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SILENCE in the 2nd WEEK of ADVENT
Biblical revelation and the lives of the Saints all make clear that God speaks to us the best in silence. We need it, far more than we admit these days and Advent is a great season to make some time...
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3rd SUN ADVENT- REJOICE
St. Mother Teresa of Cacutta viewed silence as essential for prayer, spiritual growth, and finding God. She believed that silence is where one can hear God's voice, and this leads to a chain...
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4TH SUNDAY ADVENT- THE LORD IS NEAR
The Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him.” Habakkuk 2:20 We are in the last days of Advent, which means Christmas is close, and hence the demand on our time can...
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CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS
We have not done much these past weeks in Advent, with the art of Ukraine, and as the war there rages on and on, with the people living through another war, we present some new art (at least for me)...
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WAR AND PEACE- A SAVIOR IS BORN
WARTIME CHRISTMASLed by a star, a golden star, The youngest star, an olden star, Here the kings and the shepherds are, A kneeling on the ground. What did they come to the inn to see? God in the...
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HOLY FAMILY
House of Christmas - G. K. ChestertonThere fared a mother driven forthOut of an inn to roam;In the place where she was homelessAll men are at home.The crazy stable close at hand,With shaking timber...
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HOLY FAMILY IN EXILE
Irenaeus Yurchuk’s Nativity is a response to Russia’s 2022 military invasion of Ukraine. We do not seen the traditional, peacefilled birth of our savior, but rather a war-zone Nativity. It shows the...
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THE MOTHER OF OUR GOD
We start a new year and as the war in Ukraine continues, we pray the beautful prayers to Theotokos:Rejoice, Virgin Birthgiver-of-God, Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among...
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EPIPHANY
.THE MAGIIt might have been just someone else's story;Some chosen people get a special king,We leave them to their own peculiar glory, We don't belong, it doesn't mean a thing.But when these three...
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BAPTISM
THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST Beginning here we glimpse the Three-in-one; The river runs, the clouds are torn apart, The Father speaks, the Spirit and the Son Reveal to us the single loving heart That beats...
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WIFE OF A VENERABLE
It is time that we get back to our saints or saints to be. Starting off the New Year is a woman who has been known mostly through her husband, but was a "go-getter for God", in her own right....
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DOCTOR TO THE POOR
The next posts about saints or those being considered for canonization were either in the field of medicine or suffered and died from an illness.BL. LADISLAUS BATTHYANY-STRATTMANN, a layman, doctor...
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NEXT MILLENNIAL SAINT?
Our next saint to be, another young man to hopefully one day join the ranks with Sts. Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlos Acuti, is JOE WILSON, a young Scotsman who expressed his profound relationship...
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CHICLAYO AGAIN
Once again the unknown (outside of Peru) city of CHICLAYO is in the news. It is not because of the Holy Father, who was bishop there from 2015 to 2023, when he was called to Rome.Because Chiclayo, on...
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IRISH YOUTH AGAINST SUICIDE
Our next hopefully saint to be, is another youth, from the same part of the world as our last young man, but this time Ireland. DONAL WALSH (my Irish ancestors were Walshes but came to this country...
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WORLD BIRDING
GREAT BACKYARD BIRD COUNT is next weekend Feb. 13-15. Last year’s global count yielded 8,078* species of the world’s known species, that is 158 more than in 2024. Hundreds of thousands of people...
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MISSING FEBRUARY
As we age, it is necessary to give up some of the things we have been passionate about in our earlier years. For me, probably the hardest of these, was giving up the role of shepherdess in the...
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AT LAST- A NEW AMERICAN SAINT
VENERABLE FULTON J. SHEEN will finally be beatified. No date or location for the beatification has been given. His beatification had been postponed due to a public battle to relocate his remains from...
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LENT WITH CARYLL HOUSELANDER
In these troubled times in our country- our world- I find that the writings of the English mystic, Caryll Houselander, to be very relevant. She had much empathy for all suffering humanity, and at the...
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CONDEMNATION
We live a century after Caryll Houselander, and yet our times parallel hers. We know war, and we know a world of unrest, especially in our own country. I am sure if she were alive today, she would...
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YOUNG PATRON OF LAWYERS
We continue our theme of saints or saints to be who suffered from serius illness and died young. Our next young man could become a patron of young lawyers, helping them to make the right decisions in...
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DOWN ON HIS KNEES
The Passion of Jesus was an experience which included every experience, except sin, of every member of the human race. The fourteen Stations of the Cross show not only the suffering but the psychology...
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HIS DEATHBED
“He comes to it gladly! This is a strange thing, for the cross is a symbol of shame, and it is to be His deathbed. Already He sees the very shape of His death in the wide-spread arms. From this...
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A STAMP FOR UKRAINE
On February 27, 2026, the Vatican unveiled a new postage stamp honoring Ukraine's Catholics, with the design showing their cathedral in Kyiv during a blackout in an unusually pointed reference to the...
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HIS MOTHER
“Jesus is on His feet again, once more he starts on His way. As He lifts his bowed head and looks at the road He is to tread, He comes face to face with His mother.It is not by chance that she meets...
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