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You're not as bad as all that

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The safest way to ride all history storms. ( Spanish) La vida en Dios es paz en las actuales tormentas del mundo.

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         El evento de la Pandemia y de la nueva dinámica que parece haber traído no parece tener lógica ni sitio en nuestro vivir, todo se ve gris y ya hasta se habla del "Gran Reinicio" . Por eso debemos verlas en un horizonte más amplio de nuestro mundo y nuestro tiempo y esta entrevista de López Dóriga hace eso: una evaluación muy real de lo que está sucediendo y que nos deja ver que seguimos esperando que algún invento, sistema o evento nos salve. Nos hace ver lo que Jesús en la fe católica nos ha dicho por siglos: que la felicidad y el bienestar lo tenemos que construir desde nuestro interior, en el alma, en el corazón. En ese lugar donde está Dios esperándodnos desde siempre para ayudarnos a construir una vida plena a prueba de las mareas de la historia y el mundo, junto a los demás.   Vale la pena escucharlo y aplicar varias de las recomendaciones que nos da para esta época:     Por:  Dr. José Antonio Lozano Díez, Presidente de la Junta de Gobierno de la Un

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Thirsting

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  I was in the middle of a book by Father John Riccardo titled Rescued (which is very good) and a thought struck me. I’m big on evangelization and the importance of helping people see the necessity of coming to Christ.   The Good News.   Salvation.   Eternal life.   All of it. But, when you work in ministry, especially with an eye towards evangelization, you sort of get stuck in this line of questioning . . .   How do you let others know the beauty of faith?   How do you inspire them to seek baptism?   When life is so busy and people are pulled in so many directions, how do you help them see that life is meaningless without God? So, in the middle of the book I had his thought . . . Sometimes I start reading a book and just cannot keep going.   Either I find the book uninteresting, irrelevant, or I’d simply rather be doing something else. Then, down the road, I may pick up that book again, and because my circumstances have changed, or my interests, or my needs, I begin to

Floyd/Chauvin Trial, Taser Trouble and Irksome Issues

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On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, a jury said that Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. Folks have been reacting to that. But protestors haven't torched Minneapolis shops and services in the three days since then. Not as far as I know. Which is a relief, but not a surprise. For one thing, it's late April: still a bit too chilly for comfort during pyromaniac performance art's prime time. I'll be taking a quick look at headlines. Then I'll talk about life, law, justice and why I think murder is a bad idea. More at A Catholic Citizen in America .

You do not leave a child at a time like this' (Janusz Korczak). Sunday Reflections, 4th Sunday of Easter, Year B

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  The Good Shepherd Early Italian Christian Painter [ Web Gallery of Art ] Readings   (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland) Readings   (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Gospel     John 19:11-18     (English Standard Version, Anglicised) Jesus said: “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.   He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.   He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.   I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,   just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.   And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.   For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life tha

Are You Calling Me, Lord?

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I was reading about the need for assistants in Chapter 6 of the Acts of the Apostles.   There were complaints (against the Apostles) that the widows of the Greek speaking Jews were being neglected. In response to this complaint, the Apostles readily identified “seven reputable men” who would take care of this problem.   But here’s what stood out for me . . . “The twelve” were very clear that it was not right for them to “neglect the word of God to serve at table.”   In other words, they knew what they were responsible for and didn’t try to do everything themselves.   The distribution of labor, if you will, quickly became a necessity in the early church. That is true for us today. I talk a lot about evangelization, sharing your faith and speaking the name of Jesus in this increasingly non-Christian world.   However, each one of us is called according to his vocation and not one of us has to do it all. Some of us are called to be pray-ers.   Some preachers, writers and worker b