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The Family and The Mystical Body of Christ

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Some days I feel like the entire day is spent encouraging, lecturing, threatening, and punishing kids into applying the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you…When you think about it, families can be composed of individuals who would never choose to live in the same hemisphere, much less in the same home!

October 1, 2019 family, love, marriage, Self-denial, Vicki Burbach, virtue

Sacrifice in the News: Real Love Faces Obstacles – Here’s How One Couple Faces Them

Doctors Told Him to Check His Wife into a Nursing Home; Instead, He Wheeled Her Around the World.

April 20, 2018 family, love, marriage, news

Janusz Korczak: A Hero of the Holocaust

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If you were to walk through the entire cemetery, gazing upon stone after stone after stone, you would find only one engraved with a name. That name, is Janusz Korczak.

April 13, 2018 Heroes, suffering, Vicki Burbach

New Friday Feature – Sacrifice in the News

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Here, at Pelican’s Breast, we believe Friday is the perfect forum to celebrate contemporary stories of sacrifice, some big, some small, all of which which represent Christ and His perfect observance of the two greatest commandments – love of God and love of neighbor.  

April 6, 2018 news, Self-denial, Vicki Burbach

Has Your Child Left the Church? You are not Alone, but Elisabeth Leseur Can Help

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In a recent homily, our parish priest discussed the staggering fact that 80 percent of baptized young people are leaving the Faith before they are 25 years old.

March 20, 2018 family, love, prayer, saints, Vicki Burbach, virtue

The Terrible Beauty of God’s Love

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Despite our complete inadequacy before God, we know that He desires that we open up ourselves in order to give ourselves to Him to the best of our abilities—even if it falls short.  Love requires an openness that makes one vulnerable.

July 10, 2017 love, Rev. Jeff Loseke

Is Your Marriage Lacking a Certain Chemical Element?

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Do you watch all the ads with the lovey dovey smiles and the flirtatious eyes, and try to remember what that felt like? Do you recall the giddiness of being young fresh and so in love that even folding socks together was fun?

February 14, 2017 family, marriage, Self-denial, Vicki Burbach

Guest-Post: Introducing Paula Zwenger

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In marriage, those small blessings we can offer our spouse tend to go a long way. Paula Zwenger captures their beauty in her poem, “This Man of Mine”

February 4, 2017 family, marriage, Paula Zwenger
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