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For the Poor
I want a Church that is poor and for the poor. People with nothing have so much to teach us. In their difficulties they experience the suffering Christ. Scripture Though he was rich, our Lord Jesus Christ became poor for your sakes, so that through his poverty you might become rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9 Prayer […]
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Mary is Our Guide
Mary, Virgin and Mother; help us to bear radiant witness to generous faith, justice, and love of the poor; that the joy of the gospel may reach the ends of the earth. Scripture I am the Handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to your word. Luke 1:38 Prayer Just as Pope […]
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Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?
How can God be good, but allow bad things to happen? Fr. Mike Schmitz tackles one of the toughest questions religious believers must answer.
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Can You Prove That God Exists?
Read and respond to Can You Prove That God Exists? by Peter Kreeft. Write a post in your iblog in which you demonstrate an understanding of the main point(s), relates an idea(s) from the reading to another text(s), offer your own arguments – agreeing or disagreeing with the points in the reading – with supporting evidence. […]
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Can we be good without God?
Read and respond to Can we be good without God? by J. Budziszewski. Write a post in your iblog in which you demonstrate an understanding of the main point(s), relates an idea(s) from the reading to another text(s), offer your own arguments – agreeing or disagreeing with the points in the reading – with supporting evidence. […]
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Be Alive
Theme 1: How do I look? Outcomes Students will value the sacredness of the human body, regardless of appearance identify ways that we can co-operate with God in car- ing for our bodies express ways in which the Incarnation shows the sacredness of the human body respect physical change as integral to God’s creation of us […]
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The Sacramentality of the Present Moment
Read Mark 13:33-37 What if every moment were one in which we might meet our God? What might we notice? How might we act? Extra: Jean Pierre de Caussade invites us into what he calls “the sacramentality of the present moment.” What other bits of wisdom can you discern from his book Abandonment; OR, […]
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No One Can Serve Two Masters
Read Matthew 6:24-34. In this Gospel reading, before Jesus tells his listeners not to worry, he says “No one can serve two masters.” Who is Jesus refering to? One master is God(Love), surely, but who is the other? Could Jesus be refering to more specific “evils” – evils that cause us to worry and make […]
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We are all one
All living species are tied together in one greaat, interdependent network. The smallest subatomic particles are joined together in a cosmic dance, and evey living thing has evolved together on this world. There is no aspect of this amazing creation – chemical, biological, or material – thatis not interconnected. Pope Francis says that our failure […]
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Catch People
Read Luke 5:1-11 http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=322900027 The lake of Gennesaret was also known as the Sea of Galilee or the Sea of Tiberias. It was the scene of many of Jesus’ actions (such as preaching from a boat to the people on shore, the miracle of calming the stormy seas, and the miracle of the loaves and […]