“Some of you will be become priests”…

August 31, 2012 By 9 Comments
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... I can tell my son about the importance of prayer and lead by example all day long but my words and actions will never have the same deeply profound impact as it would coming from his father. The reality is his father was rabidly anti-Catholic and hasn't been around in eight years. It's been a hidden suspicion of mine that he'll view practicing his faith as womanly, since I'm his only example. And I can be a poor one at times. St. Monica I am not. I am always immensely grateful when … [Read more...]

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The Africa eBook Project…

May 29, 2012 By 4 Comments

In Cameroon, Africa, books are scarce--especially the good ones. Which means few Catholics have access to quality spiritual reading. Fr. Linus, who is studying at one of the Cameroon seminaries, explains: "One of the key problems the Church in Cameroon is facing, as in many parts of Africa, is that Christians do not read. And if they do, it's very thin. Most know very little about the Catholic faith and the situation is worst among the young people." But what if we could change that, … [Read more...]

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The Catholic Priesthood…

April 10, 2012 By 8 Comments

I do not pretend to believe that the US is eternal. Like all nations from our past, there will come a time this country will cease to exist. I believe we are upon that time. The only eternal organization that has survived the rise and fall of empires is the Catholic Church. She has endured and will continue to do so until the coming of Christ. America as we know it is swiftly changing into a tolatarian anti-religious country. We've learned nothing from countries destroyed by Socialism, … [Read more...]

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Friday Fishing…

November 18, 2011 By 8 Comments

Returning with an old favorite weekly feature, Friday Fishing, is this video of the Solemn Profession of Dominican Nuns, Sr. Yolanda Del Nino Jesus and Sr. Victoria de Nuestra a Senora del Rosario of the Monasterio de Santa Catalina de Sena in Cusco, Peru. Thank you, M. Snow, for sending me the beautiful video. Friday Fishing is a weekly feature promoting the religious life through imagery and video. Each week I feature a particular religious community and provide information about the order … [Read more...]

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is singleness a vocation…

November 4, 2011 By 14 Comments
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... I hear this question every now and then. I wonder, but highly doubt it. I'm not a consecrated single person so being single, in my opinion, is not a vocation. I just sort of ended up in this state through various life circumstances but I never actively sought to be single. I think most singles are like me in this aspect. When I think "vocation" I don't think of some transitory or temporary state, which I hope and pray my singleness is. So I ascertain that being an unconsecrated single … [Read more...]

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