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Day 350 – The Fall of Babylon

Today’s reading for study: Revelation 18 Today’s reading is much more straightforward than many of the others in the book of Revelation. Having previously established that Babylon is code for Rome, we see the fall of the great pagan city vividly described.... (www.catholic365.com)

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There is Power in the Act of Contrition

The Act of Contrition is the prayer we, as Catholics, pray after we confess our sins during the Sacrament of Reconciliation. I like this common prayer... (www.catholic365.com)

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Habits--Dry Bones--Mindset--Barren Elizabeth

What do all these have in common in our spiritual walk with God? Let us start with 'Barren Elizabeth.'... (www.catholic365.com)

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Christ-Focus in Spiritual Growth

The practice of virtue is like riding bicycle: if you stop moving forward, you fall down. It is a fragile state that can be weakened or even shattered by a lapse into worldliness, materialism, resentment, lust, unforgiveness, selfishness, self-pity, or any of a thousand other forms of failure.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 349 – The Whore of Babylon

Today’s reading for study: Revelation 17 Today we see the “Whore of Babylon”. Oceans of ink have spilled on trying to define who she is and what or who she represents. Of course, the primary point of contention is that some Protestant denominations accuse the Catholic Church of being the whore.... (www.catholic365.com)

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It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. - He understands us perfectly.

We do not like to think of ourselves as dumb, submissive animals. We are sophisticated human beings. We have an intellect and a free will, we go where we will and do what we want. And we don’t like sheep dogs yapping and snapping at our feet.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Learning to Value Suffering and a Natural Death, the Hard Way

I remember a weekend in my life where I wished I was dead, would die, had already died. My mouth was newly wired shut from a broken jaw and the pain was unbearable. I couldn’t receive any more pain medicine because I had already been given the full, prescribed amount. This was two years ago in Febru... (www.catholic365.com)

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They Might Be Right

Alessandro gulped as he watched an agonized man pass with a cross hefted on his shoulder. He tugged at his slave collar and waited patiently for the procession to pass. Golgotha was close enough that he could see the crosses already erected and two men hanging in desperate misery.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Christ-Focus in Scripture

I once saw a fascinating copy of the United States Constitution engraved on a copper plate. Close-up, the letters of each word seemed uniform in size and depth. In reality, they were subtly shaded so that if the entire text were held at arm’s length, it displayed a strikingly vivid picture of George... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 348 – The Great City Destroyed

Today’s reading for study: Revelation 16 Today’s reading we see the seven last plagues unleashed. Specifically, the wrath of God falls on one city... (www.catholic365.com)

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The question isn't were you challenged. The question is were you changed?

Saul’s life was opened to Jesus in a dramatic way, but that does not have to happen with us. As Jesus says, “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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What is the purpose of your life?

This question only matters to a human being. An animal doesn’t have the intellectual capability to think about the meaning of its own life. It lives to eat, sleep and reproduce, nothing more. But a human being feels a longing about the meaning of his life, the reason for his existence.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Don't Miss these Symbolisms at Your Next Mass

As Catholics who have gone to countless Masses, we know the order of the different parts of the Mass, and the responses to the priest’s prompts come quite instinctively. But most Catholics might miss the symbolisms built in the liturgy because, well, we never knew they were there. Listed here are so... (www.catholic365.com)

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Christ-Focus in Prayer

An out-of-focus Christianity will likewise distort our prayer life. Without a close relationship with Jesus as a person, our prayer will be nothing more than a long-distance phone call to heaven.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 347 – Seven Last Plagues

Today’s reading for study: Revelation 15 In today’s reading, we see seven more plagues being prepared to be unleashed.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Jesus is truly present at Mass. Are you?

God has a different vocation in mind for each one of us, and we won’t be strong enough to do what God wants from us unless we become more like Him.... (www.catholic365.com)

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God's Inclusive Exclusivity

This week is labeled on the Church calendar as the “Fourth Sunday of Easter.” But we might as well call it “Politically Incorrect Sunday.” In the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, St. Peter makes a proclamation that has offended people for centuries—especially in recent generations when R... (www.catholic365.com)

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Why Men Need Women and Women Need Men (part IV)

As we've studied in the first three articles of this series ( I, II, III), God’s creation communicates that dissimilarities are profound because differences illustrate love in that one uses his opposing nature to serve the other to complete what the other is lacking while the other does the same in ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Christ-Focus in the Eucharist

Self-destructive patterns of failure can distort our spiritual vision in countless ways by subtly depersonalizing our relationship with Jesus. How can this out-of-focus Christianity distance us from Christ? There are many possibilities.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 346 – The Harvest of the Earth

Today’s reading shows forth imagery from which we can make important inferences. First, it this passage, we see that the torment of the damned in hell will be eternal... (www.catholic365.com)

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