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Vocations

You’ve gotta love it when it seems like the Holy Spirit is leading you through your workweek, making the job easier and the product better.
My turn to lead morning prayer for the Florida Catholic state office staff came up again yesterday and today and, as regular readers of Living Faith may know, that means I [...]

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Why is St. Lawrence a patron of seminarians?

by Denise O'Toole Kelly on August 15, 2009

in Faith Stories, Vocations, saints

We didn’t plan it this way, but our spotlight on seminarians in this post and its companion in our Florida Catholic print editions, the Living Our Faith page, happen to fall very close to the Aug. 10 feast of St. Lawrence, a patron of seminarians.
Our coverage focuses on what men who are preparing for the [...]

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We’re about a month into the Year for Priests, as announced in March by Pope Benedict XVI in his address to the Congregation for the Clergy, the Living Faith blog hasn’t done anything to yet to participate in the observance.
I’m going to make up for that now with this invitation to readers to share stories [...]

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I just this year starting dipping my toe into the pool of social networking sites on the Web, and am extraordinarily cautious about how deeply I wade into personal information. My first “profile” consisted of my name and birthday (no year). As I got a little more comfortable, I figured, “What harm would it do [...]

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In 13 years as a sportswriter and sports copy-desker, I’ve covered many a national signing day, during which high-school athletes sign national letters of intent to make official their college choices. They are normally big ceremonies that draw big crowds. Some even get airtime on ESPN.
What if we made as big a deal about high-school [...]

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