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New story & photo from #Rome: instagram.com/p/BDhYbI6heaN/

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Rest in Peace Mother Angleica. Pray for us from Heaven above. A fitting day for you to go home, Easter Sunday.

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"All my salvation and joy are in You, O Crucified Christ, and in whatever state I happen to be, I shall never take my eyes away from Your Cross" - St. Angela of Foligno

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The snow beckons many to the high alpine in Colorado. The cold of the desolate mountains evokes a calm, a peace, “a moment in time” that urban centers cannot match. The communal aspect of skiing and snowboarding is like heaven on earth at the 10th Mountain Division Huts. Watch the video to see what Father Mike Rapp has to say about skiing on clouds! Hope lives in the mountains, and in the hearts of a Eucharistic community of a up hill skiers.

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"Courage comes from knowing God... Be decisive, and take courage." -Fr. Ignatius, Cistercian monk for over 70 years

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Heart of Jesus my true friend make me faithful to the end.

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Hope Lives.

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“I’m going to mess this up, but I tried explaining this to someone the other day using a quote from Pope Francis. As a writer, artist and manager for a Catholic blog, ‘I prefer a church that is dirty and bruised and on the streets, versus one that is suffocated unto itself.’ We’re too comfortable being prim and proper. What I want is to open a bridge to the world. I want to meet those on the periphery by speaking a language everyone can understand. We aren’t going to do that by turning up our noses to the hard-to-talk-about issues people are facing today. I want to talk about the things people don’t want to talk about. My philosophy is ‘to disturb the comfortable, and comfort the disturbed.’”

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"I was eleven years old when my father was killed, and justice was not served because we were poor and the murderers were from an influential group. That was when hatred came into my life. As this hatred grew, I enrolled in the college of law because I wanted justice. I joined the Focolare, an Ecclesial Movement, who strives to put into practice the word of God in their daily lives. I then became addicted to this new drug, and it is called: LOVE. I found the essence and true meaning of my life for the first time and that Jesus in the Eucharist was the source of it all. I found how to live Jesus’s word concretely when He said: “Love your enemy”. One day when I was at work, I had met by chance the leader of the group that had killed my father. I spontaneously greeted him with a smile and asked him how his family was doing. And I felt in my heart that the hatred slowly transformed into love. I continued to visit them in their home and tried building this rapport by showing how much God loves them. And it came to a point where a member of those who had killed my father asked for forgiveness for what he had done and in turn he asked for prayers for his family and his health. I knew clearly this experience of forgiveness and healing was the transforming power of Jesus in the Eucharist." #Eucharist #phillipines #Justice #Forgiveness #HopeLives #IEC2016 #

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"This has been a great experience. I wouldn't trade it for the world. The homeless surprise me. I'm amazed all the time by how resilient they are. They're all good people. I wish the whole world knew what the homeless were really like. But they're stereotyped. There are some bad apples but 99% are really great. I would like to work here forever. Maybe if there's a homeless shelter in heaven God will make me the Chaplain. That'd be a lot of people. But I could do it."

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"I had a nervous breakdown and spent nine months in a mental hospital. After 15 years of suicidal depression, I traveled to Medjugorje where I overcame my mental sickness. While there, I had a vivid dream with St. Joseph, the Blessed Mother, and the little baby Jesus. In the dream, baby Jesus came to me out of the tabernacle and held his heart out to me; just like the image shows. That's why I carry this picture, because that's how He appeared to me. That's how He saved my life." - Peter #HopeLives #babyJesus #Yearofmercy #depression #suicide #Eucharist #SaintJoseph *** OBS stands with the Church's position (June 2015) on the status of Medjugorje as a place of prayer and devotion that can be visited by pilgrims for prayer, but not as a site of apparitions from the Blessed Virgin Mary; the CDF is still investigating & discerning Medjugorje (January 2016)

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(2/2) "After college I was offered a position as a youth minister. I wasn't sure I wanted it to be my career, but, I wanted to follow Christ wholeheartedly and it seemed like He was opening the door for me. It's been 4 years and I'm still doing it. I've thought about quitting a couple times. The church is messy and it's not like you get paid that much (I could barely afford these boots (see 1st post)) And sometimes my pride makes me want to quit so I can have a more "successful" job. But, at the end of the day - all I care about is telling people about this Jesus I've met, and so I'll keep doing it as long as he asks me to. So long as I can keep the boots." #bootseason #fashionpost #youthministry #HopeLives #givingheart

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(2/2) "After college I was offered a position as a youth minister. I wasn't sure I wanted it to be my career, but, I wanted to follow Christ wholeheartedly and it seemed like He was opening the door for me. It's been 4 years and I'm still doing it. I've thought about quitting a couple times. The church is messy and it's not like you get paid that much (I could barely afford these boots (see 1st post)) And sometimes my pride makes me want to quit so I can have a more "successful" job. But, at the end of the day - all I care about is telling people about this Jesus I've met, and so I'll keep doing it as long as he asks me to. So long as I can keep the boots." #bootseason #fashionpost #youthministry #HopeLives #givingheart

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(1/2) "These are new boots. In college we used to make fun of the sorority girls and how excited they got about boot season. But, truth be told - I was in a sorority, and I really do love boot season too. I'm not ashamed to say it. In college, while I was in that sorority, a light-switch turned on for me about the faith. All of the sudden, it made so much sense to me, and I couldn't get enough. I wanted to give my whole life to this man, to this Jesus, I had come to know." #bootseason #HopeLives #sororitylife #collegegirl

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"Joy is the serious business of heaven." - C.S. Lewis

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Nothing is free in this world, except the grace of God.