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How can I explain transubstantiation to others?
First, you can say that we believe that the bread and wine at Mass become the Body and Blood of Christ. Then add your own experience of encountering Real Presence.
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Saying thanks
In PREPARE THE WORD's featured homily for Thanksgiving, author Robert McClory writes that a genuine expression of gratitude can be a holy thing, an opening to grace.
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----------YEAR OF PRAYER----------Dedicated to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer in one's personal life, in the life of the church, and in the world. Pope Francis calls on the People of God to create a "symphony of prayer." Find free prayer resources here: http://tinyurl.com/Year-of-Prayer ----------RESOURCE ON VOCATION AWARENESS----------"Bold and Faithful: Meet Today's Religious" a comprehensive interactive parish resource produced by the National Religious Vocation Conference (https://tinyurl.com/MeetTodaysReligious) ----------ARTICLE ON RACISM----------"What the church is teaching—and learning—about the sin of racism" by Alice Camille (https://www.vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/700-what-the-church-is-teaching-and-learning-about-the-sin-of-racism) ----------QUOTE ON RACISM----------"Until white people call out white people, there will always be safe places for racial ugliness to brew and fester." —Father Bryan Massingale, S.J. (2020 June, NCR).

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Season of Creation

Since 2019, the pope has joined the World Council of Churches, the Anglicans, and the Lutheran community in celebrating a month of recollection on ways to “care for our common home." The Season of Creation goes from September 1 through the Feast of Saint Francis, October 4. Here are 34 quotes we've excerpted from Laudato Si' to reflect on throughout the season.

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One day during a prolonged funk, when I was sure the world as we know it was coming to an end, my neighbor stopped by to ask me for help.

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Homily stories

When Bernard Hebda was in eighth grade, he thought he had an idea of what God was calling him to do, but he wasn’t sure: God either wanted him to become a priest or a bus driver.

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Homily stories

Flat on my back for three weeks, fighting an infection that ravaged my body and attacked both legs, leading to surgery and talk of possible amputation of one or both, I awoke intact but with a grueling regimen of physical therapy three times a day.

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