Catholic Watchmen

March 22, 2022

Here we are in the heart of Lent — and March Madness — focusing the Catholic Watchmen’s prayer intentions toward all aspects of leisure. We pray for spiritual guidance to not only retrieve and secure the sanctity of Sundays, but also incorporate recreation and sports to promote healthy participation and competition that contribute to developing the whole person.

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Treasures in heaven nobly at work

February 22, 2022

In earlier days when I really started working in the world, various renditions of “what matters most” and “first things first” themes were quite popular within employer learning and development circles.

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Self-gift comes from the two greatest commandments

January 27, 2022

Loving neighbor as gift of self radiates from the practice of the first and greatest commandment — loving God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. St. Bede, a seventh-century spiritual father and gifted writer, comments how “neither of these two kinds of love is expressed with full maturity without the other, because God cannot be loved apart from our neighbor, nor our neighbor apart from God.”

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Be pro-life pilgrims

December 21, 2021

Mary’s fiat was an essential starting point in fulfilling the new covenant promise, in the fullness of time when God was to become one of us, fulfilling the new covenant in faith, hope and love, all ingrained with mercy and forgiveness.

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Close encounters of the most divine kind

November 23, 2021

In UFO-logy, it takes at least three metrics on the paranormal scale that may perhaps make you a credible source in this field of study. Capture a sighting of an object of unknown origin, provide further evidence of its existence, and then the ultimate — have a personal encounter with it.

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Transformation starts with me

October 27, 2021

As I periodically don one of my favorite and seasoned T-shirts, I am reminded where transformation truly begins — each and every day. The inscription on the back prompts me of what needs to go on the inside of the man wearing it: “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind” (Rom 12:2).

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Men need to pray and lead rosaries

September 22, 2021

Amid the normalcy of Jewish life in the hidden years of our Lord with the Holy Family, the prayer and worship life of Jesus, Mary and Joseph no doubt was as divine as it gets.

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Graces of small group fellowship

August 24, 2021

Christian fellowship is personal, prayerful and active — which is why engaging regularly in fellowship with others in small groups is so powerful. By encouraging each other with a common end in mind — eternal life in friendship with Christ — we work to better imitate Jesus the Good Shepherd in spreading the good news of the Gospels.