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Archives for December 2009

Keep Christmas in Your Heart: Let Us Watch This Night

December 29, 2009 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Merry Christmas

The shepherds were considered a lowly people. It is Luke’s theme that the lowly are singled out as recipients of God’s blessings and favors. We may be tillers of the soil whose labors are deeply inscribed upon our hands, or we may reside in office buildings in the performance of our work, but it is the humble who receive God’s blessings.

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Advent: A Time of Hope

December 15, 2009 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Advent is a season to grow closer to Jesus

Whatever bothersome issue is at hand, all will soon pass away as smoke on the wind; what seems so looming now is, in reality, but only an insignificant wisp of discomfort. The Christ Child is coming!

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Is Religious Freedom Correctly Understood?

December 10, 2009 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

America and Freedom

We live in a nation where religious freedom is a reality, but are the benefits of this freedom adequately understood? Further, is this freedom used correctly?

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Jesus Christ meets the man of every age, including our own, with the same words: “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” These words contain both a fundamental requirement and a warning: the requirement of an honest relationship with regard to truth as a condition for authentic freedom, and the warning to avoid every kind of illusory freedom, every superficial unilateral freedom, every freedom that fails to enter into the whole truth about man and the world.  (Redemptor Hominis No. 12)

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