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Can a Friend be my Spiritual Director? - Dan Burke, Catholic Spiritual Direction

The Proper Care and Feeding of a Choir: Part 2 - Wendi, Cradle Stories

Hey, Maureen It’s None of Your Business - Christian Tappe, Crisis Magazine

Anti-Catholic Bigot & Obama Appointee Heads Pro-Abortion Organization - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Why We Need Work - Rachel Howell, Ignitum Today

Beautiful: Opera Familia Christi, Fourth Sunday After Easter - Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Answering Objections to Catholic Teaching on Marriage - Dc. Mick Bickerstaff, Integrated Catholic Life™

IVF & the Right to be a Parent: The Child as an Expensive Lifestyle Accessory - Hilary White, LifeSiteNews

Caves of Refuge Discovered - Thomas L. McDonald, Patheos/God and the Machine

UK: The Birmingham Archdiocese & Tales from the Raj - Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

What Calvinists & Jesuits Don't Understand about Divine Providence - Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement

Another Anti-Catholic Post from the Ironically named UK Independent - Dylan Parry, A Reluctant Sinner

The Holy See on SSPX: Pope's Decision "Before the End of May" - Fr. Z's Blog

The Poet Who Saved a Saint’s Priceless Letters - Joseph Pearce, Catholic Herald

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Palestinian Christians celebrate Easter Sunday Mass at Holy Family Church in Gaza City on March 31, amid the ongoing battles Israel and the Hamas militant group.

People Explain ‘Why I Go to Mass’

‘Why go to Mass on Sundays? It is not enough to answer that it is a precept of the Church. … We Christians need to participate in Sunday Mass because only with the grace of Jesus, with his living presence in us and among us, can we put into practice his commandment, and thus be his credible witnesses.’ —Pope Francis

Palestinian Christians celebrate Easter Sunday Mass at Holy Family Church in Gaza City on March 31, amid the ongoing battles Israel and the Hamas militant group.

People Explain ‘Why I Go to Mass’

‘Why go to Mass on Sundays? It is not enough to answer that it is a precept of the Church. … We Christians need to participate in Sunday Mass because only with the grace of Jesus, with his living presence in us and among us, can we put into practice his commandment, and thus be his credible witnesses.’ —Pope Francis