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Catholic Writers- How To Avoid Being Dead Right

Decades ago, I read an insight by Jean Vanier, a Canadian Catholic philosopher and theologian, “You can be right. You can be dead right and bring death to everyone around you”. These words stripped bare my arrogance, profoundly affecting the way I expressed my faith to others and especially the way I wrote about the Catholic faith. Writers Wield Power

Words have power, a terrifying power…

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#Catholic articles #writing about faith

Palm Sunday: God is in Charge The Gospel reading for Palm Sunday is riveting (Matthew 26:14—27:66); it moves us through a gamut of emotions as we picture crowds adoring Christ as He enters Jerusalem, witness the Last Supper, watch Judas betray his friend, Peter deny his Lord, the trials, the crowds now roaring for Jesus’s death, and the agony of the crucifixion.

#Melanie Jean Juneau #Palm Sunday #serving God

Looking Death In The Eye

Exactly six years ago, I finally became cognizant of how thin the line between life and death really is when I nearly lost one of my daughters as she struggled to give birth. During labour, she almost bled out when she lost a litre of blood in mere seconds after an emergency C-section, the result of a series of unforeseen complications, a one-in-ten-thousand chance.

Of course, in a…

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#Melanie Jean Juneau #redemptive suffering #suffering #useless suffering

Melanie Jean Juneau recounts the story of how a friend learned to surrender to God, to live in the Light.

#surrender

The Negative Reactions to Pope Francis

Every time Pope Francis speaks, the papers are filled with sensational headlines; he does not emphasize many of the popular, hot issues like abortion and homosexuality, issues which often simply serve to divide voters into an us and them mentality. When did these issues become the onlyissue that concerns the Church? Yet when the pope reminds us that our life in Christ is so much more, vocal…

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I Live With Mysteries

i live with mysteries now, content

because…

i am small

finite,

living in linear time

on a flat plane of existence.

Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor? Romans 11:34

i wear dark coloured glasses with blinders while.

peering at the world as if i were the centre of the universe.

who am i to complain loudly at the perceived injustices of God,

the Holy Immortal…

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#Melanie Jean Juneau #our relationship to God

Trusting and Resting in the Tradition of the Church

As a young university student who was looking into the Catholic Church, I was confused because I had been taught to believe God’s revelations were confined to the Bible. I was surprised to learn the Bible itself urges us to follow oral traditions:

So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us. (2 Thessalonians 2:15)

S…

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#conversion #Mary #tradition

A Knight in Shining Armour

Do you find yourself waiting secretly for your knight in shining armour to whisk you off your feet so you can live happily ever after? Or for a wonderful woman to lift off your depression and sense of aimlessness?

Although we laugh at such ridiculous fantasies as the stuff of naïve, lovesick teenagers, we all must face the deep temptation within ourselves to seek out a future partner to fulfil…

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#Melanie Jean Juneau #romantic love #selfless love

Justice Clarence Thomas' recent opinion at the Supreme Court tied abortion to eugenics and brought the abortion debate into a whole new realm.

#supreme court

Pope Francis: A Canary in a Coal Mine

Pope Francis is like a canary in the coal mine, identifying toxic trends in our society, then, offering hope as he suggests Christian solutions to family issues.

The expression “a canary in the coal mine” refers to caged canaries miners would bring with them into mine tunnels. These birds were used in Britain right up until 1999 as a way to warn miners if gases like carbon monoxide collected in…

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#early warnings of toxic trends #Melanie Jean Juneau #Pope Francis

Melanie Jean Juneau explores how Pope Francis has addressed our apathy on moral issues.

#pope francis

In the struggle to match socks for her nine children, Melanie Jean Juneau found a parallel to the spiritual life.

#surrender

Jesus is a Baby Whisperer

The best way to communicate with preverbal little people is to connect with their inner spirits, in with, and through God, because Jesus was an infant. Only I do not think He ever forgot what it was like to be a preverbal little being. When we approach babies in the presence of the Holy Spirit, with Jesus and His gentle spirit, we can learn to be baby whisperers. Horse whisperers read a horse’s…

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#communicating with babies #Melanie Jean Juneau #preverbal babies are not idiots

Patron Saint of Missing Socks, Pray For Us

As a mother of a large family, struggling to wash, dry, and fold three or four loads of laundry every day, I secretly wondered if there was an obscure saint, with little to do, who could fill in as my patron saint of missing socks. Little did I know, God was using the dilemma of unpaired socks to purify me because I was trying too hard to be the perfect mother and housekeeper.

This earnest…

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#humourous #Melanie Jean Juneau #pairing socks for a large family

Boredom is the Birthplace of Creativity

For centuries, children around the world have flopped down on the grass to watch an ant or stare up at the clouds. This is not a waste of time when we consider the fact that God also needs space and time and silence to speak into our children’s lives. If we keep them in a constant cycle of enriching activities so will snatch a place in the best pre-school and in the best university will they have…

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#Boredom #children need free time #nurturing spirituality

Our Biggest Delusion is Rooted in Our Ego

I am living in a fantastical delusion when I see myself as the center of the universe, viewing everything as it circles around me. As believers, we sing and recite prayers that proclaim that God is the centre of all but our psychological make-up screams the exact opposite. I view people, events, history and yes even God through my eyes, judging what is right, trusting my thoughts and my…

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#delusion #ego #God centred #Melanie Jean Juneau

Everyday Heroes

Everyday Heroes, written by the Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, David Naglieri, is a welcome antidote to the barrage of bad news which assaults us all day long. This documentary balances the prevailing dark view of humanity by focusing on the lives of fourteen ordinary men whose deep faith in God motivates them to love and serve selflessly. In the opening segment of the documentary, Carl Anderson,…

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#David Naglieri #Everyday Heroes #Knights of Columbus #movie review

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