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Feast of the Holy Cross
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Feast of the Holy Cross

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by on Sep 14, 2016 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith
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Terrorism is nothing new.  It’s probably as old as the human race. In fact the cradle of civilization, now Iraq, was the home of the most infamous terrorists of antiquity, the Assyrians.  Their goal was to conquer their neighbors in a way that would minimize  initial resistance and subsequent rebellion.  To do this, they knew […]

Waterboy, Where are You Hiding?
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Waterboy, Where are You Hiding?

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by on Apr 03, 2015 in Columnists, Featured, History, Live in Christ
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John Mark was only a boy when he met Jesus. His mother Mary, a prominent member of the seventy disciples who followed Jesus throughout his three-year ministry, opened her home to the Lord and his Apostles. In the upper room of Mary’s house they held the Last Supper. Six weeks later the Apostles and Mary […]

The Cross is for Wretches Like Me
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The Cross is for Wretches Like Me

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by on Apr 03, 2015 in Featured, Live in Christ, MyChurchParish.com
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In his remarkably profound book, Lift Up You Heart, Bishop Fulton Sheen said, “The Cross is the most inescapable reality of life. If we will not accept it outside of ourselves, to pardon us and to heal, then we will have it inside, as frustration and despair.” The life changing reality of Calvary has been […]

Talk is Cheap
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Talk is Cheap

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by on Sep 27, 2014 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Sunday Reflections
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There will never be a shortage of words.  Words are plentiful because talk is cheap.  It’s easy to make a promise.  Keeping a promise is an entirely different matter, as this Sunday’s gospel makes abundantly clear. There are over a billion people on the planet who have solemnly promised to live a life of loving […]

The Cross of Christ the Measure of the World
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The Measure of the World

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by on Sep 14, 2014 in Columnists, Featured
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Humility and the Holy Cross
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Humility and the Holy Cross

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by on Sep 14, 2014 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith
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In June I had my right hip replaced.  Twenty years of running eroded the cartilage in the joint and when the pain became intolerable I elected to go under the knife.  Parish elders said, “You’re too young to have hip surgery.” (I’m 43.)  In the words of Indiana Jones: “It’s not the years, it’s the […]