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Book Review: Gifts of the Visitation
The Visitation refers to the time when Mary, receiving the news from the angel Gabriel that she was going to…
Yearly Archives: 2015
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St. John Climacus
JOHN made, while still young, such progress in learning that he was called the Scholastic. At the age of sixteen…
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Sts. Jonas, Barachisius, and their Companions, Martyrs
KING SAPOR, of Persia, in the eighteenth year of his reign, raised a bloody persecution against the Christians, and laid…
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Palm Sunday
Lessons without end, at once lofty and hallowing, might be deduced from the triumphant entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem,…
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Palm/Passion Sunday
We now come to the Sunday with a split personality. It starts with an upbeat gospel recounting Jesus’ triumphal entry…
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St. Gontran, King
ST. GONTRAN was the King of Burgundy (present day east-central France) from 561 to 593. Gontran was the second surviving…
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General Assembly Votes in Favor of Gay Marriage?
In an animated and unusually packed budget meeting this week, UN member states gave the go ahead to special benefits…
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St. John of Egypt
TILL he was twenty-five, John worked as a carpenter with his father. Then feeling a call from God, he left…
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Lamenting Loss of Family-Owned Grocery
The old grocery store in my neighborhood is closing next month. Boy, does that make me sad. The family-owned store…
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Empty Houses
Home is where… no one is. That seems to be the modern trend. City dwellers lead hectic lives, our suburbs…