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Grace and goodness

Friday, 19 October 2012 00:00

It’s all good.”

I remember when that phrase became popular several years ago. What a deception, I would think to myself, when I heard someone say it. Certainly, there are many things in life that are not good.

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‘Let the children come to me’

Friday, 12 October 2012 14:26

I took my first graders on a tour of our parish church the other day. This outing is a favorite pilgrimage of mine, one which I usually take with my students in the fall. Often, one of the parish priests joins us to give the students a more detailed tour, including the sacristy, the priest's vestments and the confessionals.

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Parish Family Living Rosary: Offering ‘a taste of holiness’

Friday, 12 October 2012 14:21

It began on Oct. 13, 2007 when Jean Floro and her companions formed a youth-led Living Rosary at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Clovis, in the Diocese of Fresno.

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Willpower alone is not enough

Friday, 05 October 2012 00:00

John Shea once wrote a haunting poem about John the Baptist. The poem begins with the Baptist in prison, hearing the dancing above his head and knowing that this is soon to culminate in his being beheaded.

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Laughter as faith

Friday, 28 September 2012 14:20

In our novitiate, when I was a novice with the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, our assistant novice director, a sincere but overly-stern man, cautioned us about too much levity in our lives by telling us that there is no recorded incident in scripture of Jesus ever laughing.

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Papal intentions for May: That administrators of justice may act always with integrity and right conscience; That seminaries, especially those of mission churches, may form pastors after the Heart of Christ, fully dedicated to proclaiming the Gospel.