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Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

In today’s gospel Jesus cures a person with leprosy. We might think, “Well, that has nothing to do with me. I don’t have leprosy.” Think for a moment… What is eating away at our society? What are the cures?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Find True Relief & Healing from Pain in God

My heart is heavy from all of the tragic drug use. People are in so much pain and need of relief that they are turning to addictive drugs that unfortunately lead to even more suffering and death. Where can they find true relief and healing from pain? Only in God.... (www.catholic365.com)

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God's Test of Silence

Is it by coincidence or design that the word "silent" is an anagram of the word "listen" - that is, they both have the same letters? Good listening begins with silence on the part of the listener, but in God's paradoxical ways, one can also be made a good listener by silence on the part of the "spea... (www.catholic365.com)

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Artist Jonathan Byrne and The Face of Christ

Jonathan Byrne is a professional mid-career artist who lives in the coastal town of Blackrock in Dublin, Ireland. After many years of making images and exhibiting at home and abroad, he returned to a subject that has always enthralled him, the Face of Christ.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 62 - Ananias and Sapphira and the Shadow of Peter

Today’s story of the punishment of Ananias and Sapphira is a tough read. The two sell their property to donate the proceeds to the Church but hold some back for themselves. The first impression with which the leaves you is that if you don’t give everything you own to the Church you will die.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Prayer Is a Blessed Mystery

Over the years, when people asked me to pray for them, I usually would, but within a few days I’d forget about it until the next time I saw that particular person. And then I’d feel guilty about forgetting, so last year I finally decided to start a prayer notebook.... (www.catholic365.com)

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If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.

Today we celebrate two great men of the Church, Saints Peter and Paul. Two ordinary men, one a fisherman and the other a Pharisee and a tentmaker. Two ordinary men who recognized that God had called them to be something greater than they thought themselves to be.... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Opioids" A Time of Grief in a World of Uncertainty

Turn the TV on, pick-up a newspaper, listen to commentators who daily are reporting the same unnerving pronouncements of an evil that has taken over mothers addicted to these drugs, and worst their new-born babies, also now inheriting the same addictive needs.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Only Thing God Doesn't Know

Among ancient warring Anglo-Saxons, the guarding of the community's bread supply from enemy pilfering was critical to survival. That "hlaf-weard" or "load ward" was a trusted "loaf-keeper". The term was contracted to "hlaford," and in Middle English, evolved into "laferd," "loverd," and finally int... (www.catholic365.com)

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Why Would Anyone In This Modern Age Even Think About Religious Life?: My Story So Far

I’ve heard this question many times, and after having discerned for several years, I’ve read many, many vocation stories. In fact, everyone has a story to tell. God writes each of us into life in His own unique way, and we’re made to live with a special purpose only we can fulfill.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 61 – The Apostles and Converts form a New Community

After Peter and John are released by the Sanhedrin they go back to their new community and pray in thanksgiving. In the prayer they recognize that verses from Psalm 2 were actually prophetic, describing how the Jewish leaders would conspire with the gentiles against the messiah. Notice, this sugge... (www.catholic365.com)

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Talking Holy Spirit with a Pentecostal

I have had many mutual faith sharing moments with Uber drivers and the last one I didn't even know how it began, but I found myself saying I wish I had known sooner the reality so basic as the Second Coming. I mean, this is so fundamental in Christianity, I couldn't comprehend why it took 38 years o... (www.catholic365.com)

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Being a Slave to Sin Is Hard Work

At Mass this weekend, the second reading is from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans. He explains how the Spirit of God can transform us. “You are not in the flesh,” he writes, “on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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Living in the almost

As a single Catholic, it can be an easy temptation to fall into dangerous binary thinking. Either you do everything right, and get rewarded with a loving spouse and family, or God withholds these things from you as some sort of punishment. On my worst days, I suspect God of keeping these things from... (www.catholic365.com)

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Gradual Relapse, Sudden Collapse

One of the most fascinating and dramatic of televised news events is the instant collapse of the dyamited skyscraper. One moment the edifice stands in all its grandiose splendor, and the next moment it is a heap of rubble hidden in billowing dust. The stark suddenness of the change excites our fasci... (www.catholic365.com)

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A Proper Disposition in Prayer

Prayer is communal and personal. In communal prayer, we come together with others to listen and respond to God in the stylized rubrics of the liturgy.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 60 – Peter before the Sanhedrin

Today we see Peter brought before the Sanhedrin. What a difference a few weeks makes! A short time ago Jesus stood silent in front of this council at a show trial and was railroaded off to crucifixion. Now Peter is before them. Filled with the Holy Spirit he speaks plainly yet forcefully.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Bookends to Matthew's Gospel

When reading the Gospel of Matthew there are two sections that have intrigued me and they are the “Beatitudes and The Judgement of the Nations.” I like to call them bookends since the very essence contained within them are similar to a beginning and end of a novel.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

We live in a world of contradictions. Lots of people today say one thing but mean another. It is easy to be victims of so-called religious leaders who show compassion but have hidden agenda; they know and say the right words, like a performance they do.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Sex is worth more

As a college student, I gradually became used to hearing that most people think of sex as something you do on a third date. I’ve even seen condoms given out as if they were candy by some student associations.... (www.catholic365.com)

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