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Preparing for Lent

Lent is a solemn Liturgical Season designed by the Church to draw us closer to the Lord. As we enter Lent, let’s reflect on Matthew 27:46: “My God, My God why have you abandoned me?” [Matthew 27:46] A few verses later, Matthew writes that Jesus “cries out again with a loud voice and then yielded up ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Giving Up Facebook for Lent

The most known vices that Catholics give up are sweets, caffeine, and beer. Although these can bring you to your knees in prayer (I thought I was going to die one year abstaining from caffeine), the greatest vice of this day and age is social media, particularly for me, Facebook.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Everyday brings opportunities to love

Everyday, there are many opportunities where we can love. Everyday, brings some sort of opportunities to love our neighbour. During the day, are we recognizing what these opportunities are? Are we recognizing the times when we did not love our neighbour, when the opportunity was there?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Is it a coincidence that this Gospel passage immediately follows Jesus’ teaching about the sacred integrity of Marriage? The Church has taught for some two thousand years that the begetting and rearing of children is integral to the nature of marriage: the willed exclusion of this goal dissolves the... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Temptation To Compare: A Lie From The Beginning

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like comparison is a huge temptation these days. I know it is for me. By comparison, I’m talking about the tendency to look at someone else’s life or gifts and feel sad, upset, or even to fall into despair that you do not have the same kinds of gifts or talents that ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Are you Fallen Away

I will never understand people who proclaim to be Catholic, yet leave the aisles and pews of our Church’s for the glitter and stages of the local area mega churches, and I use the term church loosely in this perspective.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Amoris Laetitia: Circumventing Church Teaching on the Indissolubility of Marriage

Anyone who pays even a little bit of attention to Catholic news, is well aware of the controversy that continues to grow out of the promulgation of Pope Francis’ Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. For those who have been living under a rock (or do not pay attention to Catholic news... (www.catholic365.com)

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Things Happen for a Reason

A couple weeks ago, I went to the church my son and his family attend and I’m always pleased when the visiting Monsignor gives his homilies. Over the years I’ve come to enjoy and learn a lot from them.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Looking out into the world with my brokenness within. Invisible sins that I don't have to hide as I go inside to pray, checking my demons at the door to await my return. The plank in my own eye now looks old, just sitting there for so many years.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Living together as a couple is "an art, a patient, beautiful and fascinating journey . . . which can be summarized in three words: please, thank you and sorry."

When I hear people say things about the Church’s teaching on the family and marriage such, “The Church must modernize itself”, “The Church must bring itself up to date”, “The Church must keep up with society” I cannot but remember that at Jesus’ time the Jews were also discussing “modernizing” famil... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Face of Mercy to Those in Misery

At a recent retreat my wife and I were conducting, I placed a large box before the group and told participants that we had been storing up all kinds of graces and merits from the Jubilee Year of Mercy and saving them in the box for them. They could store the box anywhere.... (www.catholic365.com)

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What is Your Role in Salvation History?

I’ve been on a heightened journey of Faith over the past few years. I’ve experienced an epiphany which has lead me to dive in and explore my Catholic faith with a new zeal and fervor that I really have never experienced and been inspired to do before.... (www.catholic365.com)

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I am the crowd that cried ‘Crucify Him’. I am the crowd that demanded the release of a prisoner – a thief and robber – instead of the one who healed me...who fed me....who loved me and died for me.... (www.catholic365.com)

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What Is It You Truly Hunger For?

Hunger. It makes our way into our lives every day.... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Love one another as I have loved you" - IMPOSSIBLE

When Christ hung dying on the Cross, despite His earlier betrayal, arrest, humiliation, beatings and torture; despite suffering the most painful of death and being taunted and tormented by His enemies, He still had love in His heart and asked for forgiveness on behalf of these people.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

This first reading contains a list of common excuses that people use to justify their sinful behaviors or to put off change. Lest we assume that since we've already experienced conversion we're above all this, let's reflect on the ways that our old thought patterns might still be entrapping us.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Beauty of Bobo Doll Disciples

I’m not a pious person. I don’t know if that’s good or bad; it just is. I’m just a regular guy and I’m okay with that. Even so, I still listen when the spirit gives me a nudge.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The eternal now

Have you ever considered the possibility that we are living in eternity? I don't mean that we will live forever on Earth, no matter how good medical advancements are. One time, in bible study, we talked about living our eternity NOW.... (www.catholic365.com)

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A Matter of Life and Death

I teach high school Theology at a Catholic school. Chapter 2 in the 10th grade Morality textbook is about decision making. What is the process we use to make good decisions? Before we began the chapter I polled students regarding their opinion about the death penalty. Then I sent them into the c... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Messiah comes in the "Fullness of Time": Five Ages

The Messiah comes in the "Fullness of Time": Five Ages. I argue the Messiah would come after five particular major ages in ANY world, not just ours.... (www.catholic365.com)

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