saints
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As the jubilee year of hope concludes, a new year is upon us, The Year of St. Francis. Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a special year coinciding with the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi. According to the decree, Pope Leo has established that from Jan. 10, following the closing of
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The saints are like our older brothers and sisters who’ve finished the race and are now cheering us on and praying that we too, will reach the finish line and enter Heaven. St. Teresa of Calcutta I have never really thought about the saints until I was preparing to fully enter the Catholic faith through
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I completed week three of “Magnify 90”, this week emphasized the virtue of gratitude and Saint Josephine Bakhita. Her feast day is February 8th in the Church. I didn’t know much about her, so I spent time reading about her life this week. What I learned about her was shocking. She was a saint who
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It is easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to love God in all things. St. Francis of Assisi This past summer, while I was in Italy, I visited the city of Assisi, the home of St. Francis of Assisi. Almost immediately upon entering this
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In a few days begins the Novena of St. Therese, the little flower. She has been an inspiration to me in her little way and her way of great love. Her feast day is October 1st. St. Therese’s family went on a pilgrimage to Rome in the jubilee year of 1887. Therese was 15 at
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Light is sweet! and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun. Ecclesiastes 11:7 The weather has been beautiful with abundant sunshine and warm temperatures. I spent some time sitting in the sun, enjoying the feeling of its warmth on my face. It reminds me of the saints in Heaven, who see God
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Jesus speaks of entering the narrow gate at Mass last weekend in the Gospel reading. The way is not easy, but we are not alone on the journey towards Him. In another place in scripture, He speaks of suffering in this life, of taking up our cross, but He also speaks of paradise and a
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I was fortunate to go on a pilgrimage last weekend to the Shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. I was there last fall, and was excited for a second trip there. I was blessed to journey with several Deacon wives while our husbands were at an assembly in the area. This was
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What constitutes a beautiful life? I believe beauty is all around us, we have to be aware of it. Beauty is not always what it seems, sometimes it is revealed later when looking back. It leads me to go deeper within myself, to see what is beyond the surface to get to the heart and
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