Mary’s Confusion I always found it interesting when reading how Mary and Joseph were confused by Jesus’ childhood behavior. They were confused by Simeon’s prophecy during Jesus’ presentation (4th Joyful Mystery) at the temple as well as when they found Jesus after losing him for three days (5th Joyful Mystery). I chuckle slightly because Mary […]
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Statistics Don’t Lie Let’s take a look at the results from a recent Gallop survey about morals in America. Overall, only 15% of those surveyed said American morals values are good to excellent. Now, I would really like to meet those who said that. How low are their expectations to think our society is excelling
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Stay Humble Let’s take a break from current events and return to a more classic RosaryMeds post — an actual Rosary meditation. As we enter Advent and the Christmas season, I want to give some of my ideas of the First Joyful Mystery and its fruit, humility. In the Annunciation, Mary’s humility is exemplified in
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The Empty Pew Pandemic Within the last week, I came across these articles about changing church attendance patterns and religious practices. These articles sadden me greatly because so many people have made their lives sadder and harder because they’ve de-prioritized practicing their faith. We need to learn from Mary and the saints’ examples that our
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Today, March 25, 2023, we celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation. This is the First Joyful Mystery of the Holy Rosary whose fruit is Humility. May we all imitate Mary and humbly say “YES!” to God’s plan for us.
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The Right Stuff For those who don’t know, I’m a big fan of movies and television. I worked in visual effects and feature animation for close to 20 years. It’s almost a family business as I have ancestors that worked both in front of and behind the camera throughout the 20th century. I’m going to
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I recently read We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess by Daniel Akst. He explores the cultural shifts in our views around self-control. This is a secular book so you won’t see much on Church teaching except some implicit connections that those who are religious tend to exercise more self-control. Nor
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Poor Saint Thomas. I always felt like he got a bad wrap being forever known as Doubting Thomas. All the apostles had their faults, but Saint Thomas and Saint Peter’s are probably the best known along with Judas Iscariot. How unfortunate that his moment of weakness came to define him. He’s like the kid at
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A Charlie Brown Christmas As we go into the third week of Advent, I think many of us start to feel a little fatigued and anxious. Some of you may be wrapping up a marathon of shopping, decorating, and attending various events. Others may feel stressed out because you haven’t done much preparation and feel
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Leaders of a Defiant People What comes to mind when you think about the Pharisees in the Bible? Hypocrites? Dogmatic? Unfair? You probably conjure images of Jesus “knocking them down a peg” when he answers their “gotcha” questions. Needless to say, the Christian view of the Pharisees isn’t the most flattering. But maybe we’re being
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