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Pastoral Pearls: Be so happy ...

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Be so happy that when other look at you they become happy. I found this in my Doctor’s examining room, and it spoke to me! I like to be a happy person. I see how that affects the people around me and it makes me all warm inside. But this assumes there are degrees of happiness &ndash...

Pastoral Pearls: Keep asking

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Human beings are never going to be perfect. The best we can do is to keeping asking for help and accepting when you can. And if you keep on doing that, you’ll always be moving toward better.  ~ Leslie Higgins  I am always amazed where I find words of wisdom. Often where I least...

Pastoral Pearls: Confront Your Fears

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Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it. ~ Judy Blume I had a little time to myself these last two weeks, which really...

Pastoral Pearls: We have to feel to heal

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I heard a wonderful and simple phrase that makes so much sense to me. We have to feel, to heal. Why do I like that so much? I really like that because it speaks to me and anyone who has perhaps grown up with messages or old tapes that keep running in our heads that have made life hard for...

Pastoral Pearls: World Caring Day

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Love God, & Love Your Neighbor (Mark 12) and Wednesday, June 7 is World Caring Day I was looking at National Days again, and at Daily Readings for Thursday, from the USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops). I was amazed to find that these complimented one another! The...

Pastoral Pearls: Every summer has a story...

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June always makes me feel that summertime is finally real. It brings a newness with it – a sense of possibility – a feeling of really being alive! What a wonderful extension of our call to be joyous and active “Easter People” – people of the resurrection! Jesus...

Pastoral Pearls: Cultural Diversity

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Today is National Cultural Diversity Day. “We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity, life would be very boring.”  ~ Catherine Pulsifer I love the feeling of being unique, one of a kind, a special creation from God. I also am so...

Pastoral Pearls: the Hands of God

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"The Hands of God are so often found at the ends of our very own arms.”  ~ Sr. Monica Joan, from the television series “Call the Midwives” I love this series (found on Netflix). If you haven’t seen it, Sr. Monica Joan is the elderly Nun who is having some memory...

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