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Let us pray....

This is how Mrs. Melania Trump started her prayer on February 18, 2017, in Melbourne, Florida. No one noticed. On January 22, 2015, Ms. Melania Knauss was married to Mr. Donald Trump. As she walked up the aisle, a soprano sang, Ave Maria. And she wore on her person, her grandmother's rosary.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Christian Violence vs. Secular Violence

Last week I discussed the passionate debates in which I engaged many years ago. The forum was the “letters to the editor” page of a now defunct local newspaper. And one of my primary debate opponents was Mr. A., a devout atheist. (I don’t call him “Mr. A” because he was an atheist; his last name act... (www.catholic365.com)

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A church that does not proclaim a word of God that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?

We may often, in our despair and desolation, ask God “why”? Why do bad things happen to me, to those close to me, to those we love? It is difficult in the depths of our pain to believe that we will ever recover, let alone believe that God has a plan of joy and salvation for us. An attitude of hope ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Are You Ready; Chapter V "A Stark Reality"

Morning arrived with the sun shining more brilliantly than usual, but not a real concern since our task at hand was to drive towards an unknown, yet heart-seeking safety and peaceful surroundings that would bring back the Church and the Sacraments we so longed to share in, again.... (www.catholic365.com)

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How Much Is a Human Worth?

At mid-century prices, an iron ingot sold for $5. Made into horseshoes, its value was $10.50. Manufactured into needles, its value jumped to $5,000. Crafted into high-grade balance springs for watches, it’s worth a quarter of a million dollars!... (www.catholic365.com)

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Screwtape, Distraction and a Weekend with the Boys...

It is commonly suggested within Christian circles that the Devil will not attack humanity with horns, a pitchfork and flames burning within and around him (outside of Tim Curry in the Hollywood flop, Legend). Instead, he attacks in the temptations we are prone to covet and in the subtleties and dis... (www.catholic365.com)

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Pentecost is celebrated 50 days after the Passover. It is originally a Jewish Holy Day celebrating the first-fruits of the harvest and the revelation of the Law on the Mountain. There is a spiritual connection between those two which is revealed in the Christian celebration.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Leadership Series

For many of us, we want to be God’s people, but to serve in our own terms. And so it behoves on the Church, in its service as the light to the society, to see how it can use the same leadership resources in man to stem the tide of decadence in morals that has bedeviled even the Christians who should... (www.catholic365.com)

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Get Hope & get joy, get joy & get strength.

We are so busy doing things, achieving, making progress that we can forget what life is all about, preparing to meet God in heaven. The Ascension of Jesus reminds us that during our lives we are “only passing through” on this earth, as we say.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Oh, the good I could have done! The sin of omission.

Many times, we waste our time on meaningless activities when we could have been doing something better. This is not to demean recreational activities as they can re-create/refresh ourselves. We can take them too far, however. Then, they become meaningless, like other activities we sometimes hide ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Love and Salt - Book Review

There is something raw and beautiful about reading letters that takes the soul back in time. Reading a collection of letters feels like you are peeking into someone else’s life; personal life of confessions, doubts, fear, and even love. The art of letter writing is much lost in today’s world but not... (www.catholic365.com)

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Jesus, Religion and My Friends...

An old and dear friend recently posted a video on Facebook of a rap poem that went viral five years ago, about hating religion but loving Jesus. Among its many claims, the poet suggests that Christ came to abolish the institutionalized practice of devotion to God because of corruption.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Have You Written Your Obituary?

Instead of paying a fine for your next traffic violation, how would you like to write your own obituary? Or would you prefer to interview an undertaker, or perhaps view the bodies of traffic victims in the local morgue? An alternative might be to spend a few hours in a hospital emergency room, viewi... (www.catholic365.com)

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Sifting to the truth of the First Lady and veiling

There has been a lot of hype, both on social media and in mainstream media, about the First Lady of the United States Melania Trump not wearing a veil during her visit in Saudia Arabia with officials but the next day she veiled in the presence of Pope Francis at the Vatican.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Medjugorje, Two Popes, and Me

Medjugorje: The alleged site of a series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to six young visionaries beginning in 1981 ignited a storm of controversy and persecution. Thirty-six years later, questions remain unanswered to the satisfaction of skeptical Catholic and secular minds.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Justice Sister of Prudence, Fortitude and Temperance

Since most of us are disobedient to God [proven by the fact that we have sins to confess] — are we relegated to the practice of imperfect, man-made justice on earth?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Wait and See---Good Things Will Come to You---Wait and See

In all the stories told in the Bible, I do not recount one where there were instant arrivals at the Promised Lands. You know, the places where the people of faith went from point A to point B in just a matter of days. One exception maybe—the Resurrection of Christ, but even that event was preceded b... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Chicago Public Library recently declared an “amnesty Day: for borrowers of overdue books. With no fines and no questions asked, over then thousand books were returned, some overdue since 1934!... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 33 – The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

The parable of the unforgiving servant is fairly straight forward but I’d like to highlight two things. First, it says that the debt owed the king was “a large sum of money”. Some translations translate it more literally as “ten thousand talents”. A single talent was a significant sum of money.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Magic of the Sacraments

One of the common criticisms leveled at Catholics by other Christians is related to the Sacraments—how can grace actually depend upon matter? They accuse the Catholics of superstition and magic.... (www.catholic365.com)

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