Letters - 2016 - Page 2

New York & New Jersey Knights!

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On Saturday evening, October 29, 2016, the New York/New Jersey chapter of the CL Knights met at Our Lady Of Mt Carmel-St Benedicta School on Staten Island...

Wisconsin Pilgrims

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On October 8, 2016, 30 people from Wisconsin walked from Pike Lake to The Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians, at Holy Hill to celebrate the Jubilee Year of Mercy Pilgrimage...

I'm Verifying Christ's Presence Through this Election

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The flier that we wrote about the upcoming political election (“Protagonists of Our Own History”) made me discover that this was an opportunity to verify Christ. I am more grateful; I am happier now than I was before...

Rémi Brague: Albacete Lecture 2016

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I feel quite certain that Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete was “wagging his tail,” as he used to say, when he looked down on the packed theater at the Sheen Center for Faith and Culture in New York City...

Albacete Lecture on Faith and Culture

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A few months ago, the Crossroads Cultural Center in New York asked Rémi Brague to commemorate Monsignor Albacete by speaking about one of Monsignor’s favorite topics: the relationship between faith and culture...

To the Periphery

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When the class finished and we were getting ready to leave, three people stayed and approached my husband and said: “Maestro, we don’t want this to end. We want more of this. What can we do?"

"They Told Me to Come Here..."

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I was so excited when I was asked to help with the Pilgrimage of Mercy for Florida! The Shrine of Our Lady La Leche is one my favorite places in the world, where I've grown up going to visit and pray ever since I can remember...

The Fruit of Dialogue

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We had our second Assembly on politics in Los Angeles, and it was great...

Your Kingdom Come

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We are almost at the end of this Holy Year, the year of Mercy. For me, it has really been a time of Grace, a great gift. A time of change...

"I Promise to be Faithful..."

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On October 1, 2016, my dear friends Tom and Caitlin vowed themselves to each other in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony before a company of witnesses at St. Patrick’s Church in Brooklyn, NY...

Lorenzo: Another Viewpoint

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My wife is right, as always. As I switch between conservative and liberal media outlets, my political voyeurism becomes almost an obsession; at least she called it that...

New Hope for a Friendship

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Shortly before the Colorado Vacation last summer a friend of mine was justly incarcerated and is now serving a strict probation that is almost a form of house arrest...

Can I Have this Forever?

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The importance of silence. The provocation by a hike with six year olds and their desire to share.

Brunch for a Friend

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Jeremy is a 37 year old married man and father, recently diagnosed with metastatic bone cancer. A small group of us did a fund raising brunch in our parish for this not-so-well-known family in our parish. This is my reflection of how the day went.

Women in a hospital Hall. CC0

Our "Yes" is Enough

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The “Yes” of Peter has been incredible for me since the very first time I read it, and having read it several times in these days, I’ve discovered two human positions that are born of, and are understood from, that humanly foolish “yes."

An Invitation to Mars and Beyond

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Watching the first Moon landing on my family’s old black and white TV remains one of my most vivid childhood memories...

Acadiana Encounter: La Bonne Vie

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In Louisiana there is a saying that you hear from the time you are born: la bonne vie, which means “the good life."