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Reflections for Sunday, July 12, 2015
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Reflections for Sunday, July 12, 2015

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by on Jul 08, 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: Amos 7:12-15 2nd Reading: Ephesians 1:3-14 Responsorial: Psalm 85:9-14 Gospel: Mark 6:7-13 Coming to Know and Understand God’s Eternal Plan … A plan for the fullness of times. (Ephesians 1:10) Today, Paul takes us behind the scenes into the mind of God. Unlike […]

True Strength: Fully Rely on God
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True Strength: Fully Rely on God

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by on Jul 08, 2015 in Evangelization, Featured, Health & Fitness, Live in Christ
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Like many first-born children, I’m a good rules-follower. Unless I suspect danger to my physical or spiritual well-being, I will do what I’m told by people who love me or the people who somehow make or enforce the rules. So I always have been a pretty good “kneeler” in church. By that, I mean that […]

St. Elizabeth of Portugal
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St. Elizabeth of Portugal

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by on Jul 08, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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ELIZABETH [or Isabel] was born in 1271. She was daughter of Pedro III. of Arragon, being named after her aunt, St. Elizabeth of Hungary. At twelve years of age she was given in marriage to Denis, King of Portugal, and from a holy child became a saintly wife. She heard Mass and recited the Divine […]

Cross Bearers Needed
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Cross Bearers Needed

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by on Jul 07, 2015 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Evangelization, Featured
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In March of this year my father sent out an email to his family marking an important date in his life. It was the anniversary of the day, at thirty years old, he woke up paralyzed. Forty-eight years had passed. I was only eight years old, and the oldest of five children. I cannot remember […]

Book Review: <i>The Catholic Guide to Dating After Divorce</i>
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Book Review: The Catholic Guide to Dating After Divorce

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by on Jul 07, 2015 in Dating & Singles, Featured, On Books
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Lisa Duffy, an author and speaker for the CatholicMatch institute, overcame a painful divorce and annulment, remarried in the Church, and has spent the past twenty years ministering to those who have been wounded by divorce. In The Catholic Guide to Dating after Divorce (Ave Maria Press, 2015), Duffy provides authentic Church teaching on divorce, […]

Ferial Day
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Ferial Day

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by on Jul 07, 2015 in Saint of the Day
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St. Pantænus, Father of the Church
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St. Pantænus, Father of the Church

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by on Jul 07, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form, Uncategorized
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THIS learned father and apostolic man flourished in the second century. He was by birth a Sicilian, by profession a Stoic philosopher. His esteem for virtue led him into an acquaintance with the Christians, and being charmed with the innocence and sanctity of their conversation, he opened his eyes to the truth. He studied the […]

A Godly Meditation
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A Godly Meditation

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by on Jul 06, 2015 in Columnists, Featured, History
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Give me Thy grace, good Lord….

America is Post-Abortive
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America is Post-Abortive

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by on Jul 06, 2015 in Catholic Bioethics, Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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If you’re an American, you’re post-abortive. It is estimated that, since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 by which  seven Justices created the “right to abortion” in America, over 58,000,000 babies have been killed here. “Post-abortive” persons include the mothers of babies killed, fathers, and close family members. Consider:   Mothers Due to girls […]

Saint Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr
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Saint Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr

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by on Jul 06, 2015 in Saint of the Day, Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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Maria Goretti (October 16, 1890 – July 6, 1902) is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, and is one of its youngest canonized saints. She died from multiple stab wounds inflicted by her attempted rapist after she refused him because of love of Jesus and her loyalty to the Ten Commandments. Early life […]

St. Peter of Luxemburg
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St. Peter of Luxemburg

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by on Jul 05, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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PETER OF LUXEMBURG, descended both by his father and mother from the noblest families in Europe, was born in Lorraine, in the year 1369. When but a schoolboy, twelve years of age, he went to London as a hostage for his brother, the Count of St. Pol, who had been taken prisoner. The English were […]

Historic Prayer for the United States
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Historic Prayer for the United States

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by on Jul 04, 2015 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, History, Law & Justice, The Social Order
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For the welfare of the Republic.

Independence Hall, Philadelphia
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John Adams and American Independence

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by on Jul 04, 2015 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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Adams’s approach to political leadership is refreshing.

St Bertha, Widow, Abbess.
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St Bertha, Widow, Abbess.

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by on Jul 04, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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BERTHA was the daughter of Count Rigobert and Umana, related to one of the kings of Kent in England. In the twentieth year of her age she was married to Sigefroi, by whom she had five daughters, two of whom, Gertrude and Deotila, are Saints. After her husband’s death she put on the veil in […]

SCOTUS
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SCOTUS

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by on Jul 04, 2015 in Government & Politics, History, Law & Justice, Poetry
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With bluster, ink, and bray. Lawyers five, get their way. Out with God; in with sex drive. Salute Sodom; so they connive. Let them preach right prim of legality, That man’s law must be obeyed. But ‘tis base to bow, when reality Has the highest law betrayed. T’would be wrong to supersede, Against authority properly […]

Miracles Jesus Could Not Do
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Miracles Jesus Could Not Do

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by on Jul 04, 2015 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, MyChurchParish.com
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Over the last two Sundays, the gospel of Mark has been making it abundantly clear that Jesus is indeed God Almighty, ruler of the world and lord over life and death. But this week we come to a story that leaves us scratching our heads.  Jesus goes to his own native place, and receives less […]

St. Heliodorus, Bishop
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St. Heliodorus, Bishop

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by on Jul 03, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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THIS Saint was born at Dalmatia, St. Jerome’s native country, and soon sought out that great Doctor, in order not only to follow his advice in matters relating to Christian perfection, but also to profit by his deep learning. The life of a recluse possessed peculiar attractions for him, but to enter a monastery it […]

The Coming Battle
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The Coming Battle

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by on Jul 02, 2015 in Featured, Live in Christ, Marriage, The Homosexual Agenda
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If you are like me, you are in mourning. Not merely for a battle lost, but for the thousands of misguided souls who may be lost due to the Supreme Court’s misguided attempts at fairness. The legalization of same sex marriage is not a sudden event, however. Judging by the reactions on both sides, it […]

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin
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The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin

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by on Jul 02, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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THE angel Gabriel, in the mystery of the Annunciation, informed the Mother of God that her cousin Elizabeth had miraculously conceived, and was then pregnant with a son who was to be the precursor of the Messias. The Blessed Virgin out of humility concealed the wonderful dignity to which she was raised by the incarnation […]

Reflections for Sunday, July 5, 2015
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Reflections for Sunday, July 5, 2015

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by on Jul 02, 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 Ezekiel 2:2-5 2nd Reading: 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 Responsorial: Psalm 123:1-4 Gospel: Mark 6:1-6 Trusting in God’s Desire to Speak His Word and Message to Us Rebellious, stiff-necked, obstinate. Why would God go to the trouble of sending Ezekiel to speak his message to […]

Ferial Day
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Ferial Day

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by on Jul 02, 2015 in Saint of the Day
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Reluctantly Seeking Humility
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Reluctantly Seeking Humility

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by on Jul 01, 2015 in Evangelization, Featured, Live in Christ
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During the last several months, I have felt a distinct and powerful calling to obtain and embrace a certain virtue. It has led me to daily reciting a certain prayer to the point of writing it on my heart. I have found it one of the most difficult prayer devotions I ever have attempted. The […]

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Faith in Action

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by on Jul 01, 2015 in Featured, Live in Christ, The Social Order
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“I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing […]