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          Years ago, on Memorial Day weekend, nearly half a million people joined hands along a 4,152-mile-long line across the U.S. to raise funds – and consciousness – to fight hunger and homelessness.  People linked up for fifteen minutes and sang “We are the World,” the theme song of the campaign, and “America the Beautiful,” joyfully celebrating the day and the singleness of purpose from sea to shining sea.  On that very day, Sport Aid, a campaign for African famine relief, attracted twenty million people in seventy-eight countries.  Millions of people the world over tried to […]

            The month of June, as we know, is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of  Jesus.  Today, I ask the question:  What does it mean to love God?                For the most part, many are inclined to think of love as a fond feeling of warmth and affection.  We sing about it; we read about it; we watch it in movies and on TV.   Love is a deep feeling that one person has for another.  And quite clearly, not even God can demand that.  How can we command the human heart to feel […]

          For many people in this world, it is sometimes very difficult to believe in a God of love.  But neither is it easy to get rid of Him.  Even a casual look at the starry heavens on a clear night   can fill us with a sense of awe.   And   we find ourselves thinking that someone must be behind all of this.  And sometimes in quiet moments, there is a feeling that we are not alone.  Someone else is there, a presence that nothing material can explain.          So for many they believe […]

            When Dwight Eisenhower was President of the United States, he was quoted  as saying, “the  people of the world want peace so much that that one these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”  Here we are many years later and still the saying of President Eisenhower rings true.             If we could conduct a survey of the nations of the world, I am sure we would discover that one of the deepest desires of all people is to live in peace.  At […]