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  • This College Kid Can Teach All of Us a Lesson*

    IT MAKES SENSE TO ME  By Larry Peterson Celebrating the Founder of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Blessed Frederick Ozanam:    September 7 is his Feast Day   (First posted in 2016) Most Catholics know of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The Society has been helping people in need for over 180 years. What Read more

  • You cannot love the child’s home and then kill the child.

    By Larry Peterson A Person’s A Person No Matter How Small  (Dr. Seuss) The drums of Climate Change are pounding harder and harder every day. School children are being indoctrinated about the cataclysm posed to destroy the Mother Planet. Purveyors of the “existential threat” about to waste us are in our face 24/7. We hear Read more

  • William “Billy” Peterson; I was honored to be his Dad

    Posted by Larry Peterson July 11, 2022 William “Billy” Peterson December 12, 1971~July 06, 2022 This is about a guy who lived in Pinellas Park whose name was William “Billy” Peterson. Billy was a man filled with great empathy, intuition, faith, and love for family, friends, and humanity. He was a father figure to his Read more

  • My Father Died Long Ago—but His Example Lives On

    By Larry Peterson Sometimes things happen that you never forget I remember that Friday night long ago very well. The screaming started about midnight. It was September, and the windows were still open because it was hot, and the screaming seemed exceptionally chilling. Dad got up, and my brother, Danny, whispered from his bed, “I Read more

  • Corpus Christi—Taking Jesus public all around the World

    By Larry Peterson This Day is for putting Jesus on Display The Bishops of the United States have proclaimed that 2022 is the year for a National Eucharistic Revival. This revival will launch on June 19, 2022, on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. (The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ). It Read more

  • What are the origins of Adoration and Benediction ?

    By Larry Peterson Growing up and going to Catholic school, we had religion class every day. One thing we all learned about was the “Real Presence.”  There was no doubt in our minds that inside the church, Jesus was truly present “body and blood, soul and divinity. He was inside the tabernacle, and He was Read more