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I’m very excited this morning as we begin our pro-life VBS program.  I wanted to get my assignment and blog entry done first thing and get my prayers in early.  I am glad I did.  The first reading for today reminds me that in all things, it is God whoContinue Reading

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Tomorrow is the feast of Saint Agatha.  It’s interesting that when we see her story we find that the Church has chosen two readings about two very different Kings, contrasting them as book ends.  What do Kings have to do with this amazing woman from the mid 3rd century? IContinue Reading

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There is a phrase that caught my eye when looking at the readings for tomorrow’s daily Mass.  It’s a strange one to my 21st century American mind.  “The scepter shall never depart from Judah, or the mace from between his legs”  In our culture a mace is either a weaponContinue Reading