rely on them to solve our spiritual problems. Instead, when we as a civilization open ourselves up to God’s love, he will pour a new anointing of His Spirit upon us.  Our plan must be to […]

  • How to Survive Insomnia
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    How to Survive Insomnia

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    I was asked the other day if I suffer from insomnia? Uh, yes. From time-to-time anyway, and it’s terrible.  I never used to have a problem sleeping. Anybody remember those college days of setting the alarm clock for 10am? And sleeping all the way through the night, until 10am? Yeah, that’s a little pathetic, but […]