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Thomas Aquinas' Sacrifice for Christ
In Naples, Thomas [Aquinas] possessed his own residence, his own retinue, and a host of servants. With plumes and flowing silks, he took up riding on ...
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Self-Centered Life Is Prison
Those people who pray know what most around them either don't know or choose to ignore: centering life in the insatiable demands of the ego is the ...
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Enron Employee Loses Big but Feels Set Free
The May 2002 issue of Fast Company tells the stories of five people who worked for Enron, the company that in 2001 filed for the largest bankruptcy in ...
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Becoming a Slave to Save
During the nineteenth century a group of missionaries in what is now Surinam in South America, wanted to reach the inhabitants of a nearby island with ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas's Devotion
In St. Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton describes the early life of the brilliant medieval theologian. Thomas was born into a wealthy, aristocratic family, ...
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Facing Persecution for Righteousness
George Galatis was an engineer at Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford, Connecticut, when he discovered something was wrong. Spent fuel-rod pools ...
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Marriage: Great Way to Die
In Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, author D. J. Waldie observes that the biggest drawback to living alone is having nobody to forgive. It is not that you ...
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Saved from Ourselves
Christ died to save us, not from suffering, but from ourselves; not from injustice, far less from justice, but from being unjust. He died that we might ...
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First You Must Be Nothing
God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
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Discipleship Means Joy
If we answer the call to discipleship, where will it lead us? What decisions and partings will it demand? To answer this question we shall have to go ...
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