This is the first in a series of teachings and reflections offered by the moderator of spiritual formation for the Jefferson City diocese.
Like so many faithful souls around the world, I am a …
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By Father Matthew J. Flatley
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8/31/23
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One of my favorite segments of poetry is the fourth stanza of “Easter,” by George Herbert, a 17th-century English writer who put profound ideas into the simplest language.
Both Emily …
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By Patricia J. Long
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3/29/23
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It’s Lent. Forty days of dedication to prayer, penance, almsgiving and fasting in the name of the Lord. Not fasting like medical fasting before a scan or surgery. Not trendy intermittent …
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By Liz Schleicher
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3/16/23
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Ten years ago, I bought an Eastern Hemlock and planted it at the edge of a wooded ravine in my backyard.
I knew I was tempting fate. Tsuga canadensis is an important species in New England and the …
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By Mike Hoey
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10/12/22
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For three years in the mid-1970s, my wife and I were Catholic volunteers in a program called VIDA, a peace corps-type program run by the diocese of Pueblo, Colorado.
In the summer of 1977, one of …
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By Mike Hoey
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9/14/22
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Every era faces challenges adapting to the vagaries of weather and climate change.
Today, the challenge is global warming, but in the 17th century, the challenge was a global cool-down, a period …
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By Mike Hoey
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8/17/22
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My second-grade teacher taught us a simple morning offering: “My God, I give You, this day, all that I think and do and say.”
It didn’t take me long to see how fraught with peril …
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By Jay Nies
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8/3/22
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My second-grade teacher taught us a simple morning offering: “My God, I give You, this day, all that I think and do and say.”
It didn’t take me long to see how fraught with peril …
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By Jay Nies
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8/3/22
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This article was originally published in the July 13, 2012, print edition of The Catholic Missourian:
I heard none of it.
Franciscan Father Jozo Zovko was speaking to pilgrims from all over …
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By Jay Nies
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6/23/22
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During the early days of Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine, before Western journalists had been ordered to toe the Russian propaganda line or leave, TV cameras showed a very elderly Moscow …
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By Mike Hoey
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4/13/22
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The author is a lifelong examiner of history and public policy.
Vladimir Putin had a sentimental but deadly dream.
He wanted to recreate “Little Russia,” as Ukraine has long been …
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By Mike Hoey
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3/30/22
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This is a more specific version of a list of suggestions Cathedral of St. Joseph parishioner Ed Bode adapted after receiving them from Catholic parishes in Janesville, …
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1/6/22
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The pastor of Holy Family Parish in Hannibal and St. Joseph Parish in Palmyra and moderator for spiritual formation for the Jefferson City diocese offers the following message for Advent:
We are …
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By Father Matthew Flatley
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12/8/21
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