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Oh, the good I could have done! The sin of omission.

Many times, we waste our time on meaningless activities when we could have been doing something better. This is not to demean recreational activities as they can re-create/refresh ourselves. We can take them too far, however. Then, they become meaningless, like other activities we sometimes hide ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Love and Salt - Book Review

There is something raw and beautiful about reading letters that takes the soul back in time. Reading a collection of letters feels like you are peeking into someone else’s life; personal life of confessions, doubts, fear, and even love. The art of letter writing is much lost in today’s world but not... (www.catholic365.com)

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Jesus, Religion and My Friends...

An old and dear friend recently posted a video on Facebook of a rap poem that went viral five years ago, about hating religion but loving Jesus. Among its many claims, the poet suggests that Christ came to abolish the institutionalized practice of devotion to God because of corruption.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Have You Written Your Obituary?

Instead of paying a fine for your next traffic violation, how would you like to write your own obituary? Or would you prefer to interview an undertaker, or perhaps view the bodies of traffic victims in the local morgue? An alternative might be to spend a few hours in a hospital emergency room, viewi... (www.catholic365.com)

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Sifting to the truth of the First Lady and veiling

There has been a lot of hype, both on social media and in mainstream media, about the First Lady of the United States Melania Trump not wearing a veil during her visit in Saudia Arabia with officials but the next day she veiled in the presence of Pope Francis at the Vatican.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Medjugorje, Two Popes, and Me

Medjugorje: The alleged site of a series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to six young visionaries beginning in 1981 ignited a storm of controversy and persecution. Thirty-six years later, questions remain unanswered to the satisfaction of skeptical Catholic and secular minds.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Justice Sister of Prudence, Fortitude and Temperance

Since most of us are disobedient to God [proven by the fact that we have sins to confess] — are we relegated to the practice of imperfect, man-made justice on earth?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Wait and See---Good Things Will Come to You---Wait and See

In all the stories told in the Bible, I do not recount one where there were instant arrivals at the Promised Lands. You know, the places where the people of faith went from point A to point B in just a matter of days. One exception maybe—the Resurrection of Christ, but even that event was preceded b... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Chicago Public Library recently declared an “amnesty Day: for borrowers of overdue books. With no fines and no questions asked, over then thousand books were returned, some overdue since 1934!... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 33 – The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

The parable of the unforgiving servant is fairly straight forward but I’d like to highlight two things. First, it says that the debt owed the king was “a large sum of money”. Some translations translate it more literally as “ten thousand talents”. A single talent was a significant sum of money.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Magic of the Sacraments

One of the common criticisms leveled at Catholics by other Christians is related to the Sacraments—how can grace actually depend upon matter? They accuse the Catholics of superstition and magic.... (www.catholic365.com)

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We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

In our gospel, Jesus is starting His good-bye. The apostles understandably are grieving – they are going to lose Him again. They cannot yet see the whole picture and how this story must unfold. Perhaps they are fearful of how all of this will turn out. There is a bravado when He is around – they... (www.catholic365.com)

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Getting Creative With Dead Bodies?

These days, people are coming up with all kinds of creative ideas. Some of these are morally good and praiseworthy. Others not so much. Still others have to make you wonder what people are thinking. Examples of late include getting creative with dead human bodies.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Catholic & Anxious.

I was in a random parking lot, on the phone with a friend, basically having a break down. The weird thing is, I couldn’t really figure out why I was having the break down. There had been a lot going on in my life that possibly could have contributed, but none of the pieces quite fit together.... (www.catholic365.com)

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An Easy Way to Make It Rain

Would you believe that it’s possible to make it rain by simply demanding it with a loud voice? It’s true! High in China’s Gaoligong Mountains in the northwest part of Yunnan Province are a group of pools nicknamed “The Enchanting Lakes.” When anyone shouts for rain while standing near the lakes, a d... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 32 – Go Tell it To the Church!

This shows that the Church is not something created by the Apostles after Jesus’ death. It is something he starts while he is alive. And it is NOT simply an invisible body of all believers. It will have structure and rules. An organization that has structure and rules will have officers and offi... (www.catholic365.com)

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Mary - Mother and Role Model

The month of May is resplendent with celebrations of Mary’s crowning and recognition of her role in our salvation. Statues of the Blessed Mother across the world are adorned with crowns of flowers and hymns are sung in honor of her sweet acceptance of God’s will.... (www.catholic365.com)

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All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed and third it is accepted as being self-evident

Blessed John Henry Newman said, “…it is our plain duty to preach and defend the truth in a straightforward way…” This quote applies as much today as it did when he preached it in the 19th century. Just whose duty is it to defend the truth in our culture? Whose job is it to make our Catholic voice he... (www.catholic365.com)

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The sacraments are meant to make us more like Christ

The Catechism states that sacraments are “efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us.” (CCC §1131) It means that with the signs (of words, water, oil, bread, wine, etc.) grace is truly given to us. It also means that we are b... (www.catholic365.com)

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I am God personified

Jesus often taught people to refer to God as the Father. And He often said that He is the Son of God. This must have scandalised the Jews and their elders, the Pharisees and Sadducees, who crucified Him for the blasphemy of saying He is the Son of God.... (www.catholic365.com)

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