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There is a wonderful article on the power of prayer written by Monsignor Pope available here .

This is a great Catholic IQ test online.  It is quite lengthy so be prepared to answer questions for 20-25 minutes.  It's well worth your time.  Go here to take the test.

Excerpted from Father Michael J. Woolley's Trinity Sunday homily. Read it in its entirety   here : [ ... ] And so today we celebrate this wonderful and central mystery of our Faith: that the One True God is a community of Persons, Father Son and Holy Spirit. The Bond of Love that Unites these Three Persons into One is like a Triple Linked Chain that nothing could ever break. This Strong Love of the Most Blessed Trinity has been poured into our hearts at Baptism. And so long as we remain united with the Trinity through loving God and loving our neighbor, even now in this life we get a foretaste of that Love we will abide in forever in Heaven. But while chains of Love uniting the Persons of the Holy Trinity with each other are unbreakable, the chains of Love which unite us to God are not. As the saying goes, a chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link. And when we commit sin, we may break only one link in the chain that binds us to God, but that one link

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Order Out of Confusion Fr. Rene Butler Remember learning about mixed metaphors, where two or more incompatible images are used to describe one thing? Years ago I saw a cartoon from the New Yorker magazine, where an executive speaking to his staff says, “Gentlemen, I smell a rat. I can feel it in the air. And I will nip it in the bud!” We seem to have a similar confusion about the Holy Spirit, presented in the New Testament as a dove, wind, fire, and called “Paraclete,” which in turn is translated sometimes as Comforter and sometimes as Advocate. The hymn “ Veni Sancte Spiritus ” calls on the Spirit to “melt the frozen, warm the chill,” just after describing the Spirit as “Grateful coolness in the heat.” But all this isn’t so strange as it might at first appear. The key lies in  John 3:8 , “The wind blows where it wills… but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.” (See  1 Corinthians 12 ,  Galatians 5:22-23  for just a few examples.) The Spirit is “spont