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Lent with the Saints: Thomas More

February 27, 2020

Thomas More was a scholar, author, lawyer, family man, and chancellor of England.

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Lent with the saints

Lent with the Saints: Do You Want to Be a Saint?

February 26, 2020
Joel 2:12–18; Psalm 51:3–4, 5–6, 12–13, 17; 2 Corinthians 5:20—6:2; Matthew 6:1–6, 16–18
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Woman making a heart out of light | Photo by Rhand McCoy on Unsplash

Love Letters From God

February 14, 2020
Viewing Scripture as “love letters from God” causes us to pause and reconsider the significance of the Bible in our personal and communal lives of faith.
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St. Maximilian Kolbe: Franciscan Martyr

January 29, 2020
On July 30, 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi camp in Poland...
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People walk in dense fog in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp during ceremonies in late January marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day in in Oswiecim, Poland. (CNS photo/Kacper Pempel, Reuters)

St. Maximilian Kolbe: A Life of Heroic Love

January 27, 2020
Pope John Paul II canonized Conventual Franciscan Father Maximilian Kolbe in Rome on October 10, 1982.
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Radical Saints: 21 Women for the 21st Century

Radical Saints: Marianne Cope

January 23, 2020
Marianne Cope listened only to God, accepting and caring for people others feared or found distasteful and putting her own health at risk.
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Man staring out the window | Photo by Anaya Katlego on Unsplash

Be Still and Know

January 23, 2020
I believe we are naturally restless people.
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