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It was 21 years today that I entered the most difficult promise I would ever make. I wish I could say it’s been easy, but…
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From Prayer for Missionaries: How is it, then, great God, that although it is so glorious, so satisfying and so profitable to serve you, hardly…
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Has there ever been a time with greater access to truth? We have the knowledge of the whole world–the vastness of space, the infinitesimal perfection…
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32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time First Reading 1 Kgs 17:10-16 [10] And the Philistine said: I have defied the bands of Israel this day: Give…