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<div style="margin:0;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;">Only by keeping this two-fold perspective in mind can we fully understand the lectionary readings chosen for us this Sunday. As we shall see, by meditating on the former we learn lessons about how to prepare best for the latter. John the Baptist, for example, becomes not only the one to prepare the way for the Incarnation but also a model for what it means to prepare for the Second Coming...<img data-id="36831313-2c3b-4506-9185-80c896e003b0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/kVGQBHT3RsI?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" alt="" height="1" width="1"></div>
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<div style="margin:0;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;">Many people think of Advent merely in terms of pre-Christmas time: office parties, shopping, decorating etc. But in the Church, Advent is a penitential time, a time of preparation for both the Christmas Feast and the Second Coming of the Lord. The purple vestments signal penance. The faithful are encouraged to go to Confession, and the liturgical texts and readings emphasize readying for the coming of the Lord...<img data-id="311b063e-4e68-9b91-083e-abedffac8060" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/dO_Uwx0zZq4?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" alt="" height="1" width="1"></div>
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<div style="margin:0;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;">Photons of light from across the visible spectrum reach the Earth’s atmosphere. But more energetic (and shorter wavelength) photons are scattered away by particles in the atmosphere. So we don’t see blue and violet colors from the Sun as they’re scattered across the sky. Particles with longer wavelengths, yellow, orange and red (the longest) have a better chance of making it through the atmosphere without being scattered...<img data-id="79b1eb5b-8408-8e8d-7ac9-382a3b97b71e" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/F5LSQlWgsqc?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" alt="" height="1" width="1"></div>
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<div style="margin:0;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;">Ferrell Jenkins runs a travel blog and today wrote a post on the Ports of the Sea of Galilee which has some excellent photographs of the Church of the Primacy of Peter at Tabgha. In this interesting post he comments on the work of the late Mendel Nun, who was a member of Kibbutz Ein Gev and worked as a fisherman on the Sea of Galilee...<img data-id="e8d4c0a4-4815-188c-5967-a73208282e75" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/lznvmpJIFtw?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" alt="" height="1" width="1"></div>
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<div style="margin:0;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;">The man characterized as a dictator by his employees has been removed as commander of the Swiss Guard, the small army that historically protects the pope, at the request of Pope Francis. Colonel Daniel Rudolf Anrig, who served in the position for eight years, will leave his post Jan. 31. French media reports attributed the decision to the commander’s strictness...<img data-id="b9cce040-6806-e2ed-7f28-0c2d183b16e1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/3wl2XScJ9Nw?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" alt="" height="1" width="1"></div>
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<div style="margin:0;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;">Al Sharpton may be an ignorant, self-aggrandizing, rabble-rousing charlatan, but that doesn't mean he's wrong every time. This time, he's right on. Why was the policeman not prosecuted? Garner said eleven times that he could not breathe, but the police officer kept the pressure on Garner's neck, and Garner died. The medical examiner ruled it was homocide...<img data-id="b8c5475c-b84e-d351-c205-23533a4b2e6c" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/Oxhu6hU9wL8?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" alt="" height="1" width="1"></div>
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<div style="margin:0;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;">I’ve often been impressed at the ability of the old African-American spirituals to treat serious subjects in a clear, memorable, and almost joyful way. This is true even of very weighty matters like sin and judgment. And while we are here in the opening weeks of Advent, quite focused on the Second Coming of Jesus to judge the world by fire...<img data-id="6bd0b576-d74a-6925-6bb7-6d35e069a670" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/IOL4bNjMu-o?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" alt="" height="1" width="1"></div>
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<div style="margin:0;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;">If he’s remembered at all these days, it’s as portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the film “Amistad;” but John Quincy Adams was arguably the most talented and consequential public servant in American history. He served in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, represented the United States diplomatically as ambassador to the Netherlands...<img data-id="fbe25639-e82c-3c39-4f55-8f8417a1fb0c" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/OavrGt0-Cok?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" alt="" height="1" width="1"></div>
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<div style="margin:0;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;">It's that time of year again—time for my favorite holiday tradition: the 2014 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar. Every day until Thursday, December 25, this page will present an amazing new image of our universe from NASA's Hubble telescope. Be sure to visit every day until Christmas, or follow me on Twitter, Google ...<img data-id="13e4dccd-8602-be50-baa4-7d0415511af4" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/fn53qRj41as?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" alt="" height="1" width="1"></div>
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<div style="margin:0;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;">Greed doesn’t sum up the priesthood. The average priest makes under $35,000 per year. Sexism doesn’t sum up the priesthood. Jesus ordained men, but women never had to be priests to be important in the Church. In fact, some of the most important people in Church history have been women. Abuse doesn’t sum up the priesthood...<img data-id="965f41db-a7f4-4456-f7c3-d0f8678fa1a5" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/MhnYDArx37s?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" alt="" height="1" width="1"></div>
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<div style="margin:0;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;">One of the many joys for me upon beginning my studies at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary was being invited by the seminary's Peace and Justice/Gospel of Life Apostolate to give a lunchtime talk to the 210 seminarians there. The organizers wanted me to share the message of my book My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints from a pastoral-care perspective...<img data-id="e68fcce5-799d-7250-e9b9-c7b0408fe7e0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/MOiZDjPAs4E?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" alt="" height="1" width="1"></div>
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