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Why Does the Kettle Boil?
This post is also available in: Or: Why the Bible is True Let us imagine a simple everyday situation: A whistling kettle with bubbling water is on the stove. Steam rises. Someone enters the kitchen and asks: “Why is the water boiling?” Now there are two completely different, yet equally correct answers: Which answer…
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Our Father
This post is also available in: Our Father, who art in heaven,hallowed be thy name.Thy kingdom come.Thy will be done,on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread.And forgive us our trespasses,as we forgive those who trespass against us.And lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from evil.For thine is the…
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Apostles’ Creed
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The Sustaining Ground of Our Lives
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The Power of God
We live in a world that constantly drills into us that we must deliver. Be strong, function, maintain control, and above all, show no weakness. And then life comes around the corner with a force that completely pulls the rug out from under us: a heavy loss, an illness, the feeling of standing before a…
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Nativity of Mary
When one thinks of Mary, often the image that comes to mind is a gently smiling figure in a blue mantle, standing demurely in a church corner, hands folded. Pious, quiet, unquestioning. But when one looks at the biblical story without a soft focus, this image crumbles significantly. Mary was not a delicate ornament, but…
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Exaltation of the Holy Cross
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Marian Offering
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Why the Dishwashing Is Not a Secular Place
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Serving Without Illusions
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Rosary of Sanctification through the Wounds of Christ
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Mother Mary
Gracious God, You have given Mary as a Mother to all people; hear her intercession; take from us the sadness of this time, but one day grant us eternal
