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  • Be Thankful for Thanksgiving–It is a Beautiful Thing

    by Larry Peterson Right now, a few days before “Turkey Day”, there are many people with very little money and the anxiety levels within them are rapidly increasing. They see the ads for ‘Black Friday’ all over the TV screen. They know Santa will be firing up the eight reindeer in less than a month. If… Read more

  • I'd appreciate your vote!

    Lo and Behold I won this on December 3rd Vote for the year’s best Catholic spirituality post for the 2013 Frankie Award! Please vote for my post:New Year’s Day and the Blessed Virgin Maryby Larry Peterson of It Makes Sense to Me Voting ends on December 3 at Midnight PST. Click here to vote:http://catholicspiritualityblogs.blogspot.com/2013/11/frankie-award-vote-for-years-best.html Read more

  • John F Kennedy, a Kid from the Bronx and a Moment in Time

    IT MAKES SENSE TO ME by Larry Peterson“The president is dead.”  For those of us who can remember those words from 50 years ago they were seared into our brains like letters sand-blasted into a granite headstone forever; clear, succinct and unmistakable in meaning. How could this be? Things like this did not happen, especially… Read more

  • When it comes to Religion, we Americans are Spoiled Rotten

    by Larry Peterson When it comes to religion we here in the United States of America are spoiled rotten. We can worship unencumbered anytime we choose and we do not even give it a second thought. “C’mon, let’s go. We don’t want to be late for church.”  How many millions of times has that been… Read more

  • We Catholics Have an Undeniably Jewish DNA

    by Larry Peterson When I was growing up in the Bronx we lived on the third floor  in a five story walk-up on Sherman Ave. There were eight of us in a four room apartment. In the apartment below lived  Leo and Sophie Rabinowitz.  Quite often, in the middle of the night,  blood-curdling screams filled… Read more

  • Talk About a Love Story–meet Mary Clarke aka Mother Antonia Brenner

    by Larry Peterson Mary Clarke was born in Los Angeles on December 1, 1926. Her parents, Joe and Kathleen Clarke, were Irish immigrants and dad  strictly enforced  the catholic upbringing of Mary and his other two children. Joe sold office supplies to the military during World War II and made a lot of money. The… Read more