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Feb.02.2010
http://www.ncregister.com/register_exclusives/death_of_a_storyteller/
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Jan.29.2010
Friends at the Theatre.
I asked a friend of mine if she would like to join me for a day at the seashore. She is going through challenging times, and I thought that a change of scenery would be good for both of us. Instead, we decided on a movie, because she wasn’t up to a two-hour...
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Jan.25.2010
"Mother Gives Birth to 18th Child."
A newspaper article about my mother was printed in the Philadelphia Bulletin on October 10th 1958, has been found after fifty-one years. The original copy that our family has is torn and holds no photo. I tried many times to locate...
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Jan.22.2010
“Straight and Level”
One of my favorite short stories is an article written in Air Facts Magazine, in the year of 1971. It’s about a surgeon named Dr. Albert Colley, and the safe landing of his Cherokee airplane on a New Jersey farming field. He ascribed it to his...
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Jan.13.2010
Do you need Me ? I am there.
You cannot see Me, yet I am the light you see by. You cannot hear Me, yet I speak through your voice. You cannot feel Me, yet I am the power at work in your hands.
I am at work, though you do not understand My ways. I am at work, though you do not understand My...
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Jan.13.2010
http://www.sphere.com/world/article/strong-earthquake-hits-haiti/19314305
Prayers.
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Jan.10.2010
Church “To Keep Me”
I hear too many tragic experiences about the Church and not enough of all the good that the priest does for everyone. So, I’d like to share something wonderful that the Church has done for me:
I went to public school and didn’t spend as much time in...
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Jan.08.2010
My Work: “Inn of Our Own”
New Years Eve, my husband and I watched the film ‘Invictus’: The true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team, to help unite their country. I mentioned to my husband that I felt that I have a...
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Dec.31.2009
Remember the Way
Twenty years ago, a very close friend of mine told me that she was leaving her marriage. She was very unhappy. She was married to a wonderful man, had a beautiful child, a promising future, and it was all the happiness that I could...
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Dec.27.2009
I hope to explain this the best as I have witnessed in my own family:
My nurturing mother was always ready to help the needy. She was my prime example, or the innocent victim with good intentions that didn’t see any harm that could ever come from doing a good deed. She had...
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Dec.24.2009
One Christmas
Christmas shone as bright as white with caroling and angels that lit the way for toys, joys, and presents that were sure to come. However, that was before the darkest night covered the fluffy white snow to a bone chill and iciest Christmas of all. It was the...
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Dec.22.2009
"MARY" CHRISTMAS
"All ages to come shall call me blessed." —Luke 1:48
The archangel Gabriel announced to Mary: "Rejoice, O highly favored daughter! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women" (Lk 1:28). Elizabeth prophesied and echoed the angel Gabriel's...
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Dec.20.2009
Until We Decide With His Joy.
My mother used to say to us that we could always get another husband, but we can never get another mother.
To me, there was no mother in the world greater than mine. That’s not to say that some of my siblings (at a time) felt as...
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Dec.20.2009
Joy is the true gift of Christmas, not the expensive gifts that call for time and money....Let us pray that this presence of the liberating joy of God shines forth in our lives.
- Pope Benedict XVI
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Dec.19.2009
Best Gift Book
The Shack by Robert P. Young, is a wonderful treasure and keepsake. It is written with the heart of love and great sadness that resonate and captivate the reader on every page. Regardless of where we have been on our spiritual journey, the influences touch...
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For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says
the Lord. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are My ways above
your ways and My thoughts above your thoughts.
”
—Isaiah 55: 8-9
About Catherine
Catherine Nagle grew up in Philadelphia with
16 brothers and sisters, reared by loving, old-school
Italian parents. Catherine’s artist father’s
works graced locations from churches to public
buildings; her mother was a full-time homemaker.
A professional...
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Causes Catherine Nagle Supports
Church, Single Parents, Orphans, The Homeless, The emotional and physical health care and rights of children.
Catherine’s Favorite Books
The Bible, A Course in Miracles, Return to Love, Felicity & Barbara Pym, The Human Person, Sermon on the Mount , My Daily Bread, God Calling, and many many...
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