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Martyrs for all ages
Dear Friends, Within four days this week, the Church in its liturgy celebrates three memorial feasts of martyrs: St. Blaise, St. Agatha, and St. Paul Miki and companions. The saints present a wide range of personalities, nationalities and places. Blaise (died 316) was identified with the district of Cappadocia in ...
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How to Recognize God’s Voice
Dear Friends, Jesus proclaims, “I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me,” assuring us that his sheep can recognize his voice and follow him. Yet, if there was a “most frequently asked question” for spiritual directors, it would probably be – How do you learn ...
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Marveling at the Marvelous
Dear Friends, Americans have always embraced ideals of strength, bravery and justice, and our fascination with superheroes reflects this. They serve as symbols of hope and resilience, inspiring generation after generation. They attack evil in the world around us in flashy ways, but they also, at times, look to make ...
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Change the World
Dear Friends, Have you ever wanted to change the world, to leave a lasting imprint that will be felt long after you are gone? I do. I specifically joined a lay movement in 1999 to change the world with Jesus. After 26 years, I’m still holding on to that. ...
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The Healing Touch
Dear Friends, Today is the feast day of St. André Bessette, a religious whose devotion to a favored saint eventually led to the construction of St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal. Brother André, as he was known, is also famous for the thousands of cures attributed to his prayerful intervention. ...
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The Bridegroom Comes
Dear Friends, During my monthly retreat, I contemplated the mystery of the Incarnation, and these words of Jesus came through in my prayer: “I desire to wed you to myself, to unite myself to flesh.” The response of my heart? “Come, Lord Jesus!” Come into my reality, my struggles, my ...
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Surely My Hope is in You
“In you, oh Lord, my soul in stillness waits; surely my hope is in you.” Dear Friends, Some years back, I was serving in a Home for the Dying with the Missionaries of Charity. There was a woman there who was dying from tuberculosis. She was gasping for breath, ...
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Menuha
“And God saw everything that he had made, and he saw that it was very good…. And on the seventh day God finished all his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day…” Genesis 1:31-2:2 Dear Friends, In his lovely little book, The Sabbath, Abraham ...
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