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Learning Asceticism from the Desert Fathers and Mothers

Posted on March 15, 2021March 11, 2024 by FRESHImage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oksD-v8-JWI Welcome to another installment of FRESHImage Presents! We’re at the midway point of the Lenten Season, and if we’ve really decided to challenge ourselves this Lent to grow in holiness and ...
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Perpetua & Felicity: Striving for Eternal Happiness

Posted on March 7, 2021October 31, 2021 by Tony Crescio

The desire for happiness is a universal human experience. From of old philosophers have constructed their theories of what it means to live a good life based on this self-evident truth and have sought to articulate for the human family the path ...
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We Dare to Say: The Lord’s Prayer as Penitential Practice

Posted on March 3, 2021February 26, 2024 by Tony Crescio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRv_6c3SGbo Welcome to FRESHImage Presents! Have you ever felt like you were just rattling off the words of the Lord’s Prayer and not really praying them? I know I have! We all have, we all get distracted...
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Polycarp: A Patron Saint for Lent

Posted on February 23, 2021February 18, 2023 by Tony Crescio

February 23rd Today the Church commemorates one of the most acclaimed figures of its early life, St. Polycarp, bishop and martyr. The greatness of Polycarp’s reputation is really astounding when one considers how little we know of his life. H...
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Ash Wednesday: The Price of Becoming Combustible

Posted on February 15, 2021March 27, 2023 by FRESHImage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DZnbsT1Ydg In this edition of FRESHImage Presents, Tony reflects on the meaning of the ashes we receive at the beginning of Lent this Ash Wednesday. These ashes have an important message for us as we be...
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The Hopeful Message of Ash Wednesday

Posted on February 15, 2021March 1, 2022 by Tony Crescio

The Lenten Season begins tomorrow with the celebration of Ash Wednesday. And, while there is, to be sure, a certain solemnness to this celebration, it is worth considering at the outset of this season of repentance, the hopeful message it holds ...
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Learning to be Alone

Posted on February 4, 2021November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

The truest solitude is not something outside you, not an absence of men or of sound around you; it is an abyss opening up in the center of your own soul. (New Seeds, 80) In Ch. 11 of New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton offers a ri...
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The Luminous Mysteries

Posted on January 20, 2021October 12, 2021 by FRESHImage

The following are slide shows that contain the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary for your use. They are intended as educational tools as well as prayer aids, and could be used as part of your personal devotion, in a religious education setting, o...
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The Sorrowful Mysteries

Posted on January 20, 2021October 12, 2021 by FRESHImage

The following are slide shows that contain the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary for your use. They are intended as educational tools as well as prayer aids, and could be used as part of your personal devotion, in a religious education setting, ...
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The Joyful Mysteries

Posted on January 20, 2021October 12, 2021 by FRESHImage

The following are slide shows that contain the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary for your use. They are intended as educational tools as well as prayer aids, and could be used as part of your personal devotion, in a religious education setting, or,...
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