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Attention to Him

“…and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:20 Mass had just ended, and I stepped into the narthex.  I was quickly approached […]

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A Year of Fasting

On Ash Wednesday, March 6, 2019, I began a fasting process in which once a week, I would fast from all but water from one meal on a particular day […]

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Catholic Beliefs & Self-Sacrifice

Have you ever noticed that there is a simple predictor of just which beliefs and practices we as Catholics will embrace? To explain what I mean, let us first consider […]

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The Self-Control Expenditure

A 4-year-old girl stares at the marshmallow. It looks really good. But the man who is in charge told her that if she waits until he returns, she can have […]

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Parenting

The Most Important Skill Parents Can Teach

A four year old boy sits alone at the table. On it sits a large marshmallow. Minutes earlier, the experimenter told the boy that he had to leave the room. […]

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Parenting

Having It All Without Having It All: Five Part Series on Self-Control

Having It All Without Having it All, Part I: The Remarkable Science behind Self-Control. In the early 1960’s, Walter Mischel and his colleagues began with a simple idea. They developed […]

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America the Beautiful: Reconsidering the American Dream

Every so often I hear a song that I have heard countless times before only to suddenly realize that the familiar words have new meaning. It happened the other day […]

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