Looking for Affordable Housing? Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity is now taking applications for 2011 Habitat Homes in Cass and Clay counties. General requirements include family need, ability to pay the monthly mortgage payments, willingness to complete sweat equity hours, and attendance at one of the Orientation Sessions scheduled for mid-July or early August....
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Some people say that living together before marriage helps you be more certain that a couple will get along when they are married. It seems logical, but my parents and priest do not approve. Wouldn’t marriages be better if couples lived together before they married? It might seem logical but actually living together before...
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Isaiah 66:10-14; Galatians 6:14-18; Luke 10:1-12,17-20 For many years I traveled to the Canadian Rockies of Western Alberta, Canada.  Unlike the disciples in today’s gospel I did not travel so lightly.  I brought with me my camping gear, a tent, sleeping bag, food, clothing, maps, prayer books, and my copy of the Woodall’s Camping...
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Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.” – Jn 20:28-29 Excerpts from the Lectionary for Mass ©2001, 1998, 1970 CCD Used with permission
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I recently received the following letter from the President of Catholic Relief Services: Dear Friend, As we commemorate our nation’s independence and its values of liberty and justice for all, it is a shocking fact that slavery and human trafficking have been experiencing a dramatic resurgence in recent years. Trafficking in persons is the...
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