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    St. Bernard’s 3 tips to get wisdom (one will surprise you)

    This article is a good one in one sense, but not as helpful as it could have been. The author's last sentence is "So if we would be wise, don’t start with an academic book. Start with prayer and love." The fundamental problem with the author's "three tips" then, is how does one start with...
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    Why Is “Christian” Music So Awful?

    Dear Friend, I believe there is, in music, much more than you have recognized here. The best analysis I have read so far, which begins to frame for us an understanding I believe to be needed of the truly mysterious place music has in our spiritual lives - lives which have natural dimensions...
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    Study: 9 in 10 cradle Catholics leaving the Church; experts urge stronger faith community

    Yes the Faith needs to be taught. But. We have few true witnesses to the True Faith, but many whose words and lives are a mixture, and such is what they teach: a mixture of world and faith. The Church presents to the world a life of compromise, when Jesus taught and lived and His Spirit...
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    Either Love the World or Love the Lord

    It seems many Catholics believe they are free not to choose. They believe they can live in this world very nicely, while not ever offending God too much. They do have the confessional, after all, for that so-called "grave" stuff and we Catholics can get assured of absolution very nicely...
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    Expose of post Vatican II liturgical meanderings

    chevy, are you familiar with Fr. Charles Murr and any of his writings or reflections or current thoughts on Vatican II? He is one who has reported on this matter much, for a long time now. If not, a good place to start might be this interview in Inside the Vatican magazine. Satan has been...
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    Expose of post Vatican II liturgical meanderings

    Michie, your signature seems appropriate at this point: "Holiness does not consist in never having erred or sinned. Holiness increases the capacity for conversion, for repentance, for willingness to start again and, especially, for reconciliation and forgiveness. -Benedict XVI " Are we not now...
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    Study: 9 in 10 cradle Catholics leaving the Church; experts urge stronger faith community

    Wonderful. True fellowship in the Faith is most beautiful to see, and belong to.
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    Study: 9 in 10 cradle Catholics leaving the Church; experts urge stronger faith community

    "Smart" phones habitually lie to us, coldly. It is a cold, cold, deceitful lifeless addictive - not embraced - medium. Words of sobriety seem guilty to me by association, in that world. "Put them down! Listen to me for a moment!! Those having ears to hear, hear!" Your Creator, your...
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    Study: 9 in 10 cradle Catholics leaving the Church; experts urge stronger faith community

    "Almost"? That is a telling word in this context. Are the people aware of, and in, and remaining in, the Sacred Meal just completed? Or is it "Mass is over, let's all get back to the world"? Or is the purpose to provide the best of all for everyone? In the parish I attend for Mass...
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    Study: 9 in 10 cradle Catholics leaving the Church; experts urge stronger faith community

    The Apostle John learned that of seven churches to which he was sent to deliver messages, five were called to repent; their works were inadequate. One was encouraged to persevere the trials that would only increase for them; one was commended and encouraged to hold fast, keep faithful, endure...
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    Why Is “Christian” Music So Awful?

    I referred to, and recommend, the book The Ordinary Path to Holiness (3rd Ed.) (This link is to the author's website, to the page in which he briefly describes the book.) The book is sold through Amazon, (this link is to that Amazon site.) I feel awkward referring this book, since I know the...
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    Why Is “Christian” Music So Awful?

    Hello FaithT. I have known too many souls - men and women - who have experienced the strange, bewildering at times, sufferings of having what becomes a contradiction in the soul: a marriage which is a union, yet has a great separation within it. Forgive me for speaking of this if you are not...
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    Why Is “Christian” Music So Awful?

    Yes it is refreshing - like sharing in the thirst for, and communion in, the cool Living Water in an oasis in the midst of the desert. It is those things, and the Lord delights to see it. I do understand. The beginning of a share in the seven-fold Gifts of the Holy Spirit (Isa 11:2-3; CCC...
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    Why Is “Christian” Music So Awful?

    Thank you for your thoughts and observations on these things. Two years ago, a small Bible Study group in my parish began a Study/prayer/listening to the Book of Revelations. The Lord blessed that Study then, which He contuse to bless today with insights, entrustments, warnings, affirmations...
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    Why Is “Christian” Music So Awful?

    You and I have a moment in common, it seems, the moment being grace, the grace of God that changed everything. Catechism 1997: Grace is a participation in the life of God. It introduces us into the intimacy of Trinitarian life.... The first experienced encounter with grace - the first...
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