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It is love makes faith, not faith love. –Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman (Parochial and Plain Sermons)
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It is easy to put canonized Saints on a pedestal. They are the best of humanity, most able to give love, humblest, theological prodigies, and…
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As I look around me, I see people of varying levels and degrees of faith. I know very few, if any, atheists. But I see…
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Communion of persons is gift for gift; everything had in-between is love. So the apostle John says God is love. Those that live in…
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CHAPTER XXIII. It is needful to put away all Inclination for Useless and Dangerous Things. SPORTS, balls, plays, festivities, pomps, are not in themselves evil,…