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Journey Back to God

March 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I remember when many household rituals included Saturday afternoon or evening confessions. But in today’s fast paced world perhaps we are not all able to participate in this rite weekly. The Sacrament of Penance, through which the reconciling love of God is made available to His people. Through genuine contrition, confession, penance and absolution, the believer is led to true conversion […]

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Saint of the Day

March 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment

March 15th, 2007
Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer (1820)
He is one of the four canonized saints of the Redemptorist Order. (The other three are: Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Saint Gerard Majella and Saint John Neumann.) Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer, in the midst of the aftermath of the Masonic French Revolution, gloriously and courageously preached the necessity […]

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“Listen, That You May Have Life “

March 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Our late Holy Father, John Paul II, talked so much about the culture of death.  Maybe it is the culture of death because we do not listen.  “Listen,” Jesus said, “that you may have life.”  “My Words are Spirit and Life.  This is why I’ve come:  that you may have life and have it in […]