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When we were commissioned to look at our bookshelves and find a book to pull off and promote, I knew exactly which one I would blow the dust off and first.  The book A Severe Mercy, by Sheldon Vanauken was now in my hand and I couldn’t help noticed that my heart was beating a […]

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Greetings, fellow sojourners!
I’ve decided that we need to start posting in more categories and finding a more regular rhythm for our musings here. To that end, I invite everyone (and particularly my fellow Luceat! bloggers) to start looking at their book collections with an eye toward the good, the true, and the beautiful.
I plan […]

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It is easy to condemn those Catholics who lead a double life. They show up to Bible study and then go home and feed their addiction to internet porn. They attend church on Sunday and then publicly support a pro-choice agenda during their term in office.
However, we all lead a double life to […]

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One of the temptations that we face in our modern era is becoming overly spiritual. Before you call me crazy and say that there is not enough understanding of the spiritual world today, give me a blog entry to justify my stance.
I agree that we need to understand that there are more […]

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Let us enter Joseph’s Workshop in Nazareth, where we find him working hard and a little lad by his side. This youngster is our Lord Jesus. He is holding the lamp for Joseph and handing him the proper tools when Joseph sticks out his hand. From time to time Joseph would hand Jesus the saw […]

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Initially, when the movie The Nativity Story was advertised, I was thrilled. Good art always intrigues me, as do the few artists and cinematographers brave enough to produce religious works in our relativistic and apathetic age. I took a group of students with me to view the film and left with mixed emotions.
On one […]

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This past weekend I spent time with some friends at Our Lady of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, IL. During my prayer time on Friday, I came to the conviction of my need to be more generous, to be heroically generous. With my new found conviction to do generous deeds, I made a resolution to […]

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Aristotle claimed there is one thing that all human beings have in common, regardless of who they are, where they are from, or what century they live in: they desire to be happy. Our experience confirms Aristotle’s proposition, or at least mine does. I certainly want to be happy, and I’ve never met someone […]

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Happy New Year! I have always found this time of the year very interesting. It is a time of resolutions, hope, laughter, and renewal. There seems to be something very good in the intentions of people’s hearts at the beginning of a new year. People start to look at themselves and realize their own imperfections […]

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