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My day first began watching the Fox News Channel as they were getting ready for a speech coming from President Donald Trump at Arlington Cemetery and this was one great speech. I went out to our front yard and took a picture of statues I have by our flag posted there. I had previously talked with my wife who told me of one of her uncles who had been wounded in battle during WW II as did one of my uncles (Joe) who was bayoneted by a Japanese running upon him during a hand to

Eucharistic Miracle of Glotowo, Poland 1290 Please remember that our faith is not founded on Eucharistic miracles, but on the proclamation of the Lord Jesus, received with faith through the action of the Holy Spirit. We believe because we have believed in the preaching (see Gal. 3:5; also in Rom 10:17): “Faith depends on hearing and hearing by the word of Christ; and, in turn, preaching depends on the word of Christ.” “Believing is an act of the intellect, which under the in

After nearly four years of college and then being in the work force, I caught one of those Army commercials calling us to be "All you can be in the Army". I made a dramatic career change that would change my life forever. I am so thankful that I was strong in my Catholic Faith before I signed up because I would be tested many times through out my Military life. So much so that I do not know how anyone can go though this without have faith! The foundation of the United Sta

https://deepertruthdon.podbean.com/e/deepertruth-novena-to-the-holy-spirit-through-pentecost-1733538172/ Pentecost, the Greek name for “Fiftieth Day“! It takes place 50 days from Easter! In Hebrew, (חג השבועות Hag haShavuot or Shevuot known as “the Feast of Weeks.” Pentecost also marks the 1988th birthday of the Catholic Faith. Some might say Ascension Thursday is the birth of the Papacy, regardless, this is when we were sent out by the coming of the Holy Spirit! This wa

It was Early February 2009, I had just deployed to Iraq leaving my Wife, Gigi, who had received a healing after suffering 6 months due to terrible lower abdomen pain. Between May 13 and October 13, 1917, three Portuguese children–Francisco and Jacinta Marto and their cousin Lucia dos Santos–received apparitions of Our Lady at Cova da Iria near Fatima, a city 110 miles north of Lisbon. Mary asked the children to pray the rosary for world peace, for the end of World War I, for

It was a hot dry morning in July at Joint Security Station Sadr City Iraq. I had spent the morning ensuring that Sick Call ran smoothly and all our contemporary missions were being maintained. I made the decision to run by the gym to do some "military press" lifting about 180 pounds 25 times over my head. As I arrived into the workout area there was another Soldier from A Company who was already doing some bench work. I struck up a conversation with him talking about wor

St. James the Less is noted as "Less" to distinguish him from James, the brother of St. John and the son of Zebedee who is called James the "Greater". The reason being that James the Less was a younger man and age has it's rank and privilege. The better translation would be James the younger. Today's story is about James the Less who was the son of Cleopus (John 19:25) also known as Alphaeus, and Mary, a close relative of the Virgin Mary. James was a cousin of Jesus who

St. Philip was one of the original twelve Apostles who grew up in Bethsaida on the Lake Genesareth (John 1:44). He was raised around the fishing industry and he was very close to the brothers Simon and Andrew the sons of Bar-Jona (House of Bar-Jona) and James and John who were the sons of Zebedee (Matthew 4:21). St. Philip as a boy learned the trade of a fisherman who spent most his early life fishing on the boats constructed for heavy catches. He was strong in his Jewish

https://deepertruthdon.podbean.com/e/deepertruth-st-james-the-greater-son-of-thunder-and-apostle/ James along with his Brother John are identified by St. Mark as the sons of Zebedee, but with the added surname "Boanerges" that is, "sons of thunder. Mark 3:17 What does this mean? Is this a great honor being placed on Father Zebedee? Jesus knew the Apostles very core and he gave James and John the nickname of "thunder" because of their disposition. Consider Luke 9:54, "When