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Breaking News! Students check facebook more than email, voicemail, and personal mailboxes!
This has been on my mind lately. How does facebook play into the New Evangelization? I think it could be a great tool. I have found it to the easiest way to contact and stay in touch with students. [...]

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Can someone explain to me the popularity of Ash Wednesday?
When I was a college student, our chapel saw thousands more students than would normally attend Sunday Mass — there were three Masses celebrated throughout the day (four, if you count the ‘overflow’ Mass held in the basement simultaneously with the evening celebration), and the place [...]

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You might have noticed that the appearance of our blog has lately been dramatically altered.  We’re having some “issues” of an indeterminate and highly technical sort…
Please stay tuned for further adjustments…

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How could I not? He blends beatboxing and the psalms, Chassidic sensibilities and upbeat reggae/dancehall/hip-hop. Check out Matisyahu.You can find videos of some of his performances on YouTube or Google — I recommend listening to/watching “Jerusalem”, from his recent album Youth. Here’s a sample of the lyrics:
Jerusalem, if I forget you,
fire [...]

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Disclaimer:
It is hard for me to imagine that anyone could be even slightly less interested in Jane Austen than I am, but my editor has convinced me that I must at least try. I’ve tried to be brief, but failed miserably. Nonetheless, I hope you enjoy my rantings all the same…
Just as “it [...]

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I was informed that the topic of this blog has turned toward literature. However, it seems that my gentleman companions have already expounded upon the sublime realities revealed by two of the five titles on my “Favorite Reads of My Life Thus Far” list. Therefore, in retaliation, (and because I wrote the following ten [...]

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