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Is it me, or is the rush to Christmas Day each year faster and more accelerated than ever?
We start seeing Christmas decorations in stores before Halloween, and the world makes us feel like we …
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By Anita Frey
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11/25/25
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I ran into a friend at a game. He was there with his wife, who I hadn’t seen in ages.
A few years ago, he told me that she was suffering from dementia. I had no idea of her current …
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By Mark Saucier
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11/12/25
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“Thus says the Lord: ‘A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no …
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By Liz Schleicher
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10/2/25
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“There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.”
Luke’s parable of The Rich Man and Lazarus opens with an iconic line, like …
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By Mark Saucier
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10/2/25
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It’s the Season of Creation!
It doesn’t look like it. The corn fields have turned brown. Leaves, forced into early retirement by drought, ready themselves for change.
And the …
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By Mark Saucier
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9/18/25
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Another two children killed. Another 15 classmates injured, along with three adults.
New numbers to add to a sadly familiar scene. There have been hundreds of school shootings since Columbine …
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By Mark Saucier
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9/4/25
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A while back, I hired a contractor to build a garage.
I gave him the downpayment and he did some preliminary work, but never built the garage; wouldn’t return calls, etc.
When I …
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By Eugene Vogel
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8/21/25
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I received a note from a friend the other day. In what we learned as the “complimentary close” back when letters were a thing, she wrote “Peace and All Good.”
This …
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By Mark Saucier
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8/21/25
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My brother and his wife had stopped by the house. We chatted awhile, catching up on kids and grandkids.
We always do that, but this time was different, a cloud hovered over the conversation.
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By Mark Saucier
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8/7/25
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“Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Those words have been in the Judeo-Christian tradition for 3,500 years.
You’d think that we’d be doing a better job of it by now.
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By Mark Saucier
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7/24/25
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At 16, he joined a religious community.
He came from a rural area in the Philippines. He loved people, loved animals, and was looking for a simple way to help.
He had no …
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By Mark Saucier
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7/9/25
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He always saw parishioners in the hospital and anyone else who wanted a priest or just a visitor.
Once, it was a woman, pregnant and gravely ill, a stranger in town with neither friends nor …
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By Mark Saucier
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6/26/25
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First, my older sister was admitted with a severe intestinal virus. Pneumonia set in. The stress of the two caused her heart to go into AFib.
As all this was spiraling down, another sister …
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By Mark Saucier
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6/12/25
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I will never forget where I first met my uncle, my mother’s brother Lester.
It was Plot D, Row 9, Grave 110 at the Manilla American Cemetery in the Philippines.
It was only a few …
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By Mark Saucier
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5/28/25
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Like so many, my eyes were fixed on the curtained doorway behind the empty balcony. I, too, was curious, excited, hopeful.
Finally, the door opened, a cardinal stepped out and proclaimed, …
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By Mark Saucier
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5/15/25
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Meandering through the museum, we found funerary art from ancient Egypt.
The wealthy deceased were mummified and often placed in a richly adorned wooden coffin. A stone sarcophagus would further …
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By Mark Saucier
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4/30/25
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We were moving into a building we bought for our ministry to women looking for redemption, recovery and reentry.
I was working with a man I’d never met, a volunteer from the church most of …
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By Mark Saucier
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4/17/25
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Genesis is the first book of the Bible and contains the creation narratives. But, it is Exodus, the second book, that provides the origin story of the Israelite people.
With Moses, the burning …
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By Mark Saucier
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4/2/25
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On an early-morning walk, I ducked into a church for a few minutes of prayer. It was a typical old Mexican church, drab with age and neglect, but filled with statues and 17th-century paintings that …
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By Mark Saucier
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3/19/25
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A Jubilee Year is a special year in the Catholic Church.
Jubilees have roots in the Old Testament. In the Bible, the Jubilee Year happened every 50 years. The purpose was to bring fairness, …
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By Phyllis Emmel
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3/19/25
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