Monday, Second Week of Lent What kind of measure are you measuring with? Are you measuring with a teaspoon? Or do you measure in gallons? Jesus is very clear that if you carefully measure out a small amount and make sure not to give too much, this will be what we will receive. If we […]
Naming the Days of Lent My family and I were wondering why only certain days of Lent have names such as Ash Wednesday or Holy Thursday. We had heard that in the Eastern Churches, Lent begins with a day called Clean Monday. That made us decide to come up with names for every day of
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Postcard Twenty-Three From place to place they traveled, but no one wanted to let them join their tribe. Finally one dark night, they arrived in a poor camp, where the people were said to be thieves and perhaps worse. The dogs barked and the people picked up sticks to drive off the travelers. Suddenly a
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You Are One of the greatest things I knowThat you hid for me to find outIn a place so sweetly unmissableIs that you are the kissable. You’re the wetness in rain, whiteness in snow.The sweetness in taste, softness in dough.Gladness in oil, deepness in mudAnd the lifeness you give, you give with your blood. — Rachel
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St. John Vianney and Prayer Meditation One What is prayer? This is a series of meditations based on St. John Vianney’s teaching on prayer. We have only two duties: to pray and to love. Think of that! There are only two things you must do in your life. And, in a certain sense, these two
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July 13th is the feast day of the first American layman to be beatified. I love “Charlie”, as Carlos Manuel Rodriguez is affectionately known. And I am not alone. It seems like there is something about Charlie that just makes people love him. After he died in 1963, the hospital refused to take any payment
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When Jesus appeared to the Apostles after the Resurrection, St. Thomas wasn’t there. And when the other apostles told him about what they had seen, he wouldn’t believe it. He even said, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my
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