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4th Sunday of Easter First Reading Acts 2:14a, 36-41 [14] But Peter standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke to them:…
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The GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) diet is probably completely foreign to most of my readers. It is a modification of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet,…
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I made a plenary indulgence, and now I am more pitiful. Boy, it sure didn’t take me long! The trouble is that, after having achieved…
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CHAPTER VI. The First Purification, namely, from Mortal Sin. THE first purification to be made is from sin;–the means whereby to make it, the sacrament…
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3rd Sunday of Easter First Reading Acts 2:14, 22-33 [14] But Peter standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke to them:…
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I know it is Easter, but I have a few last words for the Lent that is past. I’ve been Catholic for 8 years this…
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CHAPTER V. The First Step must be Purifying the Soul. “THE flowers appear on the earth,” [15] says the Heavenly Bridegroom, and the time for…
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This post should rightly be a praise, and yet emotionally I feel lament. As such, it is an illumination on my interior disposition. A little…
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Second Sunday of Easter First Reading Acts 2:42-47 [42] And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles, and in the communication of the…
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CHAPTER IV. The Need of a Guide for those who would enter upon and advance in the Devout Life. WHEN Tobias was bidden to go…