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Monthly Archives: February 2019
God is love
February 13
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.”
-1 John 4:7
Today’s Reflection:
God is the source of love and you can’t give what you don’t have. Allow God to love you today. Spend time in His loving gaze.
New Mexico Poised to Pass Radical Abortion Bill
Pro-abortion legislators in the state of New Mexico are poised to pass another radical abortion bill, with this one mandating that all doctors perform abortions regardless of their personal beliefs.
For Your Marriage: Dealing with the Empty Nest
by Judy Clark
The Situation
Tom and Maribeth are college sweethearts married 29 years. They feel they have a stable marriage that has involved raising four children. It has been a wild ride of parenthood with a few hair-raising experiences. Still, they both agree that all four have been successfully launched into adulthood. And now that their youngest has recently married, they are truly an “empty nest” marriage, not just the “shifting nest” of college years and a few years beyond.
Vatican to Rule on McCarrick Case This Month
It is expected that the case involving disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick who is accused of various incidents of sexual abuse over the past 50 years, will be decided by the Vatican before the February 21-24 bishops summit on clerical abuse.
Share with those in need
February 12
“He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.”
-Luke 3:11
Today’s Reflection:
40 bags in 40 days is a popular exercise of getting rid of clutter during the Lenten season. But what about letting go of things that we want but really don’t need? What one thing can you do to live with less than you want today? Make a point to share with someone in need.
Crystal Skull “Gives Me the Creeps!”
KW writes: “I was recently given a ‘gift’— a carved stone, tiger eye, in the shape of a skull. I am concerned about its possible significance (and, quite frankly, it gives me the creeps.) What can you tell me about it? Is there any harm in keeping it? And what is the best way to dispose of it? (A member of the healing ministry at our church suggested I throw it in the river).”
Changing Your Spouse – and Yourself
by Lauri Przybysz
They say that when a man marries a woman, he thinks, “She’s the one I’ve been waiting for. She’ll never change.” – and she always does. And a woman looks at her man, and thinks, “He just needs a little work; after we’re married, I’ll help him change” – and he never does.
Anthroposophy/Waldorf and Catholic Homeschooling
JM asks: “Can a Catholic take elements from Waldorf/Steiner/anthroposophy into a Christian home? How dangerous is it to implement some of the New Age elements within the home? This is a big problem with Catholic homeschoolers, but it isn’t addressed in other places. To me it’s completely obvious it’s New Age and stay clear, but I do know there is individual free consciences.”
Sown among thorns
February 11
“And others are the ones sown among thorns; they are those who hear the word, but the cares of the world, and the delight in riches, and the desire for other things, enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. But those that were sown upon the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”
-Mark 4: 18-19
Today’s Reflection:
Do the cares of the world, delight in riches, or concern for things choke out the word of God and its fruitfulness in your life? What one thing can you release to the Lord today to be more receptive to the word?
