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Exaggerating for the Lord

All of us love to be entertained with stories that wittily weave exaggeration, fantasy, drama, and real life into what would be otherwise boring stories.... (www.catholic365.com)

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An Epiphany Story

Leaving the confessional was business as usual, nothing but a bright smile walking eagerly to my preferred pew of penance. The way I feel leaving Reconciliation and preparing to take the Eucharist is marveling and it surprises me that I’m not making daily appointments with our pastor.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Sharing the Gospel is difficult. There is no doubt that being a Christian in this day and age - in fact, in any day and age - is not an easy task.... (www.catholic365.com)

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It was just a normal day, or was it ?

It was a normal Sunday morning and I was at 11.30 Mass, as normal. The Priest had walked down the isle to the altar with the Deacon and altar servers at his side, as normal, and my oldest daughter and two Children had slipped into the pew beside me and this was also normal.... (www.catholic365.com)

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How St. Thérèse called me to help spread her Rose Petals of Love.

I don’t understand the fascination with Black Friday. It seems to me the thing that makes Black Friday work is that shoppers must all want to purchase the same thing either for themselves or more nobly to give to someone else, be it the latest appliance, an innovative electronic, that most advertise... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Church is not Anti-Gay

I am so tired of all the anti-gay, anti-LBGTQ, and anti-same sex attraction allegations that are hurled constantly at the Catholic Church. It simply is not true.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

The passage from Hebrews warns us not to become “sluggish” regarding the object of our hope, but instead to keep our attention fixed on it.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Catholic in a Post-Truth World

“Truth. What is truth?” While there are plenty of speculative interpretations attached to Pilate’s remarks, we can’t really know what the Roman governor’s intentions were as he responded to Jesus’ declaration that that those listening to His (Jesus’) words belonged to the Truth.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Below was inspired at a basketball game my sons were playing, as were fat little fat kids around me, zombified by their devices, grimy, little hands digging into bags of chips, one after another, little particles cascading down everywhere.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The great I AM WHO I AM has spoken- Has made the man He loves TO BE an image of Himself.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Visits with Lloyd

Working at the Nursing Home, while making my daily rounds---I go to check on a Hospice resident, whom I shall call Lloyd. When I first saw him, I saw someone confined to his bed, and started to do that nurse thing of checking the physical being before me to be sure he was well cared for.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Beatitude Promises Persecution

In this week’s gospel reading at Mass we hear the Beatitudes, the beginning of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. The Beatitudes (“Blessed are the poor in spirit…Blessed are the meek…Blessed are the merciful,” etc.) explain the way our hearts and minds should be if we truly wish to have a proper relationsh... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Ad Orientem"—the Symbolism is Truly Beautiful

Long ago, in a Church somewhat different, I was an altar boy (it was pre Vatican II and we never used the term altar server). It was a time when the Mass was said in Latin and the priest always faced “ad orientem”.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves.

The Gospel reading reminds us that to be Christian is not a matter of obeying rules and regulations. Christianity is not just a religion in the traditional sense of the word but a way of life, a way of conversion.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Accepting Divine Miracles in My Life With Humility

Most educated people scoff at the idea of miracles, preferring to believe science will eventually provide a plausible explanation for the inexplicable. For these cynics, only the ignorant or gullible donate to fraudulent faith healers or set out on desperate pilgrimages seeking cures.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Holy Innocents and Abortion

On December 28th we celebrated the Holy Innocents, the boys who were killed by Herodes in his attempt to kill Jesus. They are the first martys, because even not knowing, they died because of Jesus.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The devil and distraction

I have a few very close friends, most of whom I would count as extremely faithful people. Although most are Catholic, a few are not. I have great respect for people who come to the fullness of their faith in their tradition and live it genuinely.... (www.catholic365.com)

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I walked to the front of the church this morning to take up the gifts to the altar during Mass. I felt pride swell inside me as I walked with my husband, my oldest son as altar server, my three other beautiful children, and a belly huge and growing a new life... (www.catholic365.com)

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Lord and the Ring

I had occasion to see a video of his appearance on the classic old game show What’s My Line? On which Archbishp Fulton Sheen was the mystery guest.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The will of God is not something you add to your life. It's a course you choose.

John the Baptist was told to look for a sign that the Son of God had come; “on whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will Baptize with the Holy Spirit.... (www.catholic365.com)

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