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How bad can a birthday be when: You get to start the day by presiding at Mass? The daily Mass crowd offers a prayer for you in the Prayers of the Faithful and sings “Happy Birthday” to you at the … Continued
“For the love of Christ impels us…” (2 Cor. 5:14) | father.mulcahy.net
How bad can a birthday be when: You get to start the day by presiding at Mass? The daily Mass crowd offers a prayer for you in the Prayers of the Faithful and sings “Happy Birthday” to you at the … Continued
Today's readings It seems to me that the readings this morning are pretty direct, aren't they? Isaiah makes it clear that if we pretend to worship God, no matter how beautiful our Liturgy may be, but forget about God as … Continued
Today's readings One of my professors in seminary would often tell us that, because we had made a commitment to follow God's call, the devil would do everything possible to get us to change our mind. One of the devil's … Continued
Today's readings | Saint of the Day Saint Bonaventure was born in central Italy in 1221. As a boy, he was cured of a serious illness through the prayers of St. Francis. St. Francis was an inspiration to Bonaventure and … Continued
Today’s Readings | Saint of the Day Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 to a Christian Algonquin woman. Her parents died in a smallpox epidemic – which left Kateri herself disfigured and half blind – when she was four years … Continued
You should literally read this immediately. Go ahead, I’ll wait. This literally drove me nuts when I was working in the corporate world. I wish every mid-level manager would literally read this and then literally send me a quarter everytime … Continued
Today's readings Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give. There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but there is free grace. And today Jesus reminds us that free grace is exactly what we … Continued
I would be remiss if I did not observe with great fondness this feast of St. Benedict, abbot, and father of western monasticism. My Benedictine roots stem from my college days at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL (then called Illinois … Continued
Today's readings The Lord is gracious and merciful. Recently, I was reading a commentary on preaching that encouraged preachers to preach once in a while on other readings beside the Gospel. The Gospel's almost always the most obvious choice, and … Continued
Today's readings The story goes that one day, St. Theresa of Avila was wheeling a cart across a bridge over the river. At one point along the bridge's passage, a wheel of the cart got stuck in the planks, and … Continued
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