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Eastertime: A Feast of Faith, Hope and Love

by Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. on April 24, 2013 · 2 comments

A friend once described the spiritual life in this way: Each of us is a child with an instinct for beauty, and God, who is the Beauty behind all beauty, is the hidden presence we naturally seek to touch. We…

Placing All Our Trust in the God of Hope

by Fr. Ed Broom on February 13, 2013 · 0 comments

Hope is related to trust; trust is related to faith; faith is related to confidence.

HUMAN FAITH. Countless times every day we place our faith and trust in persons, companies, institutions, and even ideas. In very simple and constant ways…

A Blossoming of Hope

by Hallie Lord on January 9, 2013 · 1 comment

It was late summer when I boxed up my belongings, said goodbye to family and friends, and impetuously moved from one coast to another to be with the boy who’d stolen my heart. His name was Dan, and I was…

Hopeless In Connecticut

by Dr. Paul Kengor on December 19, 2012 · 10 comments

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Of all the sick feelings after the shootings in Connecticut, the one plaguing me the most is hopelessness. I’ve had that lingering feeling for a while now, actually. I feel it toward my fellow Americans, the way a…

Second Sunday of Advent: A Season of Hope

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. December 7, 2012

Faith, hope, and love.  St. Paul, in I Corinthians 13:13, say these three are the bottom line.  They are called the theological virtues, the qualities that make us most like God.
We hear plenty about faith and love.  But when…

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Miraculous Healing

by Maurice Blumberg February 23, 2012

This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel. (Mark 1:15)
Whatever town you enter and they welcome you, eat what is set before you, cure the sick in it…

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The Beacon of the British Bulldog

by Jake Frost January 24, 2012

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”– Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill purchased that insight with dear experience. I didn’t realize what a rollercoaster of Himalaya-highs and Death-Valley-lows his life was until…

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Scrap the Bucket List

by Charity Singleton January 23, 2012

The very night I finished radiation, I joined a gym. It was on my list, right before, “Get Pizza for Dinner.” When I mentioned the pizza to the manager who was registering my gym membership, he said lots of people…

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Got Optimism? Studies Point to the Source

by Harold G. Koenig, MD December 6, 2011

For many, the holidays are a time of greater joy and celebration. For others, however, it can be a time of sadness and remembering good times long past. Nevertheless, there is an attitude that we must fight for, called optimism,…

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Drowning? Identify Your Life Preserver

by Dr. Vincent Kituku December 1, 2011

It has been said that you may be a nobody to the world, but to somebody you are the world. To understand what “being somebody” truly means, one must experience unconditional love in his or her most vulnerable moment. That…

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