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December 9, 2020 |
Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:
Happy Feasts of the Immaculate Conception and St. Juan Diego! It is the second week of our Advent Appeal: please click here to donate today. Back when I attended Ave Maria University — as a foreign student with no trust fund — I was expected to have a summer job. As I counted down the days of my first spring semester, my anxiety steadily increased. None of my job applications had panned out and I felt I had to have work lined up before my feet touched Canadian soil. I badgered my mom, my dad, my friends to put out feelers. My sister, who was in high school at the time (but still expected to work over the summer), seemed like the proverbial grasshopper, blithely finishing her studies and confident that something would fall into her lap. I looked askance at her free-spiritedness. I may even have scoffed. Due to my incessant needling, I was able to secure a job in my dad's office before my plane left the ground in Fort Myers. The job was in the engineering department (i.e. the basement) and involved important record preservation (i.e. scanning and filing boxes and boxes of dusty old blueprints). About a week later, an assistant to a department manager left suddenly and the company was scrambling to find a replacement. Enter my teenaged sister. She worked on the top floor in a private cubicle, and she may have had her own Keurig. That summer taught me an important lesson. While it was a good thing to work hard for what I wanted, I had to trust that God had good things in store for me — and that by prioritizing my own desires for security and surety, I might trade the best things for the better or the good. Trust is not easy, but it is the whole call of our Christian life: to give ourselves wholly and completely to God. Here at CERC, we are putting our trust in God to provide for the coming year's expenses. Donating is also a concrete way to exercise your trust: just as God has entrusted you with money, you are re-entrusting it to Him to do His work. And we aim to do God's work here at CERC. One aspect of our mission is to increase the public's awareness of the range of contributions the Catholic Church has made and continues to make in the world. Just look at the wealth in newsletter links below. If you find even one article that opens your eyes to the treasures of our faith, please click here to donate today. God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez |
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Editorials of Interest Doing some real Advent spiritual work - CWR
We all ought to identify those actions and attitudes in us that rouse God's anger. Forgiven and Free: Advent and Confession - CWR
The Sacrament of Penance is especially important as a way to bring order into our hearts and souls during this often bewildering year of 2020, when chaos seems to reign in the world around us. Archbishop Cordileone: New COVID church closures violate right to worship - CWR
Worship is both a natural and a Constitutional right. My people want to receive the Body and Blood of Christ; they need it, and have every right to be free to do so," the archbishop said in a November 28 statement. A Thanksgiving present for American believers - Mercatornet
The US Supreme Court has ruled that severe Covid-19 restrictions on places of worship are a violation of religious freedom. A Crisis of Creches - Crisis Magazine
Today, religious art is the subject of an almost universal indifference. It's no great task to see why. Doctors of Providence - First Things
Unless we recover the true Julian of Norwich, we will miss her unique spiritual insight into the place of sin in the providential ordering of the universe. The First Society - Plough
Scott Hahn on the Sacrament of Matrimony and the restoration of the social order. Seventy-Five Years Ago in Silesia - First Things
Seventy-five years ago the region of Silesia, which today straddles parts of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany, was suffering the aftershocks of an evacuation order put out by the Red Army as it moved through from the east. French Catholic bishops win appeal against 30-person Mass limit - CWR
With its ruling, France's highest administrative court gave Prime Minister Jean Castex three days to propose an alternative protocol to prevent the spread of the coronavirus at places of worship. There's no pill for pangs of conscience - Mercatornet
A contraceptive innovation, the Missed Period Pill, is a recipe for psychological anguish. The Journey Home: Wilhelm Röpke & the Humane Economy - The Imaginative Consercative
Wilhelm Röpke asked how to address the problems of social fragmentation and the loss of community feeling, in a world where the market is left to itself. Röpke's own idea was that society is nurtured and perpetuated at the local level, through motives that are quite distinct from the pursuit of rational self interest. When did the media stop telling the truth? - UnHerd
A major atrocity was concealed from the public in 1945 — not despite the press but thanks to it. Yes, the Media Is Our Enemy - Crisis Magazine
It has always surprised me that the mainstream press is so down on Theodore McCarrick. Common Supplements Might Reduce COVID Severity - US Pharmacist
While the best evidence continues to support three behaviors as the most effective methods of reducing risk — maintaining a physical distance of 6 feet, wearing a mask, and washing hands frequently and thoroughly — some research indicates that certain supplements and common OTC medications could reduce the risk of infection or mitigate the seriousness of symptoms. Glorifying God in your Body - The Catholic Thing
"How do I properly care for — glorify — a body that will die someday?" The bittersweet reason Boston receives a Christmas tree from Nova Scotia every year - Aleteia
103 years ago, tragedy brought out the very best in these North American neighbors. Sleeping Whales: Photographer Reveals What Whales Look Like When They Snooze - Return to Now
Sperm whales organize themselves into strange vertical patterns at bedtime, appearing to sleep "standing up." St. John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
