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Love is always ready to deny itself, to give, sacrifice, just in the measure of its sincerity and intensity. Perfect love is perfect self-forgetfulness. Hence where there is love in a home, unselfishness is the law.

I wonder if greed is not mostly a matter of insecurity. When we get greedy, we never have enough. Enough for what? To be happy? To feel safe and secure? To feel powerful? We can seem to forget that our only security comes from God. Our only happiness is in God.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Are You a Self-Made Man who Worships His Maker?

Like most European Catholics I was born and brought up in the aftermath of the Renaissance, influenced by a spirituality that owed as much to the rise of humanism as to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Naturally I thought that if I were to attain the perfection to which I aspired, it would be primarily t... (www.catholic365.com)

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Stop Singing Those Songs!

Have we become so egocentric in our worship that we’ve lost ourselves? When did the tides turn so that when we come for worship, we instead of turning to God in his glory and majesty we instead started turning to ourselves as the center and focus of everything?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Speak Up, Not Down!

The term "forked tongue" need not always connote duplicity; it may connote speech options. The tongue may curse or bless. It may engage in gossip, or charitably redirect such conversation. It may take God's name in vain or call upon God in humble prayer.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 173 – Death Leads to Life

Paul’s words today are profound and every Christian should reflect and pray on them carefully.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Police! Raise Your Hands!

I do not remember exactly who taught me to raise my hands, but today, the purpose of this writing is to invite them to do it too.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Your life is not meant to be used in exchange for mundane things like houses and cars but to purchase greatness.

God respects our freedom. This is why Jesus asked the Pharisees and Herodians in this Gospel reading, "Whose head is this, and whose name?"... (www.catholic365.com)

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Mystical Union Is Not a Fairytale — It's Child's Play

We have all read of saints who claim to live in mystical union with Christ. The image which comes to mind is of a medieval monk, morose and miserable, wearing a hair shirt and living on bread and water.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Ultimate Failure of Postmodern Progressivism

We see postmodernism drawing its tentacles around everything in our lives; it is the ultimate social parasite. We see progressives trying to take control of the government and our culture.... (www.catholic365.com)

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What's It Worth?

In one single hour in the United States, more steel is poured than all the gold ever mined in the history of mankind! If all gold ceased to exist, it wouldn't cause any drastic change in our society. But if steel suddenly ceased to exist, our entire society would collapse, with its machinery, its bu... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 172 – The Old Covenant Fades Away

The Old Covenant is written in stone. The New Covenant is written in spirit on the hearts of men. The Old Covenant was restrictive and leads to death. The in the New Covenant the spirit gives freedom and life.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Pope John II, The First Pope To Change His Name

Little is known about Mercurius, son of Projectus, other than that he was a Roman. And Mercurius is not known to Western culture under his given name. We know him as Pope John II, who took the throne, January 2, 533.... (www.catholic365.com)

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I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

Our lives as Christians have become more challenging, more complicated and even confused, with the plurality of messages in widespread media.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Meet "Annie"; One of God's Great Champions

There is a light that can never be looked upon because it is so brilliant you would be blinded forever. This light shines inside God’s chosen ones, many of whom are marginalized and disabled. There are many of us who can sense this light and embrace those who have it.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Advocate for the Poor Souls

Without appearing to be too repetitious, this is the fourth article from me that deals either directly or indirectly with the Poor Souls in Purgatory.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The "Good Old Days" Are Still Here!

Collegiate survey takers now say that very few engineering students have ever seen a slide rule or even know what it is. In this cybernetic age math is done with calculators and computers.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 171 – Personal Conflict

Paul seems to have a real problem with this one guy in Corinth. Although he doesn’t say exactly what the dispute is about it seems that the two are really at odds over something and it is an important lesson for us. You see, we won’t always get along with the bishops.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Can You Pass the Sugar, Please

Amy McDougal was sitting in a restaurant one day, enjoying a nice hot cup of coffee and biscotti-- when a rough looking gentlemen -- from the other end of the counter yelled to her -- -- can you pass the sugar, please?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. - Don't be afraid.

In the secular culture that surrounds modern Western man, the only image of Jesus that is acceptable is that of a spiritual teddy bear. The idea that Jesus makes demands or sets boundaries is incompatible with modern secularism.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Mary of Egypt: The Journey from a Life of Sin to Redemption to Sainthood

In his "Essay on Man", Alexander Pope penned three words that became immortalized; "Hope springs eternal". Nowhere do these words fit better than into the Catholic Church. For the Church of Christ is the home of forgiveness, mercy and, of course, redemption. Meet, Mary of Egypt.... (www.catholic365.com)

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