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Christ is risen… Alleluia. He is truly risen… Alleluia! Hello and blessings once again. The theme that’s in my heart (again) is how this season leads many of us (well me at least – and a few others …
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March 2009 Column for www.Catholicfamilypodcast.com Hello Catholic Family members. Lenten blessings and ‘can’t we go get a coffee and a piece of peach pie somewhere?’ Greetings. If you are using many …
(SQPN) CATHOLIC FAMILY EXERCISE Hello dear members of the Catholic Family Podcast Family. And from what I see and hear – many of you are also members of the greater SQPN Family: listening to other …
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The FOUR LAST THINGS: Prepared for Friends of Catholic Family Podcast I don’t want to end the year on a heavy-duty note. But I’ve prepared an end-of-year reflection for my own website …
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Although my wife and I are now in Arizona – we used to live in Colorado and I received deacon formation at the John Paul II Center for the New Evangelization in Denver. In the campus chapel was this …
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Make no mistake… Deacon Tom does appreciate beauty! The beauty of the Mass and Eucharist… the beauty of God’s creation… and all too humanly I’ll add… the beauty of God’s creation of the opposite …
Recently, I had the honor — the pleasure to again join with Protestant pastors in the area where I live. I joined with them for prayer-before-breakfast, followed by a book-sharing discussion. …
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(Even With Those We Disagree With) Hi Catholic Family… Blessings of August and the twilight of the summer of 2008! Can you believe that in the Arizona town where we live, the schools started on …
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Dear friends of the Catholic Family Podcasts: Blessings of these mid-summer days. May the Lord bless you all… and in a human way of wishing you well – may your air conditioning never fail and may your …
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Catholic Family Chaplain www.deacontomonline.com Hello and blessings! By the time you read this, your Catholic Family deacon will be on the road to re-creation. That’s what the Servant of God …
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