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Homeschooling and More...

I attended the local Catholic Homeschool Conference this year; I actually learned a lot. I have been homeschooling since my daughter's been in Kindergarten. Now, we have a first grader and third grader this year. We are doing First Communion Preparation, etc. this year too.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The force of His words is clear. He does not say merely that the kingdom of heaven is for the childlike. He says that the kingdom belongs to them; it is made up of children and of those who come as children.

Movies and folklore often portray how difficult it is for heroes to see the gods; epic quests, impossible obstacles, and mortal danger await those who try. In contrast, the one, true God wants us to get close to Him. He longs for us to open our minds and hearts to His love.... (www.catholic365.com)

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8 Thoughts on Motivation and Mass Attendance

Sometimes even if we love the Mass, we lack motivation to go. The problem with skipping Mass is that we lose valuable graces when we don’t go. Here are a few thoughts on how to keep going even when we don’t feel like it.... (www.catholic365.com)

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God's Pretty Smart

God's pretty smart," observed a perspicacious fourth-grader. "Long before eyeglasses were invented, he put our nose and ears in the right places."... (www.catholic365.com)

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Do You Really Want to be Healed?

Ouch or Touché! I was kneeling at Mass dealing with the side effects of an eye drop I use for my glaucoma. This problem started 3 years ago when I developed severe weakness in the legs and body; along with sensitivity to light and noise so bad that I would get dizzy or mind could not think.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 80 – Spreading the Word

Today we read Paul setting out on his second missionary journey. He immediately meets Timothy who is ½ Jewish and ½ Greek. Timothy had converted and Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Just a Weary Pilgrim

For some reason, “pilgrim” was my word for today. It stood out to me both at my time of prayer and when Father happened to use it in his homily at Mass.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Be confidently assured that any ‘gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them.

We may no longer worship false gods and images, as the ancient Greeks and Romans did; but we do have many gods in our lives- money and success, power and prestige, the approval of others and our own self-esteem, sex and drugs - the list goes on.... (www.catholic365.com)

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There are so many expressions we convey to others when someone passes away. "Gone to soon" is one of the most common, and is an unfortunate statement. "Gone too soon" is an empty platitude that actually undermines our faith and the hopefulness that we should always exude in our Lord Jesus Christ.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Little Girl Get Up

If you’re like me you probably spent much of your life worrying about what people think of you, or various other anxieties that happen throughout the day. I often feel like I spent a good majority of my adult life in a fog. Chasing that next happiness, but once achieving it, like a ghost, the happin... (www.catholic365.com)

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What Have We Become? Are People Now Sport?

Have you ever viewed a Seinfeld skit and learned to laugh at what is satirical about life’s situations? One can see the obvious scenarios that do exist within a society that can sit back and view what the world sees as real, but then turn off the TV and go about their daily routine of living and fo... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 79 – The Apostles Letter to the Churches

Having decided the matter before them, the Council of Jerusalem sends a letter to the Churches to advise them of the decision. It is the first encyclical sent out by the Church.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Prayer Notebook and The Rem Dog

Last year I started writing prayer requests into a small notebook. Whenever a friend, family member, or fellow parishioner had a need—usually health related—I would enter his or her name in my notebook and pray for them each morning.... (www.catholic365.com)

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There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

To follow after Christ is not always easy, yet it is the one with the most rewards. The challenges may, indeed, be of this earth, but the rewards surely are not!... (www.catholic365.com)

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Movie Review for Dunkirk

The war movie Dunkirk is a visual immersion into war and a massive evacuation of a stuck army. The British director, Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins, Inception) uses many techniques to explore the realities of the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Build up the Ancient Ruins

After finishing a silent retreat, I opened my Bible to where I had some papers sticking out. I had marked this section because of the first three verses of Isaiah 61. They were the Scripture verses my college women’s group considered “our” passage.... (www.catholic365.com)

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A Friar's Prayer to The Most Precious Blood of Jesus

O Most Precious Blood of Jesus, Cover Me, O Most Precious Blood of Jesus, Protect Me, O Most Precious Blood of Jesus, Sanctify Me, O Most Precious Blood of Jesus, Guide Me. Amen.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 78 – The Authority of the Church to Interpret Scripture

As we reach the end of Acts chapter 14 and the beginning of chapter 15 we see Paul’s first missionary journey coming to an end. Paul returns to Antioch and a controversy arises.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Importance of Acknowledging Christ In Combating Neo-Deism

Deism is today the “common sense” religion of many Catholics and other Christians in America. On a subliminal and personal level, it has fused itself with Christian beliefs, forming a new kind of faith based on feel-good dogmas and relativized sexual ethics.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.

The message is clear. Despite some failures, the soil ultimately succeeds. The harvest grows. There is no mention of the weather, i.e. rain, water, sun shine, etc. This is a story of the inevitability of the Reign of God! No matter the conditions the soil will yield success.... (www.catholic365.com)

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