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"The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation."

There may be advantages to living downstream in history, as there are more data points to connect that can confirm progress as the promises of God are revealed.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Our Longings: A Gateway to Light this Christmas

We are in the season of Light. Christ, our Savior and the Light of the World, is born. And yet, for most of us, we are still living in the darkness of our sins and empty longings. Our manger is still empty, waiting for Christ to fill it.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Terror In The Night

Just as the shepherds were terrified from the anomalies that they saw in the Christmas night sky, so was my daughter one of our most memorable fishing trips.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The extra Christmas table place setting

Have you ever considered making an extra place setting at the Christmas dinner table? What about placing hay underneath the white table cloth? I have to admit a simple idea I had turned into a dramatic revelation – Jesus is left out.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Christmas Day, 1941: He was awaiting his impending execution---Instead he heard Caroling

Imagine being in a strange land, arrested by security forces and thrown into a cold, dark cell. You are in solitary and do not know what your fate will be. You fear the executioner will be coming for you.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

he world considers little or of no significance... (www.catholic365.com)

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Christmas Joy & Christmas Surrender

For several days, a certain Christmas song, “Breath of Heaven,” kept coming on, and I wondered to myself, “God, what are you trying to speak to me through this old Amy Grant song from the 90s?” Well, I got my answer one day at Mass. Truly, it was a lesson of Christmas joy and Christmas surrender.... (www.catholic365.com)

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"People are made for happiness. Rightly you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire. But he asks you to trust Him."

Elizabeth's faith, John leaping in Elizabeth's womb and Mary's Magnificat are at the center of this Gospel reading.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Why Did Jesus Come When He Came? The "Fullness of Time": Theology and Philosophy of the Necessary Old Testament Ages

It is truly unfathomable and priceless to our hearts to consider the wonder and beauty of our God, that from the total love and exchange of two persons, wholly to one another—reckless abandonment into their arms and bodies—can come a third priceless person, a child, an immeasurably splendid gift fro... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Power of Music to Lead us to the Divine

Music does inexplicable things to us. The hills are alive with the sound of music. Music moves us. It sways us and causes us to tap our fingers or bop our heads as we listen to the rhythm and beat of that Drake’s “In My Feelings” hiphop hit or Taylor Swift's version of "Last Christmas".... (www.catholic365.com)

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By Nature Fleeting

Teal peered into Sienna’s eyes as they lay on a grassy plain before a mighty cliff. The hot sun beat down on them. He held himself above her, propped on his arms, his knees dug into the grass, the length of her body below him.... (www.catholic365.com)

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History of Church Part 4 - The 3rd century (200 AD to 300 AD)

After six popes were killed in last century for following Christian faith and groups breaking out of one Holy Roman Catholic Church, the conviction of believing in Jesus Christ is still alive, even though 200 years has passed when Jesus Christ left earth.... (www.catholic365.com)

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God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

How wonderful and easy would it would be if God sent messengers directly to us?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Anatomy of a Call from God

We heard many readings leading up to Christmas of angels messaging God's call to Zachariah and Mary. It seems that there are some similarities in how God calls, based on these readings and others in the Gospels.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Seven Joys Of Our Lady – The Franciscan Crown

The month of December is a preparation time in Advent when we, as Catholics, prepare for the Birth of Our Savior. One way we prepare is through focused prayer and routine prayer daily. The Franciscan Crown is a traditional prayer routine, a version of the Holy Rosary which focuses on seven events, a... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas."

If we look at Joseph, we can see that we CAN trust God. That he WILL be there. That he is at work all around us; quietly, but steadily.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Mary, Did You Know?

“Mary Did You Know”? I absolutely disdain this song. I know that many of us love it for it’s sentimentality, but that is the precise reason I dislike it so much. This song trivializes and brings much superficiality to our Blessed Mother’s role in the story of salvation.... (www.catholic365.com)

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As I grow older…though not necessarily wiser…I gain more experience on which to base my judgments. So it’s not completely irrational that I think I know what I’m doing most of the time. The operative word here is “most.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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Time and Eternity; "God, the Universe, andc Everything"

I had been Catholic for about 12 years when I found myself working for the City and County of Denver, Colorado. My office was on one end of the 16th Street Mall, a pedestrian shopping area. A short shuttle ride down the mall was Holy Ghost Catholic Church. I made the decision to, as often as poss... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy."

In the Catholic Christian tradition, we make this distinction between justice and mercy. And I think it’s helpful. “Justice” is to uphold the law. Justice is the right ordering of relationships. Justice is to ensure that we render to each person his or her due. That’s the classical definition of jus... (www.catholic365.com)

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