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Praying with Icons: from the Eastern Orthodox tradition 

One of the odd things that has happened to prayer in much of Western Christianity — in some churches with the Reformation, in others more recently — has been the drastic erosion of the physical dimension of spiritual life. Prayer has become mainly an activity of the head. Many of us have become like birds… Read More ›

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Learn to Recognize the Dark forces that Affect Marriage

One of the areas where spiritual warfare is most prevalent is in our homes and our marriages. Here Satan attacks with ferocity. His goal: division. He creates sudden upwellings of often vicious and irrational emotions. When we realize this, it has far less chance of what it seeks: Divide and conquer is his strategy. As… Read More ›

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Between here and there

              Between here and there Trapped between here and there, in moments so swift as to be insubstantial; a wave of nothing that we ride all our days, in futures unknown and fate unsure. So swift who can contain it, our rapidity of flight through life, today becomes far… Read More ›

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God is my objective

God is the  meditation of my  heart and  my  inheritance, that I await, long for and  delight in. He is the objective I have set myself, the whole reason for my efforts. He, God himself, is the  inheritance I plan  to bring to a  home of right-ordered love, that  he may sup with me and… Read More ›

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Increased cohabitation rates mean more instability for children

New York City, N.Y., Aug 17, 2011 / 01:31 am (CNA).- Family instability continues to grow in the U.S. despite falling divorce rates for families with children. Researchers say an increase in cohabitation is part of the problem, adding that society’s “retreat from marriage” harms children and has particularly hurt poor and working-class communities. “In… Read More ›

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Finding Home

A friend and I were talking, both about the same age, he 60, I 62, he was voicing his frustration on how he is stuck in certain ways; a man who seeks God, yet unable to move beyond a certain inner barrier, compulsion or sin, well I am not the judge of that.  As he… Read More ›

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