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See You Not? … Neither Do You Remember
Someone asked me recently, “What was the most surprising thing you learned during your conversion?” I said there were many surprises, of every kind you can imagine, and they were all “good” surprises, meaning that they took something that only kind of made sense and fit it into a picture that makes perfect sense. All…
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He Called Unto Him Whom He Would
“Behold thy mother and thy brethren, without, seek for thee. And answering them, he said: Who is my mother and my brethren? … For whosoever shall do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and my mother.” (Mark 3:32-35) 1 What is the meaning of life? I mean what is the…
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How Can We Know?
“Thomas saith to him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?” (St. John 14:5) 1 For years I felt the horror of the belief that my mind and soul was merely a bunch of firing neurons. I tried to believe this, at times, with all my might, desiring…
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Let Us Go over to Bethlehem and See
Luke 2:15 Say you were going for a walk, and someone ran up to you and said, “Your house is on fire!” How would you react? The rational thing to do would be to treat this as a real emergency, right? You would call 911, run back to see, and so on. Of course, it…