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Are you listening? Can you hear Jesus calling? If not, you might want to take a minute or ten to quiet yourself and listen for His gentle voice. That's exactly what I got to do tonight. We had a healing Mass - an opportunity to bring our pain, sufferings, challenges, fears, and give it all to God.... (www.catholic365.com)

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12 Baskets of Brokenness

Anyone that is a Christian is familiar with the story of the five loaves and two fish that fed five thousand.... (www.catholic365.com)

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No Crowds--No Applause Here

Everyday---each person goes through the motions of living life—loving, caring, serving, helping—well just one act at a time: we are the hands and heart of Jesus. Sometimes however, we may feel I am not doing enough or I am not making a difference.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Catholic Writing and the Grotesque

After reading a recent short story I wrote, my wife turned from her bar stool at our kitchen counter and shot me a disconcerting look; she paused, looked back at the computer, then back at me, and asked “why would you write something like that?” She is not the first person to approach me, either in ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Break This- For Me

Each Sunday we watch as he is broken apart. The priest raises his hands high so we can't miss the tearing apart of the host. But only when I read Pope Francis' homily for the Solemnity we celebrate today, Corpus Christi, did I realize the priest is recreating the breaking of the body of Christ on th... (www.catholic365.com)

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A Handbook for Victims of a Curse

One of the most disconcerting types of suffering is that which results from being targeted by another person with an evil curse, (similar to a hex, which is a witchcraft-induced evil spell). A curse or hex may take any of countless manifestations, physical or emotional suffering, financial stress, e... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Poverty of Networking: Do Less, Be More

When meeting people at social gatherings, I usually get a kick out of the classic exchange that begins with the question “So what do you do?” Not that I have not used the same from time to time, but when someone asks me the question, I interiorly respond, “If you want to know who I am, why ask what... (www.catholic365.com)

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First, you pray!

I think it's really crazy how God gives. God is very generous, so when you ask for something you need to be prepared for something generous! Every day I pray to use the gifts that He has given me to help others, to help my brothers and sisters, to build the body of His Church, to keep His body mov... (www.catholic365.com)

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God's Way Of Freeing A Catholic Man From All His Sexual Addictions Forever

Since having received the sacrament of Confirmation in my late 20s, all the way through to my early 40s, I was a fallen away Catholic man who got seduced by all the glamour of this world’s sexual temptations and sins. I turned my back on God and thought that I was fully capable of creating my own dr... (www.catholic365.com)

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Love, Death and a Mother's Pain...

In The Passion of the Christ, there is a beautiful and heart-wrenching scene where, after witnessing the brutal scourging and unjust trial of her son, Mary sees Jesus falling as He carries the Cross. The images flash back to what appears to be a distant memory of a time when Jesus fell as a child a... (www.catholic365.com)

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Confession is an encounter with Jesus whose "mercy motivates us to do better"

Jesus, in this gospel, asks St. Peter: Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Jesus sees to it that Peter’s answer is in the affirmative. These triple questions are in reference to Peter’s triple denial of Jesus before the passion, as if Christ was giving Peter a chance to make up for his earlier offe... (www.catholic365.com)

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Why do we depend upon Mary's Immaculate Conception?

Surely, there are many reasons why Mary was immaculately conceived, some of which we may never truly know or understand until we obtain heavenly perfection, but Mary's immaculate conception is a necessary piece of our own redemption.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Christianity and The Gang Epidemic

In 2013, I was jumped into the Gangster Disciple Nation by my older brother in Alabama. I remember vividly the hard punches to my chest that left bruising and busted blood vessels along the center of my body. After my initiation, I quickly found myself longing to earn the respect of my affiliates.... (www.catholic365.com)

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…Greatest Possible Reverence and Honor…

As we celebrate the wonderful feast of Corpus Christi, I couldn’t resist reflecting upon this awesome gift of Jesus’ Eucharistic presence! There is so much to say: where can I begin, or end?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Turning People Away While Trying to Get Them Involved

One day after Mass, I was approached by a woman recruiting parishioners for an upcoming retreat program. When I started to ask her some questions, her response was, “I need to get to work.” This response made me sad. I was happy she was trying to be a dynamic Catholic through her involvement with th... (www.catholic365.com)

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Peter Pan: Why the World Needs Him to Grow Up

Children are usually divided up into two categories; the stuffy ones who want nothing more to do with childhood and anxiously await the responsibility of adulthood, and the cheerful youthful ones with the wild imaginations and boundless energy.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The New Child Sacrifice?

Recently, I have taken the lead with my county’s Right to Life affiliate in Northern Michigan. As I pondered the prolife movement in general, and abortion in particular, I am left with a horrifying thought. Is abortion the latest version of child sacrifice?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Set the World ABLAZE! (Luke 12:49)

One may have reason to doubt the real power of Jesus Christ alive and present. 90% disappear after Confirmation. 75% of Catholics no longer attend Mass. Only 13% of Mass-going Catholics even pray before meals. Or, perhaps like the origin of just about every superhero, the power is there, we have it,... (www.catholic365.com)

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After I had left life as a public official and followed my calling to the Diaconate, I found that my circle of friends underwent a major transition. I found that a lot of the people that were constantly in my life when I was in public office were no longer anywhere to be found.... (www.catholic365.com)

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A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.

We have our factions and our arguments about sometimes important but, often enough, not essential issues. We condemn those who don’t agree with us and sometimes treat them with disrespect and even contempt. We wrap ourselves in our convictions and are confident that those who don’t share our every... (www.catholic365.com)

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