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The Heart of Giving

When we recognize that all we have in life is a gift from God, we are moved to give back to Him who blessed us. God, through our parents, gave us life. He also gave us all of our talents expecting us to use those talents not only for ourselves, but to benefit others. Whether […]

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The Purification of Purgatory

All of us were born to share in God’s love. We share in God’s love fully when we make it to Heaven, a destination we reach by following Jesus. The road to Heaven isn’t an easy one that we can just coast down, but it requires constant and deliberate course correction when we inevitably stray […]

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Jesus, Have Pity on Me

Life can be a good experience for some, but others face more hardships. Recently, hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated many people. You just need to watch the news to see houses floating down rivers and flood waters pouring into homes. Severe weather is only one way life can hit hard. Others deal with a wide […]

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Spiritual

The Tribulation and the End

With everything going on in the world, many people are saying we are close to the great tribulation and end times. We are in a huge pandemic that has killed over 5 million people worldwide so far. In addition to physical death and illness, this pandemic has divided families and friends, and even affected the […]

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Spiritual

No Rest for the Weary on the Road to Heaven

Mom, John keeps copying me. No Mom, Joseph is copying me. Stop it! No you stop it! You’re mean! No you’re mean! AHHH! If you have little kids you can relate to this kind of dialogue. My wife and I spend every day trying to do the best we can to raise our kids to […]

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Do You Not Yet Have Faith?

It’s easy to think Jesus has been asleep at the wheel with everything bad happening in the world, especially in the past year. We want to say to Him, “Don’t you care that we are perishing?”. Jesus does care and wants us to trust in Him. A good parent disciplines their children when they go […]

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Eloi, Eloi, Lema Sabachthani

Many times we have cried out, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”. We do our best to be good and do what is right and we still fall flat on our face. Does God even care? Am I disappointing Him somehow? God never promised us that there would never be any pain […]