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Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin, Doctor of the Church
Saint Catherine was born at Siena, in the region of Tuscany in Italy. When she was six years old, Jesus appeared to Catherine and blessed her. As many parents do for their children, her mother and father wanted her to be happily married, preferably to a rich man. But Catherine wanted to be a nun.…
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The Fourth Sunday in Easter
Today’s readings What would you give for just five minutes of peace and quiet? We are all probably sadly familiar with the many loud distractions our world puts before us. And we’ve become quite conditioned to accepting it, even needing it on some primitive level, I think. How often do we get out of bed…
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Friday of the Third Week in Easter
Today’s readings Saul is proof that God’s ways are not our ways. How is it that God would pick for one of his chief Apostles a man who imprisoned and murdered the followers of the Christian Way? That had to surprise even, and perhaps especially Saul, whose life was turned completely upside-down. Poor Ananias had…
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Thursday in the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings In the spiritual realm, there aren’t coincidences. God puts us where we need to be, when we need to be there. That’s the work of the Holy Spirit. We see that played out in today’s first reading. Here, an angel directs the Apostle Saint Philip to be on a road at the very…
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Wednesday in the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings As Catholics, we believe that opposite things don’t necessarily cancel each other out. Two things can be true at the same time. For instance, we believe, as our first reading today illustrates, that we can have joy in the midst of sorrow. This is an especially poignant tenet of Catholic thinking. It helps…
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Tuesday in the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings At our core, we all want peace and security in our lives. We don’t want rough waters, or pain, or discord in our families, and that’s all understandable. Certainly we have more than enough of those things with all the political uncertainty at home, and the uncerainty of war abroad these days. I…
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Monday in the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings So they drag Saint Stephen before the Sanhedrin, and make all sorts of false claims against him. If this sounds familiar, it’s because we heard a story just like this during Holy Week! In fact, Stephen is in good company. He is brought to the same place where his Lord Jesus, and later…
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The Third Sunday in Easter
Today’s readings How often have you said something that began with “I’ll be happy when…”? You know, “I’ll be happy when I’m done paying for the kids’ college tuition;” “I’ll be happy when I get that promotion;” “I’ll be happy when I lose that last ten pounds;” “I’ll be happy when I can afford that…
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Thursday in the Second Week of Easter
Today’s readings Once again, the disciples are overjoyed that they had been found worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the Name. That seems rather counter-intuitive, but when you stop to think about it, given all the possible reasons to suffer dishonor and to be beaten, the best reason is “for the sake of…
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