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Tag:new, resolution, yearWomen make more resolutions but men tend to keep them more. Interesting gender differences pertaining to New Year resolutions. Blatant gender differences but many tend to deny or mitigate such differences. Gender differences are hardwired into our genes by God. I’m not sure though if He achieved this via evolution or intelligent design.

Tag:catholic, christian, resolutionThere are many of us who over the years have ambitiously embarked on a courageous New Year resolution to accomplish. I’m sure by now many of us would have thought about or even have decided on a resolution to achieve something in 2007. This article is meant to give an insight into Christian […]

Tag:catholic, innocents, prolifeI think everyday should be a commemoration of Holy Innocents - not just those who died under Herod’s execution orders on account of Jesus, but everyone who is exterminated because they are inconvenient to society. Why everyday - simply because the number who are eliminated daily is increasing and the type of abominations […]

Tag:film, nativity, reviewBy Rianne Hill Soriano
Retelling the story of the birth of Jesus Christ, ’The Nativity Story’ renders a simple and straightforward cinematic work that mainly humanizes the characters of Mary, Joseph, and their families and associations. The film is solemnly predictable, and it keeps up to the essence of the Christian tale about the […]

Tag:catholic, prolife, saintNot many of us including Catholics, see children as gifts from God. We may tend to see them as expenses rather than blessings from God. We have been inculcated to provide children with all kinds of things we think are necessities - education at Harvard or Yale, car, latest cell phones models, new […]

Tag:acappella, christian, songJust heard a wonderful rendition of acappella by the Christian group of the same name, Acappella, on Mark Shea’s blog, “Catholic & Enjoying It!”.

Tag:Christmas, hearts, meaningBy Angie Lewis
There is a great commotion again this year surrounding how people are going to celebrate Christmas and whom they are going to worship, Jesus or santa? Even if the retail establishments, government institutions, schools and churches want to take Jesus out of the nativity and put santa in there instead it […]

Tag:catholic, faith, pro lifeToday during this Christmas period, we celebrate the feast of the Holy Innocents. Specifically we celebrate the martyrdom of infants who were slaughtered because Herod felt threatened and inconvenienced by Jesus’ birth. This event in history, we recall was a repeat of a similar situation a few centuries before that occurred […]

Tag:Christmas, joy, poemBy Paul Davis
Christmas to some
May seem like an inconvenience
Certainly it is a drag
When many merely
Of us make merchandise
And milk the holiday season
To jack up the price
Of goods we must buy
To show ourselves nice
Yet playing along
Singing a few songs
Jingle bells and ding dong
Decking the halls with holly
While forgetting the reason
For this beloved season
This my […]

Tag:carols, Christmas, songsBy Sean Carter
Who hasn’t heard the sweet Christmas carols and the many melodious Christmas songs in life ? Everyone who has an ear for music or those who’re far from it would equally feel enraptured by the soulfulness of the Christmas carols and songs. No Christmas is ever complete without the carols and […]