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Mother’s Day—After Years of Dreading It I Can Finally Embrace It
IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson (updated from 2016 article) Mother’s Day is here and I will tell you immediately that it has never been my favorite holiday. My mother died 56 years ago. She had just turned 40. (She had Leukemia and if you had Leukemia 56 years ago, you were “toast”.) For… Read more
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A Catholic Priest has Extraordinary Powers–He Has Been Given the Power of Christ Himself
IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson Recently I wrote about how being a Catholic caregiver gives that person an “edge”. I had no idea that only a day later I would be standing next to an unconscious body that was being kept alive through the use of mechanical means and medications. Somewhere inside that… Read more
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The Priest asked, "He must be heavy?" The Boy answered, "No Father, He ain't heavy, He's my Brother." *
IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson It was somewhere near Omaha, Nebraska and the year was 1918. A young, Catholic priest was walking down the dirt road near the boy’s orphanage he had recently opened. The priest came upon two boys, one carrying the other on his back. The priest stopped and said to… Read more
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Deacon Roger & Helena Cartier–A Catholic Love Story for Us All to Honor
IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson St. John Paul II said, “Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.” The sainted Holy Father was referring to… Read more
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