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| Note from the Managing Editor |
As we enter Holy Week, I highly recommend reading Michael Pakaluk's "The Four Deaths."
He writes, "It's open to us to flee from the meaning of our baptism, or to live a perpetual adolescence, or to interpret marriage (à la Justice Kennedy) as perpetual dating."
Or we can die to sin in Baptism and die to self in embracing a vocation that demands "a sincere gift" of oneself (marriage or the religious life) and then again in welcoming children. "None of these three deaths is strictly necessary. … But neither was redeeming the world strictly necessary."
Then we have another beautiful meditation on the Prodigal Son, "Coming to Yourself" by John Cuddeback — especially helpful for those of us pondering how to love someone who has forgotten who they are as a son or daughter of God.
"Sometimes we have the duty, nay the privilege, of remembering for a loved one something that he does not remember. … There is always room to return to ourselves. And when we do, we might just discover that someone is coming to meet us. And he's running."
Please note, we will not be sending out an e-letter on April 20th, but will resume on April 27th. A blessed Holy Week to you all! - Meaghen Gonzalez
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"The tempter, ever on the watch, wages war most violently against those whom he sees most careful to avoid sin." - Pope Saint Leo the Great
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| The Priest and the Eucharist |
| Pope Benedict XVI, Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today |
| What is priestly ordination, really, and what is the priesthood into which it initiates? |
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| The Four Deaths |
| Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing |
| All of us face multiple "deaths," even before we depart this life, and we'll do better if we willingly embrace them. |
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| Coming to Yourself |
| John Cuddeback, LifeCraft |
| "I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says..." - Socrates, in Plato's Phaedrus |
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| Jesus Christ Is Our True King and Priest |
| Janet E. Smith, NC Register |
| "Christ as our Redeemer purchased the Church at the price of his own blood; as priest he offered himself, and continues to offer himself as a victim for our sins. |
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| Gratitude |
| Donald DeMarco, Lay Witness |
| There can be no happiness without gratitude. |
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| Burning the Churches |
| David Warren, The Catholic Thing |
| Perhaps I have imagined that the Catholic Church in Canada is suffering from a death wish. |
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| Traditionalist Communities Are Cautiously Optimistic After FSSP News |
| NC Register |
| In a Feb. 21 publication, the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) wrote that Pope Francis had met with two members of the society of apostolic life about a week before he promulgated the decree detailing their continued permission to celebrate Mass with the pre-Vatican II 1962 missal. |
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| Life is diverse — so what? |
| The Critic |
| A new school of biological thinking runs counter to fundamental scientific truths and functions. |
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| Tell your children their birth story |
| Dappled Things |
| Every year on February 6th, after I blew out the candles on my birthday cake, my Dad gushed. He gushed! I began to anticipate this miracle about as much as my presents. |
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| The Alternative to Road Rage |
| Catholic Stand |
| All drivers make some sort of mistake at some point. How do we react to the souls driving the cars? |
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