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| Note from the Managing Editor |
Sometimes—often, we need a bit of hope. Our reprints this week are chock-full of that good stuff, and what it all comes down to is this.We can choose to believe, to trust, and to keep on loving no matter what.
To say of those suffering 'what else were they to do?' is to miss the truth. Those of whom I speak made a choice they did not have to make.
They chose to open their hands, to open their eyes, and to open their hearts. Even as it seemed a knife was being driven in further. And they said in effect:
'This does not change what I've always known to be so.'
'It is all gift.'
'We are so blessed.' This is from John Cuddeback's One Possible Reason God 'Lets' It Happen. And there's just more good stuff from there. Check it out below.
God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez, Editor
Virgem Dolorosa by Pedro Américo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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"Obedience is a short cut to perfection." - St. Philip Neri
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| One in Christ, One in Love |
| Caryll Houselander, Lift up Your Hearts |
| There is one characteristic of this generation that is wholly good. |
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| Sober Inebriation |
| Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing |
| Poor Saint Peter. The first pope's first Urbi et Orbi address (so to speak) begins inauspiciously. He had to start, not with a bold proclamation of Christ, but with assurances that the disciples weren't actually drunk. |
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| Caravaggio's Road to Damascus |
| Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing |
| It's the Year of Our Lord 34, and Saul is on his way to Damascus to persecute "the Way," as Luke puts it in Acts 9. Then—all of a sudden—BOOM! |
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| A man, his wife, and her mantilla |
| Angelus News |
| The mantilla is the shelter the bride offers her husband from the sun and biting wind, and from the restless roughness of the world. |
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| The Secret Sisterhood of Widows |
| NC Register |
| Like so many other widows, I've learned over the years that our suffering can become a balm for others who are facing that same reality. |
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| "Housing First" Policy Is Not Helping the Homeless |
| The Public Discourse |
| It takes excruciating self-loathing for a person to defecate on public sidewalks, shoot up with poisonous drugs, engage in rampant criminality. The mental illness and dissipation is sometimes so profound that many of these poor people die on the streets. Providing housing vouchers alone simply doesn't cut it. |
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| VIDEO: The Heart of Nuba Trailer |
| Rotten Tomatoes Indie |
| Welcome to the war-torn Nuba Mountains of Sudan, where American Doctor Tom Catena selflessly and courageously serves the needs of a forgotten people. |
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