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It's a Wonderful Life: St. Francis knows how to lasso the moon

"It’s a Wonderful Life" is a Christmas classic through and through. The deep and uplifting message about the dignity and value of every human life is refreshing, heartwarming, and spreads holiday cheer at a faster pace that George and Mary’s Charleston.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Why the Immaculate Conception Matters

Throughout the history of the Church, the challenge to orthodoxy of heretical teachings has always brought with it the fruit of a development in doctrine. Nearly every dogmatic definition has come when a particular teaching was challenged. At first glance however, the feast that we celebrate today... (www.catholic365.com)

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God Reveals Himself Through the Incarnation

The late Charles Colson once wrote: “It’s true that most Americans profess to believe in God, but this God is a far cry from the God of Scripture. More than a century of naturalism has eroded our belief that God is providential—that is, in charge of all events.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.

Fulfilling our vocation of joy does not mean preaching conversion and debating the need to go to Mass. Consider every interaction with others as an opportunity for them to meet Jesus, even if they stubbornly refuse to recognize him in you.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Disney's Prep and Landing: The Christmas Elves of Advent

It seems like everyone has been playing Christmas music and watching Christmas movies since Thanksgiving. So if you manage to hold off until Gaudete Sunday before pulling out the jingle bells, I applaud you. Society has been rushing into Christmas sooner and sooner each year, skipping over the all t... (www.catholic365.com)

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Our Lady of Kibeho – Marian Apparitions in Rwanda & The Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary

The Marian apparitions in Rwanda just marked the 35th anniversary since Our Lady of Kibeho first visited with adolescents on November 28, 1981. The main messages of Our Lady in Rwanda were very similar to that of her other apparitions: a call to prayer, conversion of sinners, warnings about the evil... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Waiting Dilemma

Grasses brown beneath fallen leaves, but air is not really cold. Leafless tree-branches shower... (www.catholic365.com)

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Post Election Trauma

After one of the most chaotic presidential campaigns in American history, the smoke is clearing but the fires are still burning. Across the nation, people continue to riot and protest out of a feeling of political impotency (well-deserved for the many who didn’t even vote).... (www.catholic365.com)

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Evidently Catholic

One of my random memories of childhood is meeting a friend of my parents who was Catholic. I must have been five or six at the time, and the only Catholics I knew were my neighbors, the Murphys.... (www.catholic365.com)

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What we do see depends mainly on what we look for....

All genuine prayer in our own lives is an expression of the working of the Holy Spirit within us.... (www.catholic365.com)

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A Christmas Gift from a Bosnian Refugee

During Christmas of 2005, my family learned the true meaning of “home for Christmas.” It took a 22-year-old Bosnian refugee visiting the United States to teach us.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Sympathy for the Devil and to Next Year in Cuba...

On Christmas Eve 1978, as my great grandfather was in his final stage of life, we were gathered at my cousin's house in Chicago. Most of the family was there, at least those of us living in exile. I remember because that was the winter the great blizzard hit the Windy City shortly after we left.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Good St. Nicholas

Today (Dec. 6) is the feast of St. Nicholas, bishop of Smyrna, certainly one of the most popular saints celebrated in our Church, as well as in by the Eastern Church.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Yes, Catholics Can Believe In Santa Claus

Today, December 6th, is the death anniversary of Saint Nicholas, who passed on nearly 1700 years ago in either 345 or 352 A.D., yet Santa Claus lives on! Among Catholics and other fellow Christians, a great debate rages whether children should be introduced to Santa Claus or not, with strong argumen... (www.catholic365.com)

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Christmas and a Homeless Man Named Charles

Long, stringy, unkept hair framed his down-turned face as he sat sleeping on the Walmart bench. His ragged, dirty clothes hung loosely so that his size was masked. A hand of fresh bananas laying beside him, someone had taken pity and left the small meal for his discovery when he awoke.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Keep vigilance over your hearts because the devil is astute. He is never cast out forever. It will only be so on the last day.

This preparation does not involve stocking up on canned goods or bottled water nor does it involve complacency.... (www.catholic365.com)

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“And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose, (Rom. 8:28). Do you believe that? Do you believe that He’ll make all things work in your favor if you trust him?... (www.catholic365.com)

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A Call of the Spirit

A siren call, it is; a whisper to the sleeping soul; A call of awakening that seeps out of the soul;... (www.catholic365.com)

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How are you experiencing Advent?

How are you experiencing Advent? I like the way John Michael Talbot describes it: "Get to journey through Advent first. It's a season of repentance, like Lent with a bit of sugar on top! Then we are ready for Christmas!”... (www.catholic365.com)

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Your sins aren't that special

“Your sins aren’t that special.” The girls giggled, perhaps a little shocked by what I said, simply because it came as a surprise. They were concerned about going to Confession to a priest they knew.... (www.catholic365.com)

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