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Happy Easter!
I heartily recommend A life worth living: one family embraces four children with Down syndrome, an interview with the mother of the family.
The piece is lengthy, but so beatiful. The generosity of her, her husband's, and her children's love is astounding. And she describes her children with Trisomy 21 so beautifully:
"Theirs is a full life. Theirs is a happy life. Theirs is a life worth living. They don't get depressed because they don't have what everyone else has. They don't worry about it. They are free. They just delight in what they have and they are willing to work for what they want. They don't worry about social cues, what they look like, or judging others based upon appearance—they love everyone unconditionally. They are confident that they are loved, and in that confidence they can love others. That is what we were created to do. That is real freedom. Theirs is a life of freedom."
God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez, Editor
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"The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name." - John Paul II
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| Good Tenants |
| Francis Cardinal Arinze, Meeting Jesus and Following Him |
| Every time we suffer a calamity in our spiritual life, we grow alarmed and think we have lost our way. |
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| He Saw the Cloths and Believed |
| Bishop Robert Barron, Word on Fire |
| The Gospel for Easter Sunday is from St. John's account of Easter morning (John 20:1–9). |
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| Rediscover the Ordinary This Spring |
| John Cuddeback, LifeCraft |
| I am convinced that our most significant response to the challenges of our age will be in the most ordinary practices. I do not say the obvious but the ordinary. |
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| An Exquisite Charity |
| Theology of Home |
| Surely we celebrate liturgy to honor God—to show Him that we love and adore Him with all the best that is in us: art, music, movement. But our God is a God who will not be outdone in generosity. He wants us to know that the Mass is not only our gift to Him, but His gift to us. |
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| A profile of the next Pope, writes Cardinal |
| New Daily Compass |
| Two years after the text signed 'Demos' (later revealed to have been written by Cardinal Pell) a new anonymous document, linked to the first, defines the seven priorities of the next Conclave to repair the confusion and crisis created by this Pontificate. |
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| Francis X. Maier: The Needs of the Vatican Tomorrow |
| First Things |
| "The Vatican Tomorrow" acknowledges the strengths of the Francis papacy noted elsewhere by others. It also argues, as do others, that the flaws of the current pontificate "are equally obvious" and serious, with damaging effect. |
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| Dead Synodality |
| The Catholic Thing |
| Sacrilege and synodality have come to the fore these last days. |
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| Liberated from Dhimmitude |
| First Things |
| Only the most perverse mind could describe the Israeli hostages of October 7 as "guests." The horrific images from and since that day, however, obscure subtler forms of captivity used by Hamas, which innocent outsiders might not comprehend. |
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| The Order of Judith: 'It's ok as a Christian woman to leave abuse' |
| The Pillar |
| Catholics and Christians are not exempt from intimate partner violence. But they can experience specific challenges in leaving abusive situations, like concerns about breaking marriage vows or the idea that God's will is to endure the suffering of mistreatment. |
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| In Defense of Affirmation |
| Splice Today |
| What is affirmation? What does affirmation do? Lack of affirmation is a serious problem in modern culture, and a more complex issue than people think. |
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