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Dumb Down Lincoln

This month we celebrate the 151st anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. All the accolades were written last year and I don’t mean to expound upon them; but only to offer a warning: the Common Core initiatives adopted by our schools, even Catholic schools... (www.catholic365.com)

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Amendment 1 doesn't fit into a box.

Today, I stood in line at a christian church to vote. I watched parents pacify their children with car keys and candy as we were corralled into a line of wait. I observed those who were well versed on the amendments, candidates and how each was in and out of their winged-spaces within 5 minutes. Fiv... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Dirty Secret of Romance Novels

“Do you have a trashy book?” the girl next door wanted to know. I was in college and the dorm was a vast collection of paperback novels traded, exchanged or borrowed between girlfriends, especially when classes were called off due to a storm.“A what?” I asked.“A romance novel,” she said.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Letter to depression sufferer

These days are dark for you, I understand. You can't see past the bleakness and confusion of right now. Your mind is filled with a million horrid thoughts. Arrows tearing up your soul suggesting you are unworthy, unlovable and other awful, terrible lies. These are lies. Untruths meant to trip you. T... (www.catholic365.com)

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Out of the Darkness

It’s almost that time of year: when the Christmas movies come at us, one after the other, in rapid succession. There is the fact that many of them don’t realize the irony of showing Christmas movies during Advent. Let’s move beyond that.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Carrie Underwood with Vince Gill How Great thou Art

Happy Thanksgiving from Catholic365.com. Carrie Underwood teams up with Vince Gill in this emotional rendition of How Great Thou Art. It is a perfect expression for us at Catholic365.com to pause and give thanks to Almighty God, Who has graced our lives with so many great blessings.. We are thankf... (www.catholic365.com)

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All Souls--Dear God Letters

"As the deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God." Psalm 42:2. My soul thirsts for heavenly desires after a life of flesh, and worldly needs. My soul is only strengthened when at Holy Mass I encounter the only true love my soul desires--that which my soul only truly craves ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Time to Pause, Take a Breath, and Give Thanks to HIM

The simplicity of the Thanksgiving Holiday captured my spirit decades ago. This is the one day of the year where we, as Americans, just stop everything and take a breath from the year gone by to say THANK YOU to God.... (www.catholic365.com)

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ADVENT: WATCHING AND WAITING

Advent kicks off the Liturgical year in the Western churches. During this time the faithful are admonished to prepare themselves to celebrate the Lord’s First Coming into the world as Savior by receiving Him in the Eucharist and in many other occasions of grace, and also to be ready for His final co... (www.catholic365.com)

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Hate + hate = malice hate x hate = evil hate – love = gloom hate – hate = hope... (www.catholic365.com)

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A past Sunday’s homily, Matthew 25 14-30 speaks of how a rich master entrusted three slaves with money. These slaves were not supervised, and were given great responsibility with a large sum of money. Through skillful training and investing, two of the slaves were able to have their monies multiply.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Dear Ann Voskamp: Why All Women Need A Relationship With Mary

Dear Ann, I like your work. I really like your work. You have a way with words that boggles the mind and settles the soul. Your insights can be astounding, and it’s clear as day they’re the ripe fruit of prayer. Thank you for that offering.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Don't Alienate Your Non-Religious Family This Year

Whether you're hosting a huge family dinner or having Friends Thanksgiving, you're likely to run into people who aren't Catholic, people who have mostly walked away from their Catholic faith, or lukewarm Catholics who are still going to Mass, but lack the joy of our great faith.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Let's Give Our Kids a Sense of the Sacred

I read a Facebook conversation the other day discussing the style of Mass that people find appeals most to their children. Surprisingly, or maybe not so much, many of the parents said that Masses full of artificial elements meant to appeal to children were not the ones where their children were most... (www.catholic365.com)

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Help the Poor Souls

November is the month of the Poor Souls in Purgatory. The Holy Founder of the Marians,Blessed Stanislaus Papczynski, says the greatest work of charity is to pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. He said "pray brethren for the souls in purgatory for they suffer unbearably."... (www.catholic365.com)

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When Life Throws You Lemons, And You Can't Make Lemonade

Bad days come with the territory. Those no good, rotten days are inevitable. The affirmation says, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade," but if you don't have sugar or artificial sweetener, what do you make? Do you let those lemons rot and develop mold, or do you slice them and eat them?... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Anima Christi Amplified

It’s been around since the 14th century, this beautiful prayer that I say after I receive Jesus in the Eucharist. Before I knew the Anima Christi, my post-communion prayer was sometimes a fumbling for words to express the awesome experience of knowing I had Jesus in His Body, Soul, and Divinity with... (www.catholic365.com)

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November and Aisle Two

Last night I met a woman named Sharon. I was on a late-night shopping run at a big-box store, and though we were never formally introduced, I learned her name from her cheerfully decorated name tag.... (www.catholic365.com)

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What did Mary really know?

It’s amazing how sometimes a chance remark or a word spoken in jest can lead one to think something anew or with a fresh point of view.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Roe v. Wade Created Schizophrenic Nation

A few years ago a 25-year-old Stamford, CT, woman was charged with murdering her newborn son by stabbing him with a kitchen utensil minutes after he was born. The woman was held on $1 million bond.... (www.catholic365.com)

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