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LIBERTY- A POPE PAYS HOMAGE TO OUR COUNTRY
My visit to your City would not have been complete without coming to Battery Park, without seeing Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty in the distance. Every nation has its historical symbols. They...
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SAINT FROM NORTH DAKOTA?
Will we soon have another American saint? In June Bishop David Kagan of the Diocese of Bismarck, N.D., announced the opening of the investigation which could lead to the beatification and canonization...
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TODAY'S MARTYRS - PRIESTS
As I wash the veggies we just got from the mainland, I am aware that much of our produce, even in our farm rich state, comes from Mexico. As I prepare these vegetables I think of the many priests...
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ON-GOING COURAGE
Like all tragedies in our modern world, when they go on and on, we tend to forget, or become hardened to the death toll. This is the case of the on-going destruction of the Ukraineand her people. Now...
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TO LOVE A MOTH
Why is it that we all love a butterfly, but its closest relative, the moth, is often sent packing? Last year at this time I did a short Blog for National Moth Week- always the last week of July. This...
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REVIVAL IN OUR CHURCH
There is an emphasis today in our church on the Eucharist and many are calling it a “revival”.Our Catholic Bishops are concerned (and it certainly is my experience of the many people who come to visit...
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ELDERLY IN THE CHURCH AND WORLD
Almost 25 years ago the Pontifical Council for the Laity put out "The Dignity of Older People and their Mission in the Church and in the World". As we today celebrate the feast of STS. JOACHIM AND...
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ANOTHER NUN POET- A BENEDICTINE
I recently came across another nun writer and this one was a Benedictine. MARIELLA GABLE, OSBwas an American academic, writer, poet, and literary critic.She was born Mary Margaret Gable in St. Croix...
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WORDS OF HOPE AND REDEMPTION - IN CANADA
Yesterday in the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Québec, Pope Francis preached on hope and redemption. “On the path of life and faith, as we seek to achieve the dreams, plans, hopes and...
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EUCHARISTIC MYSTERY
Art: Andy SchmalenFrom Our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II's World Youth Day homily on Sunday, August 24, 1997 in Paris, France:"Rabbi, where are you...
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LONG LIVE THE KING!
We have done recent Blogs on modern saints devoted to the Eucharist, namely Pope St. John Paul, Bl. Carlos Acutis and St. Charles de Foucauld. Another young man who died saving the Blessed Sacrament...
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SAINT OF THE EUCHARIST
A modern saint who had a great devotion to the Eucharist is KARL LEISNER.Blessed Karl was born in 1915 in Bavaria, the first-born of a family of five. In his parents he saw the example of a real...
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BIRDS AND STRESS
We all know that spending time in nature is known to improve symptoms of anxiety and depression, and relieve a sense of isolation and loneliness. The exact reasons this phenomenon happens are unclear...
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HOLDING THE EUCHARIST IN IRAQ
As one of the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world, the Christians of Iraq with a culturally rich ecclesiastical heritage, have given the Church innumerable saints, many of whom are...
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MODERN SAINT OF VOCATIONS
Most religious orders are praying for vocations these days. Here is an order of nuns who found a young woman to intercede for them. Perhaps we all need to find our intercessor! SERVANT of GOD CLAIRE...
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NEW MEXICAN SAINT
Another saint who had a great devotion to the Eucharist, as well as a member of the Knights of Columbus, was LUIS BATIZ SAINZ. He was born in Mexico in 1870 and at the age of 12 he entered the...
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MONASTERY QUEEN - A RARE BREED
I often write of our dogs- I am a dog, not a cat person- but at present we have a cat that deserves mention. She is a rare NEBELUNG, who came to us from OrcasIslandwhen the owner was moving and...
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NAVAL SACRIFICE
FATHER ALOYSIUS H. SCHMITT was a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa, who served as a chaplain in the United States Navy at the beginning of World War II.He was born in St....
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JESUS, THE CENTER OF HIS LIFE
Another young man who is an example to our 21st C. youth is BL. ALBERTO MARVELLI, who was a member of the Catholic Action movement. He was noted for his defense of the poor and for selflessness during...
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A NEW SAINT- THE SMILING POPE
Tomorrow, Sept. 4, Pope Francis will beatify POPE JOHN PAUL I. He will be the fourth 20th-century pope to be beatified in the last dozen years. This pope, known as the “smiling pope,” served for just...
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