If your father and mother, your sister and brother, if the very cat and dog in the house, are not happier for your being Christian, it is a question whether you really are. James Hudson Taylor The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. It is good […]
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Temptation succeeds best in corrupting the over-zealous Christian or the underachieving Christian. It has far less success with the Christian who maintains a simple, practical, and even-tempered faith. Harvey F. Egan Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins. Proverbs 10:12 The New King James Version Each of us is a mixture of dust […]
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Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
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Saint Angela of Foligno was a wife and mother who had little interest in the spiritual life until about age 40. After her husband and children died, Angela entered the Secular Franciscans, spending the rest of her life in prayer and service.
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Glorious Prince of the heavenly hosts
and victor over rebellious spirits,
be mindful of me who am so weak and sinful
and yet so prone to pride and ambition.
Lend me, I pray,
thy powerful aid in every temptation and difficulty,
and above all do not forsake me
in my last struggle with the powers of evil.
Amen.
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In 1935, Albert Einstein and His postdoc Nathan Rosen found a hypothical mathematical spacetime structure that bridges between two separate regions of space, potentially allowing a shortcut between these regions. Travel through the throat could be much faster than travel in the familiar external spacetime that connects them. This is an example of a general class of spacetime structures with two mouths connected by a throat, known as `wormholes.’ In 1962, Robert Fuller and John Wheeler demonstrated that the Einstein-Rosen wormhole is unstable and would pinch off before any particle traverses it. Subsequently, Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne and collaborators showed…
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Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, the first canonized Filipino martyr, became a witness to the faith almost by accident. Fleeing a legal charge, he ended up with a group of Dominicans headed for Japan, where they were all arrested, tortured, and finally executed.
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A member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, Saint Rose of Lima lived a life of penance and devotion to the poor at home under the disapproving eyes of her parents.
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Whatever happened on Mount Tabor within the hearts of Peter, James and John, we will never know. The experience was more than words can describe. But certainly, the three Apostles had an experience of the glory of Jesus, the Son of God.
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First reading from the Book of Exodus Ex 16:2-4, 12-15
The whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “Would that we…
But even if you should suffer for doing what is right, how happy you are! Do not be afraid of anyone, and do not worry.
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