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Authority: Scripture or Magisterium?

Have you had disagreements on faith? Have you ever been challenged with, “What does the Bible say?” My first thought is, “It says a lot of things.” The question opens several doors, and can lead down many paths of discussion. Instead of stating the comment in my mind out loud, I try to get clari... (www.catholic365.com)

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Stay With Me, Lord!

I’m not usually one to have a ton of little devotionals and prayer cards around, but I got one just the other day that is really “a keeper.” My parents had come up to Grand Forks to help us with our annual fall sale and luncheon this weekend. Their presence was much appreciated.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Hard to Find Jesus in Holiday Clutter

This week is the first Sunday of Advent. It seems like we just packed away the Christmas stuff and now we have to bring it all out again. (I realize this doesn’t apply to everyone. Some folks start celebrating the Christmas season right around Halloween.... (www.catholic365.com)

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How to recognize Jesus when He comes this Christmas?

For Catholics, Advent is a period of four Sundays in preparation for Christmas. For some people, it seems like a long wait, but for the Jewish people it took approximately seven hundred years of waiting to finally have the Messiah among them.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Annual End of the Year Inventory of Talents? Huh?

As we near the end of each liturgical year, we hear and read the parable of the talents. If a daily communicant at Mass, the parable is told several times. Both Matthew and Luke record the stories of the landowner who goes away for an unspecified amount of time.... (www.catholic365.com)

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many a Christian has met with a disaster, not physically but spiritually, by relying on his or her personal feelings--often sincere but erroneous--rather than on the established norms of God’s revealed truth, especially as they are articulated by Christ’s Church, “the pillar and bulwark of truth”(1 ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 207 – Live Like You Are Dying

There is a well-known country music song that exhorts us to “live like you are dying”. The meaning, of course, is to implore us to appreciate that which we have around us. The moments big and small with family and friends that are the joys of life.... (www.catholic365.com)

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5 Tips for Seeing a Shooting Star and Finding God in Dark Times

Have you ever seen a shooting star? Every year in December the Germid Meteor Shower streams through the winter Sky with a fantastic show.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Messy is Better

It’s painfully easy for me to live life adjacent to people, parallel lives that appear to intersect, but never truly do. I hide behind walls of entertainment and tact. It’s far more messy to live life with people rather than adjacent to them. Actually caring about people is scary and letting them in... (www.catholic365.com)

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Are you searching for direction? Are you unsure of the next step to take? Do you sense a change or transition but aren’t sure what it is? Welcome to holy ambiguity, a place where those who walk the spiritual journey wait. In this place, God is calling you to greater patience and faith.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Sorrowful Mysteries - The Agony in the Garden

Heavenly Father, as in Jesus' example, we all have to walk in our garden of Gethseamni. How great is the anguish of these moments, knowing what is eventually to be for a life we so love. It is not so much the end of the journey that is so excruciatingly painful, but the path to that end, which overf... (www.catholic365.com)

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Grinch in a Law Book

Imagine skipping the entire Christmas season for one year. Now imagine it for 22 years! Starting in 1659, that was show long the celebration of Christmas was against the law in Massachusetts.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 206 – The Obligations of the Law are Cancelled

In today’s reading, Paul comes back to a question that consistently arose during the early church. The issue was whether Gentile converts were first obligated under the Jewish law.... (www.catholic365.com)

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What Is the Nicene Creed?

At every Sunday Mass, right after the homily, the entire congregation stands and, reading from a missalette or pew card, recites in unison the words of the Nicene Creed, which begins, “I believe in one God…” The Creed is the declaration of faith for Christians. It is a summary of the doctrines taugh... (www.catholic365.com)

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Could it be that Jesus wants to reign above all in men's hearts, in your heart?

We start the Liturgical Year all again with the First Sunday of Advent. We recently celebrated the Solemn Feast of Christ the King.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Maranatha - Advent 2017

This year as Advent arrives, at a time of unrest and worldly distress, our hope is more than ever needed to inflame the minds of each soul. I remember a dream some time ago where the sounds and sight of bombs were going off in the not too far distance. “They are getting close” I said and upon waki... (www.catholic365.com)

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Oops! A Boo Boo in What Was Said

One day after celebrating the morning Mass, a couple approached me and asked me to pray over them because it was their wedding anniversary. The wife requested me to pray especially for her because they were already married for 5 years, and despite many attempts, they had not been able to conceive. I... (www.catholic365.com)

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Think for a moment of one of your loved ones who has passed away, and recall the grief you experienced at the funeral. Give yourself a numerical score for your grief at that time, on a scale from one to one hundred. Now think about the death of a victim of terrorism that you read about recently, and... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 205 – What is lacking in Christ's suffering?

Today we start the book of Colossians. Written sometime from A.D. 60 to 62, it was written to a Church that Paul had no prior relationship with and probably didn’t know.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Personal Prayers

Our Father, who are in Heaven...and on this earth, right beside us, right now.. Hallowed by Thy name...from which everything came to be in birth to death, simply by Your Word...... (www.catholic365.com)

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