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Alms from the Alabaster Jar

“While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked. “This perfume could have b... (www.catholic365.com)

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Belief and Trust

While engaged in my hobby of bookstore browsing, a book of phrases caught my attention because it gave a humorous twist to biblical phrases. One phrase that evoked a chuckle was, “O ye of little faith,” with its definition: “Those who look both ways before crossing a one-way street.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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Hello Joe; What do you know?

My wife and I just celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary. We have four kids who range from 25 down to 2. Those four kids have three different biological fathers. Context is everything and I want to give you some context to this. When my wife and I met 18 years ago, she had a 7-year-old son. She ha... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Come Follow Me" How To Manual

Opening Bible for daily B-Mail—found John sending a letter today. As I read, the Holy Spirit led me to see the connection with this Lents theme hidden in John’s writings.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Beauty of the Risen Lord

In my previous writing, “A Lenten Reflection" I used our five senses to enhance the thoughts that could connect our Lenten journey to the need for the Lord’s presence and intercession in our walk moving towards Easter and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Humility's Forgotten Gem: Confidence

Humility. Is there any other word that is like kryptonite to the soul? I do not know about you, but if there is one virtue I avoid talking about or exemplifying, it has to be humility. No, I do not run around telling the world how great I am. On the same token, I do not consider a humble attitude to... (www.catholic365.com)

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Do you know your next door neighbor?"

Today Jesus gives us the “Golden Rule”. He gives a new focus for our moral choices, asking us to see ourselves in others. If we saw another person as “our self”, we wouldn’t make many of the choices that we do.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Lent, Fasting, and Receiving Divine Light

Lent is a sacred season which helps us to make sense of life. Why is this the case? Precisely because through the sincere and ardent practice of the disciplines of Lent—prayer, fasting and almsgiving—our lives are reoriented to Christ, which means our lives have more meaning—divine light floods in, ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Worry and Trust

Imagine Jesus appearing to you and giving you a specific command to avoid something, and then restating that command five more times. You would certainly take that admonition seriously. This is exactly what Jesus did when he delivered a forceful sermon condemning worry as a sign of lack of trust in ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Hacksaw Ridge and The New Civil Discourse Part II

I recently published part 1 of Hacksaw Ridge and The New Civil Discourse addressing the division our nation is experiencing 4 Solutions to Achieving Unity. Today I wish to share four solutions to achieving the unity all of us, no matter which side of the aisle we are on, are looking for.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Are you Ready? - short story about a future church

The year is 2155 AD at a time in history where so many predictions of the 1900’s and earlier swept into the 21st century with so little preparation by government and church leaders to prepare spiritually for what could become the ultimate end of Judeo-Christian principles and life as we knew it shou... (www.catholic365.com)

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St Patrick's Day

St Patrick is one of the most popular and well know saints, at least in the United States. His feast day is celebrated in almost every city in America, with parades, dinners, and drunken festivities. He's celebrated by not only the Irish diaspora, and not only by Catholics, but by just about every g... (www.catholic365.com)

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Catholic Teen Books Helps Parents, Teachers Find Good Books for Catholic Teens

Steering teens toward entertaining yet edifying media is a challenge. In the case of movies and television programming, ratings can offer some indication of content. In the case of books, consumer reviews on retail sites offer some information... (www.catholic365.com)

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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

In the Gospel reading, in similar fashion, Jesus castigates the people for their hardness of heart and unwillingness to see and to listen to his message.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Cracks and Lent

Right now, we're in the midst of Lent; a time to fix what is broken in our lives, in our relationship with God and maybe even with other people. And I got to thinking about something while walking around the other day and seeing cracks.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The mythical story is as old as the messages on my answering machine, but it’s worth retelling. It has to do with a frustrated hiker who approached a chasm he couldn’t cross. He saw a daredevil acrobat crossing it on a tightrope above hundreds of feet of empty space while pushing a woman in a wheelb... (www.catholic365.com)

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Driving IT Home: Educating Your Children

Our unsurpassed and all-defining identity, mission and purpose on this planet: Image the Trinity. Marriage and family are iconic of the Trinity. In our capacity to love, we literally participate in the life of the Trinity. We are called, literally, to make God, who is Love, known... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Door - Short Story

The young man sat staring into a bright blue sky with only birds’ singing penetrating his hearing. Thoughts of an easy life, big cars, money, and prestige-lots of prestige kept entering his mind.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Stretching Beyond Our Limits? Catholics and Yoga

If you ever want to understand what it was like for St. Paul when he was preaching to the Corinthians about the dangers of meat sacrificed to idols, then you should try convincing another Christian not to practice yoga. Convincing people of the serious threat that yoga poses is often very difficult... (www.catholic365.com)

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Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

When we look at the Our Father in the context of Saint Matthew’s gospel account, it’s striking that the first topic that Jesus discusses after ‘handing over’ this prayer to His disciples is the forgiveness of sins. This is not surprising, but it is striking.... (www.catholic365.com)

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