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	<title>For The Love Of Christ &#187; Church Life</title>
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		<title>Another Mary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a most unusual start to Advent.  I spent most of the day venerating a 1st class relic of St. Mary Magdalene which was on exposition at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, GA.  This is only the second time the relic has ever left France and its first trip to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stfrancisgirl.wordpress.com&blog=4054225&post=780&subd=stfrancisgirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Full Circle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a very busy couple of weeks for me.   My Secular Franciscan fraternity and friars of my parish were planning and preparing our celebration of the Transitus of St. Francis.  It was the most solemn celebration I can recall in recent memory.  As part of our service, we had six characters who encountered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stfrancisgirl.wordpress.com&blog=4054225&post=757&subd=stfrancisgirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love Has Come</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve still been thinking about Rich Mullins and the quote that I used in my last article.
&#8220;&#8230; My openness to Catholicism was very scary to me because, when you grow up in a church where they don’t even put up a cross, many things were foreign to me.” &#8212; — Rich Mullins:  An Arrow Pointing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stfrancisgirl.wordpress.com&blog=4054225&post=705&subd=stfrancisgirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hands that Serve</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, June 27, 2009, I had the privilege to attend the ordination of eight men to the priesthood.  On Sunday, June 28, 2009, I had the joy of attending a friend&#8217;s first mass &#8211; his Mass of Thanksgiving.   It is such a blessing to have the ordination coincide with the Year for Priests.  There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stfrancisgirl.wordpress.com&blog=4054225&post=693&subd=stfrancisgirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus Freak Sundays</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to write on something totally different today&#8211;until I got in my car after Mass this morning.  My rosary CD started skipping so I popped it out of my player &#8212; just needs cleaning.  Oh what to fill in slot 6 of my 6 CD player &#8212; I scanned the other CDs in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stfrancisgirl.wordpress.com&blog=4054225&post=665&subd=stfrancisgirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Day of Prayer for Vocations and the Elijah Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 01:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I looked ahead at our Elijah Cup schedule and saw that the May 3rd 9:00 Mass was still open.  Perfect.  Nothing better than bringing the Elijah Cup home on the Sunday designated as the World Day of Prayer for Vocations.  In the many years my parish has participated in the Elijah [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stfrancisgirl.wordpress.com&blog=4054225&post=644&subd=stfrancisgirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10th Catholic Anniversary Reflections</title>
		<link>http://stfrancisgirl.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/10th-catholic-anniversary-reflections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I have not blogged since Easter Sunday.  I&#8217;ve had a lot of time to reflect over the last ten years &#8212; I&#8217;ve been Catholic now for ten years.  I&#8217;ve not been disappointed, or ever doubted my calling &#8212; the way in which I ran into the arms of the Roman Catholic Church.  There is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stfrancisgirl.wordpress.com&blog=4054225&post=634&subd=stfrancisgirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fr. Leo on Fox and Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fr. Leo Patalinghug, author of  the Grace Before Meals cookbook, appeared on Fox and Friends this morning.  Just a quick post to share a link to the official Fox video of the segment.  Pray for Fr. Leo for the chance to have his own TV cooking show.  It&#8217;s more than just cooking&#8230;. it is food for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stfrancisgirl.wordpress.com&blog=4054225&post=571&subd=stfrancisgirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ash Wednesday Reflection</title>
		<link>http://stfrancisgirl.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/ash-wednesday-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I am forgotten, out of mind like the dead;
I am like a shattered dish.
Psalm 31:13
 
 
A pot lies broken in the sand.  It is discarded—scattered pieces with jagged edges strewn without care.  The Master comes upon them—40 days gone by—returning from prayer.  He bends to examine the broken pieces and begins to pick them up.  One [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stfrancisgirl.wordpress.com&blog=4054225&post=461&subd=stfrancisgirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lamb of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflection on the readings for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time &#8212; USCCB (NAB) Reference  The selected OCIA theme of the day is that of Vocation.  Sharing some of the reflecting and note taking I did in preparation for OCIA.
In the first reading, we have Samuel who was called by God in his youth.  Samuel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stfrancisgirl.wordpress.com&blog=4054225&post=436&subd=stfrancisgirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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