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  As He falls the third time…

  Mar 17, 2023

  ...meanwhile, let’s remember that Jesus has been there…with His energy almost completely depleted and the weight of the Cross crushing His body, He conquered this Station.

  
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  Waiting for the angel to come

  Mar 17, 2023

  The night before he died, Jesus struggled mightily to accept his Father’s will. The Gospels describe him in the Garden of Gethsemane, prostrate on the ground, “sweating blood”, and begging his Father to save him from the brutal death that awaited him. Then, after he finally surrenders his will to hi

  
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  I'm an abuse survivor. Pope Francis met with me and changed my life.

  Mar 17, 2023

  I met Francis one day during a battle of years with so many Church leaders who — as some still do — had tried to silence me and so many survivors about the horrors of abuse. In 2018, I was given the opportunity to speak to Francis directly.

  
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  You can never outgive the Lord

  Mar 10, 2023

  Cradle Catholic lawyer Joachim Xavier felt the Lord calling him to serve in His vineyard six months after attending a Life in the Spirit Seminar (LSS).

  
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  The WE is as important as the ME

  Mar 10, 2023

  We have existential conversations about God, faith, outward signs of piety, inner conversions, and the struggle to find truth in a polarised world.

  
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  A collapsed ceiling, crisis communication and human behaviour

  Mar 10, 2023

  In a crisis, it is important to quell speculation and rumours immediately. Otherwise, it could lead to untruths and finger pointing. This leads to my second point about human behaviour.

  
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  A requiem for an older brother

  Mar 10, 2023

  In the Gospel of John, the author describes how, after Jesus was already dead, soldiers came and pierced his side with a lance and “immediately blood and water flowed” out of his dead body.

  
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  Are your children away from the Church? Keep knocking on the door

  Mar 10, 2023

  There isn’t a formula for offering suffering or a ritual. It’s an act of the will, and it’s hard, because I can’t see how my will (that they return to the Church) is not God’s will too.

  
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  My duty to serve

  Mar 03, 2023

  At age 13, Katrina Mariswamy felt her purpose was to help people and make a difference in the world of the underprivileged and downtrodden.

  
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  Starting them young

  Mar 03, 2023

  Many would argue that we never had these “comforts” in past years, and neither did we have air-conditioned churches back then.