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If you are discouraged…
By
awelborn
…about the state of the Church at any level, here are my suggestions: (Besides the assumed pray more, seriously open yourself to Christ in the liturgy no matter how the externals bug you, study some history, etc) 1) Get a spiritual director and submit yourself to direction. If you are seriously discouraged in your faith,…
East Timor’s Mother Theresa
By
awelborn
Her name is Sister Lourdes Even after the United Nations had come to East Timor, Sister Lourdes’ work with the militia and the refugees was not complete. Thousands of East Timorese were still being held by militia in camps in Indonesian-held West Timor and so, in the spring of 2001, Sister Lourdes went there to…
60 Years in Georgia
By
awelborn
This weekend, the Holy Spirit Trappist Monastery in Conyers, Georgia celebrates 60 years Holy Spirit was organized in March 1944 as an offshoot of Gethsemani, another Cistercian monastery in Kentucky. Most of the 20 founding monks had never been in the Deep South. Father Luke Kot, 92, says the locals didn’t know what to make…
Mission Impossible
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awelborn
An editorial in the SF Examiner wonders why the Bush administration is opposed to 10 million in federal funds going to help prop up and restore California missions The administration is opposed to using federal funds to restore 19 of the missions, which are owned by the Catholic Church and used for worship services. It…
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