Do you find yourself getting distracted during mental prayer? Does your mind wander? Do you ever have a problem that you wish you could just vent to someone but it is too personal to share? Perhaps you are just yearning to develop your relationship with God but you find it difficult to make time […]
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Tuesday 1st September is the World day of prayer for the Care of Creation. Here are a few suggestions for you and your family to mark this important day. Attend mass. Start reading Laudato Si’. Share an inspirational paragraph of Laudato Si to a friend. Gather together with family to praise God for his
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In most cases, to pass on the faith to others we need to show them our Joy. Our love of Christ in our words and actions, so they may be inspired. Intrigued as to what is the source of our light? In a similar way we can do this for our children but we
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Online recently, the question was posed as to why people, in general, are Catholic. I could answer this in a myriad of different ways, but I think the reasons that I am Catholic and desire to remain so are as follows: I am Catholic because it is gives my life direction and purpose. There are
I’m thinking about hanging a sign out the front of our house that reads: ‘The Shaw Infirmary’. I kid you not. Since just prior to Lent my family have endured two gastro bugs, two colds, sinus infections, worms and allergy flare ups. Between the six of us there has been at least one
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I recently contravened the rules of a Facebook group. I posted an advert for a family member who was trying to sell some kittens. I had no idea that the content of my post broke the rules set down by admin. Now these rules were a technicality but they were rules none the less.
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Theology of the Body is the title of a series of audiences, presented by the late Pope John Paul II, that focus on the human body and sexuality, relationships and calls to the married and celibate life. John Paul II started giving these audiences on September 5, 1979 and finished them on November 28,
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In May 2009, Fr Alberto Cutie, a Catholic priest from Miami, was photographed on a local beach with an unidentified woman, who turned out to be his girlfriend of two years. Fr Cutie, who is well known in the United States for his television show and best-selling book ‘Real Life, Real Love,’ was torn
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‘Look Mum, look!’ cried Miss 4 animatedly, ‘there’s baby snails in the tulip!’ I rolled my eyes skyward and made a mental note to spray the garden for slugs and snails. In the meantime Miss 4 had been joined by Miss 2 and they oohed and ahhed over the ‘cute’ baby snails, campaigning to
Through the four original experiences (including Original Sin) we learn something important about our bodies: Original solitude tells us that our bodies are symbolic; we have a body, like the animals, but are relational like God. The visible and invisible are united in us. Our bodies symbolise something beyond us; they point to God.
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