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		<title>6th Sunday of Easter &#8211; Cycle A – May 29,2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Kevin Boucher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acts 8:14-17; 1 Peter 3:15-18; John 14:15-21 Have you ever been given a gift too complicated for you to use?  Unless we read the instructions or someone takes time with us to explain how to use the gift, it may just stay in our closet for years in an unopened box. Unfortunately that is the very case with many Catholics who do not practice their faith. They have been given the gift of membership in the Catholic Church as infants. They know they are Catholics, but they don&#8217;t know what that means. Unless they take the initiative to read something about their faith, or unless someone takes the time to sit down and explain it to them, the gift of faith remains largely &#8220;unopened.&#8221; Kabir, a fifteenth-century poet in India, gives us a key to opening the gift of faith: &#8220;He understands who loves.&#8221;  This poet was saying that we can come to understand another person if we first love that person.  The same principle applies to our relationship with God.  If we truly want a relationship with God, we must first love God.  If we desire to love God, we begin asking ourselves why we should love God.  To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come Home for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Steffan</dc:creator>
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		<title>World AIDS Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy Schwinden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 1st is World AIDS Day, a day to remember those who have died from AIDS, those who carry the burden of AIDS or HIV and their families, and those who work to prevent the spread of this disease. One of the most involved and compassionate groups is Catholic Relief Services, who share the following facts with us: Quick Facts UNAIDS estimates that 33.2 million people globally are living with HIV. This number includes an estimated 2.5 million children under the age of 15 years. The number of people receiving antiretroviral therapy in low- and middle-income countries has increased tenfold since the end of 2001, almost to 3 million. However, only 31 percent of people in need of treatment are currently receiving it. Worldwide the Catholic Church provides care for one out of every four people living with HIV. (Source: Caritas Internationalis) Catholic Relief Services began supporting its first HIV project in Bangkok, Thailand in 1986. In 2007, we directly served more than 4 million people. Through the AIDSRelief Project, CRS helps provide lifesaving antiretroviral therapy to more than 132,000 people living with HIV in nine countries; more than 100,000 are children. An additional 216,000 people who do not yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>28th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Cycle C – October 10, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Kevin Boucher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2 Kings 5:14-17; 2 Timothy 2:8-13; Luke 17:11-19 Leprosy is an extremely painful and highly communicable disease.  The sores and open wounds of this illness can grow to the extreme that the one infected could even lose fingers and toes.  In addition to the physical pain is the emotional pain of loneliness that one endures.  For, at the time of Christ, those who contracted leprosy were forced away from their homes and their communities, lest they infect others. Many banded together and lived in communes away from the rest of society.  It was probably one such group that came to Jesus that day.  Keeping their distance, due to the disease, they cried out for his mercy.  Jesus, moved with compassion, sent them to the priests so that they could be declared clean.  On the way, they were healed. Nine did not return to Jesus.  Where they went, the scriptures are silent.  But you can guess that many of them probably returned to their communities and their families.  Having been cured of this illness they were reunited with those they loved.  What a great blessing this must have been.  Not only were they physically healed, they also were given back their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Are the Catholic Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 13:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Steffan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Friends at work say they don&#8217;t need religion because they are good people. How should I respond? Good is the politically correct thing for people to say about themselves. But what does &#8220;good&#8221; mean? To measure goodness, you need some criteria and it usually comes down to a general sense of keeping the law, not intentionally harming anyone, and trying to be a tolerant (good) neighbor. These values are arbitrary and we judge our behaviors and ourselves based on what we interpret to be good. But as believers in Christ, we are not called to be good people! We are called to be holy people. And there is a difference. When we strive to be holy, we are measuring ourselves by the message and the model of Christ. Our call is to imitate Christ, to become his body, to carry on his mission and his work. For us, it is more important to be holy than to be good. When we measure holiness, it is not arbitrary. We measure ourselves against Christ himself. Goodness really depends upon my own perspective, how I choose to measure it. Holiness depends on Christ&#8217;s perspective. In the church, we learn and practice holiness. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Meant to Walk Alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 17:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Steffan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top 10 Reasons to Come Back No matter how long you have been away from the Catholic Church, you can always come home. You can start going to Mass again (find a parish) and become a part of a parish community that is ready to welcome you with open arms. God is inviting you to dive into your faith in a deeper way than you ever have before. You may already be feeling a strange inner pull to look into the Church again. That spiritual longing you feel is God drawing you back to Himself. God never forces; He only invites. He leaves the decision to return to the Catholic Church up to you. There are numerous reasons for coming back to the Church. Though Christ is at the heart of the many reasons to come home to the Church, each individual’s experience in returning can be unique, depending upon whatever speaks to his or her heart. Here are ten reasons (by Lorene Hanley Duqin of Our Sunday Visitor: http://www.osv.com and edited by Catholics Come Home) that influenced the decision of many of us to return to the practice of the Catholic faith: Number 10: Because we want meaning in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pillow of the Church?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy Schwinden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be a pillow of the Church? This message might make you think of an old Saturday Night Live routine about a character who never quite correctly heard what was said. “What’s this I hear about a pillow of the Church? Oh, pillar of the Church. Never mind…” But this is intentional. We’ve all heard of referring to some as “pillars of the Church” – a compliment offered about those who are upstanding, strong and “holding up the structure.” But upon careful analysis of the image, it doesn’t seem to be very warm or flexible. As with all symbolic language, it is both enriching and limited at the same time. The image of “pillow of the Church” is quite different. It is supportive of the structure, but in a softer and gentler way. Pillows can represent comfort, nurturing and intimacy – an insightful image for how we want to help the women and children currently staying at the YWCA Emergency Shelter. Our Thanksgiving collection this year will be given to the YWCA Shelter. It has been a challenging time as they have tried to meet the needs of the many, many women and children who have needed shelter there this fall. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13th Sunday of the Year – Cycle B – June 28, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Kevin Boucher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Our Church in America has always had a major role in healthcare.  Today 1 out of every 6 Americans receives healthcare in Catholic Institutions.  Because of this the U.S. Bishops have called us to work to bring about the reform of our present healthcare system in America.  To help us in our discussion the Bishops have provided the following basic principles by which we should measure any public policy that is being proposed.[2] At the top of the list is the basic respect for human life.]]></description>
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