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God’s Call is Clear

One time, when I was 24, I went to see my family doctor.  In the waiting…


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Love, Suffering, Love

    Love, suffering, love.  This is the theme of today’s homily, and it indicates a…


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Begin Again With Equilibrium

Many of us struggle with highs and lows in our lives: When we’re high, we’re…


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Evangelization Helps Us Begin Again

  There’s a popular YouTube channel about exercise and one of the videos is entitled,…


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Begin Again, By Going to the Heart

  Anne was worried about her husband, Mark.  Things were better after he met with a…


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Begin Again Through Trials

  Today, we’re going to answer the question of why God allows spiritual desolation, something…


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Begin Again, Because God Begins Again

  Merry Christmas! If we are suffering from any discouragement, God doesn’t want this.  Discouragement is…


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Begin Again: More Blessings Are Coming

    There are two things you can do to see God’s blessings in your…


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Begin Again: Go Out of Yourself

  In 1965 Archbishop Sheen quoted Carl Jung, the famous psychiatrist, who stated that about…


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Begin Again

    Because of the First Reading and because we’re now in Advent, the beginning…


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Envy

      Some of you might have enjoyed the movie Parasite, a Korean film that…


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Think of Our Sins Before the Sins of Others

    You may remember these two simple ideas from a year and a half…


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Warning

A while back, I called a 30-year old man who had been a young adult…


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Five Ways God Expands Our Horizons

The strictest order of monks in the Church is the Carthusians, semi-hermits who live in…


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Where’s Your Best Place to Pray?

[Watch Fr. Justin’s homily delivery here.] Would you spend 30 days here at this retreat…


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How to Ask for the Best Gifts

          “At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream…


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Three Ways to Receive Blessings

  Why does it seem that Jesus blesses some people more than others?  A similar question…


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Freedom in Accepting Our Bodies

Let’s talk about the challenge of not accepting our bodies.  All of us have experiences of…


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Seeking the Truth

  Last week, we talked about overcoming the fear of speaking the truth.  Today, the theme…


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Losing the Fear of Speaking the Truth

Let’s talk about speaking the truth, and, at the end, do it in relation to…


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How Real is the Real Presence

There was once a Catholic CIA agent assigned as a courier of intelligence between Baghdad…


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Another Antidote to Taking Ourselves Too Seriously

Two weeks ago, one idea struck a chord with many of us: That we take…


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Four Steps to Explosive Celebrations

When was the last time you had a really good celebration, where you forgot about…


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Life is a Test and Temporary Assignment

“The way you see your life shapes your life” (Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life,…


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Overcoming the Fear of Evangelization

Brett Powell, a Catholic leader in North America and someone I greatly respect, wrote recently,…


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How to Stop Getting Pulled in Different Directions

Author Greg McKeown tells the story of the day after his daughter was born.  His wife…


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Three Clues to Hear Jesus’ Voice

   All day long our thoughts can waver between being hopeful and depressed, feeling loved…


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Ways in Which Jesus Acts in Our Lives

     If you were a priest, what would you say to someone in the following…


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Apostles Are Alive!

     Did you realize that last week, when you encountered a very difficult situation, that…


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The Capacity to Suffer = The Capacity to Love

Happy Easter, everyone!  And again a special welcome to all of our guests!  The question…


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