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Bowl Eligible
I love this season of the year. I love the crispness in the air and the colors of the leaves changing. While I don’t like the shortening of our days, I like how nature is telling us that time and change stop for no one...
Deacon Gregory Webster
Heavenly Admission
For the Jews, 2000 years ago, there were 613 precepts of the law, some bigger, more important than others considered less important; of these precepts about half were given as positive commands and the other half as...
William Borst
Reaching Our Eternal Goal
Once there was a woman—let’s call her Mabel—who decided to walk the famous Camino, the pilgrimage route that ends at the tomb of the Apostle St. James, at the church of Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. Every...
A Heavenly Dreamscape
During another drought of inspiration, I searched through my essays that were never submitted for publication. During this search, I stumbled on an essay I had called Heaven on My Mind. I wrote it, probably after...
Deacon Kurt Godfryd
Our Sister, Bodily Death
“Praised may You be, my Lord, through our Sister, Bodily Death, from whom no living man can escape.” These inspiring lyrics may be found in the famous Canticle of the Sun composed by St. Francis of Assissi (+1226)...
Paul Suski
Her Name was Maria
Once I read a saying that really encapsulates what I would like to say: Life is full of surprises. Embrace the unexpected and find the joy in every moment. This has been the experience I went through when my...
Fr Mario Attard OFM Cap
The Womb of My Catholic Imagination
The imagination is the eye of the soul. –Joseph Joubert I think Catholic writers have a distinct advantage over atheists or people of other faiths. This is true because the Catholic Church has a 2000-year history that...
Heaven’s Nursery
Know any good jokes? Any good Catholic jokes? There is something distinctively Catholic about comedy, good humor and story telling. The 14th century Italian poet, Dante Alighieri, referred to the nine circles of Hell in...
Deacon Donald Cox
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Every Day We Are Given Opportunities to Make a Difference
Temple University in Philadelphia is the third largest university in Pennsylvania; it enjoys a worldwide reputation for research, scholarship, and education, and has international campuses in Tokyo and...
Things Aren’t Always as They Seem
A woman named Sarina was leaving her hotel when suddenly her left arm no longer worked; she dropped her purse, her arm went numb, and she was convinced she was having a stroke, or apoplexy. A stranger helped...
The Owner of Our Hearts
Distressed and feeling powerless before evils of many kinds, we quickly forget that God our Father has full knowledge of our situation and of our spontaneous reaction to evil. We can begin with some most comforting...
One Nation Under God
Having just celebrated our country’s 250th anniversary of independence, it is noteworthy that America was intentionally founded as “one nation under God,” and most of our founding fathers publicly acknowledged His...
Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
The Right Path
This parable of the Sower contrasts our many human limits with God’s love-driven boundlessness and infinitude. Due to our physical, emotional, intellectual, psychological limits and to the restricted resources...
Who Am I— in Christ?
Oh, St. Anthony look around; something is lost and cannot be found. Or is it ‘someone’ is lost? Ever think about where you fit in a sociological sense or belong within the body of Christ? What role do we play in the...
The Lord is Calling Each of Us
One summer morning a farmer named Ned was helping his neighbor Willy build a new fence, but the work was going slowly. Finally, Ned deliberately dropped a fence post in a muddy puddle of water, splattering both men with...
Liturgical Participation Trophies
I became Catholic in 1996 and discovered the Latin Mass in 2008. That year I read many essays on the differences between the traditional Mass and the Novus Ordo. I remember how many of the Novus Ordo apologists talked...
Jennifer Borek
