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"For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both...
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margaret kozak
Mar 28, 20235 min read
Welcome to Holy Week
Holy Week is the most important week in the Church's year. It is a time when we celebrate the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. We...
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margaret kozak
Mar 28, 20231 min read
The Nicene & Apostles Creed:
I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus...
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margaret kozak
Mar 28, 20235 min read
The Sacrament of Penance
Penance is an experience of the gift of God's boundless mercy. It frees us from our sins but it also challenges us to have the same kind...
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margaret kozak
Mar 7, 20235 min read
What are Scrutinies?
On the third, fourth, and fifth Sundays of Lent, the newly named “Elect” participate in three successive rites called “the Scrutinies.”...
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margaret kozak
Feb 22, 20233 min read
Welcome to Lent
Start with Ash Wednesday Invite Us Deeper Almighty and ever living God, you invite us deeper into your world, your people, your Lent. May...
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margaret kozak
Feb 20, 20233 min read
Second Step: Rite of Sending & Rite of Election
Rite of Sending, and Rite of Election and/or Call to Continuing Conversion When people are ready to enter the Church, they begin a period...
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margaret kozak
Feb 20, 20237 min read
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:5-15 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the...
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margaret kozak
Feb 20, 20234 min read
Baptism & Confirmation
USCCB Baptism The Sacrament of Baptism: Gateway to New Life What does the Grace of Baptism accomplish? Baptism does five things...
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margaret kozak
Jan 20, 20233 min read
A Catholic Moral Vision: Virtue, Grace & ...Happiness
Christian, recognize your dignity and, now that you share in God’s own nature, do not return to your former base condition by sinning....
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margaret kozak
Jan 20, 20232 min read
Holy Matrimony & Holy Orders: Service & Communion
More than merely a contract between two people in love, marriage was created by God as part of his plan for humanity. How we fit within...
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margaret kozak
Jan 6, 20235 min read
The Holy Trinity
“The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is...
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margaret kozak
Dec 6, 20225 min read
The Eucharist
Symbolon: Pt 2: Session 2: The Eucharist: Source & Summit of Christian Life It looks like bread and wine, yet it is called the Real...
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margaret kozak
Nov 29, 20222 min read
First Step: Rite of Acceptance & Rite of Welcome
First Step: Rite of Acceptance & Welcome
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margaret kozak
Nov 15, 20222 min read
The Four Last Things: Eschatology
The Theology of What happens after we die? Symbolon Session 10: The Last Things: What Happens After We Die? What does the Church really...
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margaret kozak
Nov 15, 20221 min read
The 7 Sacraments
We recognize that the Sacraments have a visible and invisible reality, a reality open to all the human senses but grasped in its...
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margaret kozak
Nov 1, 20221 min read
All Hallows Eve (Halloween), All Saints Day & All Souls Day
All Saints Day is a Holy Day of Obligation - Catholic Holy Days of Obligation are the days on which the faithful are obliged to...
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margaret kozak
Oct 25, 20221 min read
Paschal Mystery
"The Paschal mystery of Christ's cross and Resurrection stands at the center of the Good News that the apostles, and the Church following...
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margaret kozak
Oct 20, 20221 min read
Why Do I Need the Church?
Symbolon Session 8: Why Do I Need the Church? The Mystery of the Catholic Church Though Jesus saves us as individuals, he calls us to...
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margaret kozak
Oct 20, 20221 min read
Who is Jesus?
Symbolon - Session 5 : Who Is Jesus? Just a Good Man or Lord of Our Lives? The Search - Episode 5 : Who is Jesus? No one has ever had...
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