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A Curmudgeon Smiles

We are waiting in fall’s balance of color and decay, where one purple pansy survives in rotting leaves. Frost dusts the ground with silver.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Advent - A Season of Discomfort?

The holy season of Advent is not associated with any feeling of discomfort or sacrifice - it remains focused on the creature comforts that humanity relies on for “happiness.” And yet, when we reflect back on the period preceding Christ’s birth in Bethlehem, the reality is anything but comfortable.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Fear of the Lord

Our concern could be directed to either place (in spite of friends’ location!) by the often-misunderstood biblical phrase, “fear of the Lord.” If fear of the Lord is wrongly understood to mean fear of punishment from the Lord, then we would be mainly concerned with hell.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 216 – The Birth of John the Baptist

Today we read about the birth of John the Baptist. When he is born, the town comes for the ceremony of circumcision and for the child to be named. They assume he will be named after his father, Zechariah. However, his mother says his name will be John.... (www.catholic365.com)

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A Present That May Change the Presentee's Future

Searching for last-minute Christmas presents your friends will like? So, what about a book?! "Great idea!“ I agree! Next point of interest: What kind of book should it be?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Mel Brooks, One Tablet Dropped, and Ten Horns

The beast and dragon of apocalypse have ten horns. The Harlot of Babylon sits atop the beast, but eventually, the ten horns turn on her, make her desolate, burn her, and eat her flesh.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Makes Me Think Of Elijah

Hide in a Cave and He'll send you a Wave... (www.catholic365.com)

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Love God and do what you will.

This quote by Saint Augustine can feel too good be true. It's easy to somehow think that God wants us to suffer and bear it all for His will. Don't get me wrong, life can have a fair amount of suffering. And if there's anything we know, it's that bad things happen to good people. But to say that God... (www.catholic365.com)

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In his book The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis provided an interesting insight into fortitude or courage, namely, that it is exercised only at the moment it is put to the test: “It is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the highest point of... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 215 – The Annunciation

Today we read about the Annunciation of the birth of Jesus to his mother the Blessed Virgin Mary. There is SO MUCH in these verses that it is hard to get it all into one post. It also requires that I just sort of address the facts and skip the nuance.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Sorrow Mysteries - The Scouraging at the Pillar

Dear Jesus, You hung from that pillar for us and humbly accepted each painful lash of the whips until you did not have strength to stand. We stand before You with our bare souls striped with sin and ask Your forgiveness.... (www.catholic365.com)

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We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God

The parable of the fig tree is telling us to be ready and it is easy to interpret this as being ready for life after this one, but I think it is more than that. I think that Jesus is telling us to notice the signs of the time so we can discern what is of real value and what is fleeting.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Fish With The Temple Tax Coin And Baptism

Temple Tax, Payments and Debt: Jesus Pays the Debt He does not Owe, but WE do! Interesting analogy with the temple tax Scripture: Matthew 17, closing paragraph:... (www.catholic365.com)

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Witch Hunt. Fakes and Facts

One of the classics concerning anticlerical stereotypes is the so-called “witch hunt”, that the Church supposedly operated in the “Middle Ages” against allegedly “wise women” and with “millions of victims”. It is time to bring into discussion newer research results, which stand in sharp contrast to ... (www.catholic365.com)

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At the risk of causing my readers to suffer “quiplash,” I feel that I must quote the old cliché: “The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything.” Or its sister truism: “The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 214 – The Gospel of Luke and the Birth of John the Baptist

Today we start the Gospel of Luke. I love Luke because of the historical nature of this work. He states from the outset that he has approached this as a historical investigation and has made efforts to confirm the things that he is writing. The best historical evidence suggests a date as early as... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Mass is Christmas every day

If you're like me, you love Christmas. The carols, smells, decorations and family time is something special. But, we must never forget that Christmas is a birthday celebration. It's a celebration of when God became man in order to provide salvation for the world. But, as Catholics, we have Christmas... (www.catholic365.com)

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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

Jesus called the apostles, “Come after me.” It was a call firstly to spend time with Jesus.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Who can deny how gently tender petals float on the wind?... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Quest for Virtue - A Journey to Union with God

I’m excited to share with you that my book, The Quest for Virtue, A Journey to Union with God has been released and is now available for sale on Amazon.... (www.catholic365.com)

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