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Free to Love: Marriage Vows
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Free to Love: Marriage Vows

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by on Mar 21, 2015 in Catechesis, Evangelization, Featured, Live in Christ, Marriage
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Our marriage vows reflect the fidelity of God’s love for us. The obligations of the marriage covenant – fidelity, love open to new life, and lifelong sexual exclusivity – ask a lot of another as it assumes a lot about ourselves. Too often we make promises we don’t keep, overextend our commitments, or intend fidelity […]

Reflections for Sunday, September 18, 2011
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Reflections for Sunday, September 18, 2011

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by on Sep 12, 2011 in Featured, Sunday Reflections
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Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion        (Isaiah 55:6-9; Psalm 145: 2-3,8-9,17-18; Philippians 1:20-24,27; Matthew 20:1-16)  The Importance of Knowing and Experiencing the Grace of God “The last will be first, and the first will be last.” (Matthew 20:16) These words can have a number of different meanings. For instance, we look at […]

We Have Sufficient Grace for the Pro-life Fight
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We Have Sufficient Grace for the Pro-life Fight

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by on Jul 18, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Even those to whom the truth of the Resurrection has been revealed and claim to believe in that truth still struggle in a world broken and corrupted, where might makes right, and where sometimes the immensity of evil tempts us to doubt the divine presence. We live in a world where we see through the […]

The Man Born Blind
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The Man Born Blind

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by on Apr 04, 2011 in Columnists
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The Lion of Judah is no tame lion.  Neither is he predictable. While walking along the streets of Jerusalem one day, Jesus sees a common enough sight in the Holy City.  There is a disabled person by the side of the road begging (John 9).  What else is the poor man to do?  He has […]