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St. Alphonsus Liguori: Living in Friendship with God-Pt. 1

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Last year, hoping to fill in a gap in current research, a group of psychologists from Columbia University and Michigan State University, sought to investigate the “cultural moderators of the link between friendship and important outcomes” (Peiqi...
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St. Ignatius of Loyola & Eucharistic Freedom

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbNqoXD7bhI Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all that I have and possess. Thou hast given all to me. To Thee, O Lord, I return it. All is Thine, dis...
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St. Ignatius of Loyola: A Theo-Dramatic Life

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All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts… Shakespeare, Monologue of Jaques, As You Like It, act 2, scene 7.139-142 These...
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Remembering Justice

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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Cycle C Justice. Social Justice. Terms that have exponentially grown in popularity and that we hear much about in our world today. Over the past year there have been many campaigns taken up by various groups...
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True Freedom and the Beautiful Life

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On July 4th, our country once again celebrates the day of our independence. Independence Day is rightly commemorated because of the victory won for human dignity, as freedom was gained for a people to live life according to the dictates of consc...
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Feed Them Yourselves

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Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi, 2022 "Give them some food yourselves" (Luke 9:13). Can you imagine the looks on the Apostles' faces when Our Lord said these words to them? Here they were, twelve men wh...
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St. Anthony of Padua: Finding Human Dignity-Pt. 2

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As we saw at the end of the first part of this reflection, over the course of the first part of his life, Anthony (born Fernando), had gone from being a wealthy and well-known elite to the obscurity of monastic life in the hills of Tuscany. In p...
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St. Anthony of Padua: Finding Human Dignity-Pt. 1

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Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, Doctor, June 13 Tony, Tony, look around, something’s lost and must be found! Growing up in a Catholic home, this was something I heard my mother pray, as we scrambled about the house to track down items we ha...
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Mary: Mother of All Alive in Christ

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Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church Happy Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church to you! Today’s celebration of the Memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church is a relatively new one. The celebration wa...
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Pentecost: Restoring Unity in Diversity

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Pentecost Sunday My dear friends in Christ, Today’s celebration of Pentecost marks the culmination of the Church’s celebration of the Easter Season. The celebration begun at the Easter Vigil now finds its completion in the descent of the H...
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