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Serving Catholics for 25 Years
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| Note from the Managing Editor |
This week, my note to you is short and sweet.
CERC has been bringing you the best of the internet for twenty-five years now. We ask for your help twice a year, during Advent and Lent.
So far, we have received only a handful of donations. This Advent, and especially today — Giving Tuesday — please consider making a donation to help keep us going till Lent.
Click here to donate. Your gift is tax deductible in both Canada and the US. We will be praying in thanksgiving for your generosity.
God bless you all this first week of the liturgical year! - Meaghen Gonzalez
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"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had absolutely no other place to go." - Abraham Lincoln
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| Our Fear of the Real |
| Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing |
| We are dull, we are profane. We are holiness-blind; we see in secular gray. |
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| Remember the Ember Days? (Part 1 and 2) |
| Peter Day-Milne, Adoremus Bulletin |
| For most of human history, men have structured their lives around the natural seasons and the demands of food production... |
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| The US bishops' statement: an invitation to disobedience |
| Catholic Culture |
| After voting almost unanimously to approve a long-awaited statement on the Eucharist yesterday, the members of the USCCB gave themselves a hearty round of applause. I wonder if they noticed that not many other Catholics are clapping. |
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| The Saints on Healing Through Grief |
| Catholic Exchange |
| If you're grieving the loss of a loved one and you know that no one can take that person's place, there are few words that can truly console you. |
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| The Five Week Advent |
| NLM |
| The most ancient liturgical books of the Roman Rite attest that the Roman Advent was originally five weeks long, rather than four. |
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| Miscarriage in the Shadow of Abortion |
| Public Discourse |
| The most foundational evidence for the value of the human person is the child in the womb, whose life creates beauty and obligations, possessing all the hope of humanity. When life in the womb has an ambiguous civil, social, and legal status, how can the fabric of our civilization hold together? The unborn child is the most singular affirmation we possess that our existence is not pointless. |
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