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Catholic Insights: February 2013
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013. Blog # 296 LENT - 3. Blog # 296 Lent - 3. Some of us 'old timers' will remember among the toys we used to play with were these: Lincoln logs, erector sets, and building blocks. You start with a big box of many pieces and put them together piece by piece until you build a bridge, a house, or a store. This year it occurred to me to reflect upon these experiences from long ago and apply my recollections to our celebration of Holy Week. What degree of commitment to it do I desir...
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Catholic Insights: February 2015
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. Blog # 451 Come to me. Blog # 451 Come to me. It seems to me that if we are to understand what. A person is doing we have to try to understand why. He or she is doing it. The goal. Of our actions gives them meaning. Why did Jesus come? Jesus frequently identifies himself as being. By the Father and always doing. The Word 'came' from Heaven and lived among us as one of us so that we might 'go' to Heaven living in Jesus! The supernatural gift that makes this possible we have ca...
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Catholic Insights: June 2013
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Sunday, June 30, 2013. Blog #306 The answer is love. Blog # 306 The answer is love. Even an unbeliever, can know and share historical human elements in the life of Jesus two thousand years ago from reading the account of it in the Bible and from the research of scholars about the historical conditions of Palestine when Jesus lived and died. Only a. In the words and actions of Jesus.(Jn 14: 9,10). Only for a believer is the Resurrected Jesus. In our world today. In the mystery of our faith. His only Son&#...
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Catholic Insights: March 2015
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Sunday, March 22, 2015. Blog 462 Gifts of God's Love. Blog # 462 Gifts of God's Love. Isaiah 35: 4ff we hear the Prophet telling the people of God's great power and love for them. There is no need to be afraid. God is with us! The blind will see, The deaf will hear. The lame run. Those who cannot speak will sing! Water is promised even in the desert. God's power is without limit. God' love is real. Others could heal the body in the name of God and in some instances (in their own minds) independently of G...
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Catholic Insights: April 2015
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. Blog # 476 Living as the Body of Christ. Blog # 476 Living as the Body of Christ. Before we forget, I thought it might be good to have a blog that would help us guarantee the benefits Lent offered us as a believing community. In the early Church Lent was a time for the intensive preparation of those getting ready for. Lent is a community experience in which the whole Church. To 'make up' for our individual sins. The emphasis seemed to be upon. Rather than an act. Since Vatican 1...
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Catholic Insights: December 2014
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Monday, December 29, 2014. Blog # 425 Connections. Blog # 425 Connections. Though the color of the vestments at Mass during Advent and Lent is the same, the flavor of the two seasons of the Church's Liturgical Year is different. A single word that can be used to express the flavor of. We are interested in seeking forgiveness and making up for our sins, setting things straight with God. Humility. Are the guiding lights of. A single word that can be used to express the flavor of. May not remember what I di...
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Catholic Insights: January 2015
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Saturday, January 31, 2015. Blog # 440 Creator of All. Blog # 440 Creator of All. Did you ever consider what the differences would be if you believed in more than one God? We sort of take the notion of God as Unique, Creator of All, Ever Present, All knowing, All Powerful, All Good, etc. for granted. There was a time in human history, however, when the notion of a single God would be like thinking the world was round at the time of Galileo. Exists, everything that exists is. That we are. This conside...
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Catholic Insights: August 2013
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Friday, August 23, 2013. Blog # 310 Resurrection in union with Jesus. Blog # 310 Resurrection in union with Jesus. The subject matter we have been treating in recent blogs is very important in helping us understand and carry out the task we have been called by Pope Benedict XVI to achieve in this Year of Faith. We are being called to a personal uniquely individual and community-wide Catholic revitalization. Jesus replied: "'You shall love. Than this: to lay down one's life for a friend.". For their God&#...
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Catholic Insights: April 2013
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Thursday, April 25, 2013. Blog # 298 Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord. Blog #298 Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord. Years ago when I was an altar boy the title of our liturgical celebration the Sunday before Eater as far as I can remember was always simply. Sunday. In the recently published official edition of the Mass texts it is given a more complete title which identifies it further by reference to the. Of the events of. It seems to me for many people the primary. Of course this experience ...
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