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October 10, 2012
October 10, 2012
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The Lessons of Original Sin

Out of everything created in the world by God – the universe, the stars, the sun, the earth, the light, the darkness, the water, the plants, the creatures of sea and land – His greatest creation was man.  Why?  Because He breathed His own spirit into the soul of man.  Man is the only worldly creature that is blessed with an immortal soul.  Like God, man has the ability to think and to love.

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October 6, 2012
October 6, 2012
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The Age of the Woman

One Friday afternoon during my first year in law school (1979), while I was sitting in the law library, a girl who was in one of my classes walked over to me and asked, “What is that book you’re reading?”  She had seen the title of the book, The Woman Shall Conquer, and was wondering what it was about.

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October 3, 2012
October 3, 2012
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Angels – Pure, Created Spirits

One interesting theory that has been written about by some theologians is that God’s original plan did not include the creation of humans.  Instead, His original intention was to populate heaven with angels.  Unfortunately, because of the pride and rebellion of Lucifer and his followers, a conflict arose and Lucifer and his followers were subsequently cast into hell.  According to the theory, it was at that time that God decided to create the human race, with the intention of populating heaven with the exact number of humans needed to replace the fallen angels.  Although it’s an interesting theory, we have no way of knowing whether it’s true.

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September 15, 2012
September 15, 2012
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A Timeless and Changeless God

Although we think and talk a lot about time, most of us never attempt to seek out or discover its true meaning.  What is time?  Can you come up with a simple definition?  The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes time as “the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues.”

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September 5, 2012
September 5, 2012
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Do they have clocks in heaven?

One of the hardest concepts to grasp is that “time” does not exist in heaven.  On earth, from the moment a person is conceived until that person dies, he or she is limited by time and space.  In heaven there are no such limitations.  It’s hard to imagine living in heaven for eternity and never having to mention or be concerned with time.

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August 16, 2012
August 16, 2012
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A Mother and Her Son

In 451 bishops from throughout the Mediterranean traveled to Constantinople for the Council of Chalcedon.  At the council Marcian, the emperor of Constantinople, asked the patriarch of Jerusalem if he would provide the emperor with some relics of Mary, the Mother of God.  The emperor wanted to enshrine the relics in Constantinople.  The patriarch had to explain to the emperor that no such relics existed.

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August 4, 2012
August 4, 2012
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Living a Life of Quality and Personal Leadership

Last month, there was an event that caused me to stop what I was doing and think back to 1989.  That was the year I purchased The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, a book written by Stephen Covey.  The event that caused me to stop and think about Covey’s book was a report on the news that he had passed away.  Covey died on July 16, 2012, at the age of 79.  At the time of his death, he was a professor at the John Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.

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July 28, 2012
July 28, 2012
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Saying Yes To A New Commitment

Fr. David and I periodically meet to discuss the status of the perpetual adoration program at St. Philomena.  At a recent meeting, the topic of my weekly Adoration Letter came up.  We talked about the fact that, on occasion, a parishioner complains about the content of an article or that an opinion expressed in one of the articles may be interpreted by others as the opinion of the staff at St. Philomena.

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December 24, 2011
December 24, 2011
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The Divine Apology

I grew up in the country in a family neighborhood that included seven families.  My grandparents lived next door to my parents, and all of the other families in the neighborhood were made up of my aunts, uncles, and cousins.  One of the uncles was my dad’s brother, Bill Williams.  His house was located next to a wooded area where he would sometimes hunt for rabbits and quail.  Uncle Bill loved hunting so much, he set up a little “gun shop” in his basement where he could re-fill his own shotgun shells.

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