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Are you truly ready for Christmas?

I'm sure that you all are in the swing of the Christmas Season. Your tree is up and decorated, cards and stamps bought and maybe at least half of them have been sent out. Out-door lights up and working? Your Nativity set placed under the tree or on a nearby table complete with baby Jesus?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Advent Hope: The Pathway Through The Heart

God cut a highway right through Bernie Klein’s heart, an artery that could give him life. Not surprisingly, that’s where Love seeped in. “I died and I clearly remember it,” Bernie told me after waking up from a six-week coma brought on by a massive heart attack and subsequent multiple organ failure... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Late Night Reflections of St. Joseph

My name is Joseph Bar-Jacob. It is now about midnight and my wife Mary and the newborn baby are asleep. I’m exhausted, but I’m still overwhelmed by what has happened, and so I can’t possibly doze right now.... (www.catholic365.com)

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May It Be Done To Me According To Your Word

May It Be Done To Me According To Your Word These words that Mary speaks to the Angel Gabriel in assent to God’s plan for her and for the whole world are at once the simplest of phrases and the most difficult.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Homeless Man and True Christmas Giving

He walked into the Cathedral with the others, each being invited to light a candle and bow down in prayer before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. It was a night of vigil; with soft music and songs of the love and mercy of the Lord.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Santa's Priority By Catholics Come Home

New Commercial from CatholicsComeHome.org Open your heart to the greatest gift of all. Is Jesus the focus of your Christmas season? Our souls must come home and seek the Savior first, knowing only Jesus can quench our heart’s greatest thirst. Come back to Mass and celebrate the holy Christmas seas... (www.catholic365.com)

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Gil Hodeges (1924-1972): A Roman Catholic "ALL-STAR"

Gilbert Ray Hodges+ was a Roman Catholic Gentleman, Husband, Father and Family Man, a Combat Decorated U.S. Marine Veteran of WWII (At the Battle of Okinawa, serving with the 16th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion), a Brooklyn Baseball Legend and the Manager of the 1969 World Series Winning "AMAZIN'... (www.catholic365.com)

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Common Ground, Holy Ground

Recently, America Magazine published a conversation between the New York Times journalist Ross Douthat and Fr. James Martin, S.J.. This conversation was in response to Mr. Douthat’s article “Pope and the Precipice,” in which Douthat expressed concern over the tensions within the Church being stretc... (www.catholic365.com)

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Christmas Spirit Lost, Christmas Spirit Regained

There’s nothing like a Christmas ‘down under’ to make you dread the holiday season. Christmas traditions seem more like a perverse form of torture when it’s over one hundred degrees inside and out.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Healing of Wounds and Scars

Forgiveness is not for wimps. Forgiveness takes courage and strength. Forgiveness means letting go of a pain, an injury, or a hurt and allowing God to heal your brokenness.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Celebrating Our First Alzheimer's Christmas Together: Laughter Allowed

I guess the first time I realized that something was really wrong was about a year and a half ago. I have a bedroom I turned into an office and I was sitting at the keyboard clicking away. I sensed someone behind me and turned to see my wife, Marty, standing there. She had a strange look on her face... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Season Of Special Visitors

Christmas Day is coming soon, so it’s time to prepare for those “visitors from the east.” No, I don’t mean the Magi, the mysterious visitors who “traversed afar” over “field and fountain, moor and mountain, following yonder star,” to pay homage to the child Jesus.... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Don't Be Afraid!"

Every year, my family sits down before we open gifts on Christmas Eve to read the Christmas story. The lights are off, except for the lights on the Christmas tree itself, and perhaps a few candles around the house. My father takes the heirloom Bible off the shelf and reads the story aloud. It's a... (www.catholic365.com)

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Suffering, THEN Rebirth with the Christ Child

I once asked a priest what my life would have been like if I had not suffered, if I had married a well-off dentist, had 1.25 kids and lived in an efficient, modern house. He put on a phony, pious face, put his hands together in prayer, and said in a high, mocking voice,”Oh, you would be a nice Chris... (www.catholic365.com)

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2014 Christmas Special: Not all rich kids or people do have X-box.

Children nowadays have frenzy over X-box, PSP, Wii, Game Boy, and what other digital game consoles? I remember when I have volunteered for a Pediatric Camp during college days. It is called Pedya Kamp, handled by God’s Special children, Inc.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Modern Miracles

The modern world heaps scorn on those who have experienced miracles. This cynical attitude simply serves to coerce most legitimate eyewitnesses into silence; only quacks speak out. As a result, of course, society’s prejudice is simply reinforced.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Some Catholic Christmas fun facts

Did you know...? The word 'Christmas' comes from old English, the Mass of Christ or Christ's Mass. Even the word 'holiday' is derived from the phrase 'Holy Day'. Santa Claus IS St. Nicholas (4th Century Bishop of Myra--modern day Turkey). St. Nick went around throwing coins into the homes of poor... (www.catholic365.com)

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Cultivating Advent Hope: Healing Our Decembers

Tears flowed freely during the meeting with my spiritual director, Sandy, as I shared with her the pain I was feeling. “December is here,” I said. “I get such a wave of anxiety and grief at this time of year.” Somehow, I have a hunch I’m not alone in experiencing December this way.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Letter from an Ex-Priest (who doesn't have an agenda against the Church)

So it is our mutual experience of ‘leaving’ the ministry that has connected us. I’m not sure I would have listened to anyone when I left and so I feel a certain responsibility, that I not fail you or Jesus Christ—our High Priest. I pray to the Holy Spirit Who will guide our brief correspondence…... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Mass: a truly wonderful celebration part I

What is the Mass? The first Mass was of course the Last Supper, when Our Lord said the immortal words of consecration for the first time. The Mass as we know it today was formulated by Pope Gregory the Great, and with a few minor changes (such as St. Joseph in the Canon) until the implementation of ... (www.catholic365.com)

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