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	<description>Connecting the dots between Catholic faith and culture</description>
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		<title>Practical Advice File: How Wisdom Protects us from our Despoilers.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 04:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At daily Mass we are reading from the Book of Sirach, and there are several verses which bespeak blessing but also warning: Wisdom breathes life into her children and admonishes the one who seeks her…. She puts him to the test; Fear and dread she brings upon him and tries him with her discipline until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distinguishing Knowledge from Wisdom and Understanding</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post I am trying to continue our celebration of the lost &#8220;Octave&#8221; of Pentecost. Today I want to consider three gifts of the Holy Spirit. As you may recall, there are seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude and Fear of the Lord. Most Catholics cannot define them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Consideration of the Sequence Hymn of Pentecost: Veni Sancte Spiritus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are several Feasts of the Church wherein a &#8220;sequence&#8221; hymn may be sung. The sequence hymn is sung Just before the the Alleluia (Gospel acclamation). The feasts with sequence hymns are these: Easter &#8211; Victimae Paschali Laudes (To the Paschal Victim give praise) Pentecost &#8211; Veni Sancte Spiritus (Come Holy Spirit) Corpus Christi &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Images of the Holy Spirit From Scripture</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/images-of-the-holy-spirit-from-scripture/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/images-of-the-holy-spirit-from-scripture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 01:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is one of the quirks of the post-conciliar liturgy, that the Octave of Pentecost was dropped. Generally the post-concilar age has tried to emphasize the Gifts and works of the Holy Spirit. But, paradoxically the octave of Pentecost was dropped. The feast, which ranks right up there with Easter, (which has an octave), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I have Come to Cast a Fire on the Earth &#8211; A Meditation on the Feast of Pentecost</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/i-have-come-to-cast-a-fire-on-the-earth-a-mediation-on-the-feast-of-pentecost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a wondrous and challenging feast we celebrate at Pentecost. A feast like this challenges us, because it puts to the lie a lazy, sleepy, hidden, and tepid Christian life. The Lord Jesus had said to Apostles, and still says to us: I have come to cast a fire on the earth! (Luke 12:49). This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power Gone Wrong &#8211; As seen in a Superhero Cartoon Clip</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/power-gone-wrong-as-seen-in-a-superhero-cartoon-clip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 01:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We tend to demonize the word &#8220;power&#8221; in our culture. But of itself, power is simply the capacity to act, a kind of energy to accomplish what must be done. Power in this sense can lead to magnificent and creative solutions to difficulties, wonderful breakthroughs and great progress. God gives us all a certain degree [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>What is the Christian Understanding of Freedom and how is it different from the World&#8217;s fake freedom?</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/what-is-the-christian-understanding-of-freedom-and-how-is-it-different-from-the-worlds-fake-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 02:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the terribly destructive philosophies is a false notion of freedom. The sinful world, going all the way back to Satan&#8217;s deceit in the garden, thinks of freedom as being able to do whatever I please. In effect those who hold this, flaunt their false notion of freedom saying in effect, &#8220;I will do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Lady of Fatima and the &#8220;Muslim Connection&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/our-lady-of-fatima-and-the-muslim-connection/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/our-lady-of-fatima-and-the-muslim-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 01:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week we celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. (And, given my mention of Fatima, you may wonder why I have Our Lady of Guadalupe pictured here, but more on that in a moment). But as for Fatima, with all the emphasis on the magnificent teaching and prophetic fulfillment of that apparition, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chipping away everything that is not of God or You &#8211; A Meditation on God as Sculptor</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/chipping-away-everything-that-is-not-of-god-or-you-a-meditation-on-god-as-sculptor/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/chipping-away-everything-that-is-not-of-god-or-you-a-meditation-on-god-as-sculptor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michelangelo was asked the question how he could make a beautiful sculpture like his &#8220;Moses&#8221; out of a large block of marble. He famously answered that he simply began and chipped away everything that wasn&#8217;t Moses. And this is a paradigm for us, into senses. Clearly for us, the Lord must chip away everything in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does God Approve the Abuse of Women? A Meditation on Genesis 3:16</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/does-god-approve-the-abuse-of-women-a-meditation-on-genesis-316/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/does-god-approve-the-abuse-of-women-a-meditation-on-genesis-316/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 03:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the darker passages in the Scriptures comes just after the Fall of Adam and Eve. God is announcing the consequences they have ushered in, and, having spoken to Adam of the arduous quality of work and the hostility of the natural world, God turns to Eve and says, I will greatly multiply your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God is preparing me for something I can&#8217;t handle now. What the Story of Moses&#8217; preparation has to teach us.</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/god-is-preparing-me-for-something-i-cant-handle-now-what-the-story-of-moses-preparation-has-to-teach-us/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/god-is-preparing-me-for-something-i-cant-handle-now-what-the-story-of-moses-preparation-has-to-teach-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 02:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Second Chapter of Exodus, we have presented the Story of Moses and how he was prepared by God for the great mission he would one day take up, by God grace, that of delivering and leading the Jewish people to freedom and toward the Promised Land. But as we shall see, Moses&#8217; preparation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every Round Goes Higher &#8211; A Meditation on the Feast of the Ascension</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/every-round-goes-higher/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2013/05/every-round-goes-higher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 22:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In more dioceses than not, the Feast of the Ascension is celebrated this weekend. The liturgist in me regrets the move, but here we are anyway. So let&#8217;s ascend with the Lord, three days late! This marvelous feast is not merely about something that took place two thousand years ago. For, though Christ our head [...]]]></description>
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