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<description>Written by Madonna House staff, Restoration is an essential part of our witness to the Gospel. Here we share our personal stories and reflections on the Gospel challenges of today, along with writings from Catherine Doherty and the Catholic Church.</description>
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<title>Growing Up Near St. Joe&apos;s</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ by Christina Milan. My earliest memories of St. Joe&rsquo;s are of the toy box and being bounced on the knee of Marie Therese McLaughlin. That toy box held endless wonders for me while the adults chatted. And the bouncing...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Helping at St. Joe&apos;s</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ by Toni Austin. In the fall of l961, I was assigned to work at old St. Joe&rsquo;s to help with the preparations for Christmas. I was a young working guest from Toronto, twenty years old....]]></description>
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<title>Memories of the Early Days</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ by Trudi Cortens, first director of St. Joseph&rsquo;s House. &quot;Nothing is alien to the apostolate except sin,&quot; Catherine often told us, and that left her, and us, wide open to take on just about any kind of work to...]]></description>
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<title>A Nursing Story</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ by Catherine Doherty. Catherine liked to reminisce about her early years in Combermere. Here is one of her favorite stories&mdash;and one of ours, too. The day had been hard. The bed was so wonderful. Sleep was instantaneous and deep....]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Our Good Neighbours</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ by Lorna Tonack. My memories of St. Joe&rsquo;s stretch back to the spring of 1980, when my husband Carl and I moved to Combermere from Edmonton, Alberta, with our two young daughters. We were a young family hoping to...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Fifty Years of Friendship</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ by Melanie Murphy. There is movement in the quiet village of Combermere. Cars line Highway 517 on both sides as far as the eye can see. Clusters of people and vehicles&nbsp;are also gathered on the southeast corner where the...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>A Letter from Ancient Rome</title>
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<description><![CDATA[During Eastertide, the Mass readings from the Acts of the Apostles give us a glimpse of the early Christians. Here&rsquo;s another glimpse....]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>One Man&apos;s Scrap, Another Man&apos;s Gold (April 2013)</title>
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<description>After a cold winter, we are glad to welcome spring with its warmer days and to be drawing near to Holy Week and Easter....</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>I Have Seen Christ</title>
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<description> by Beth Ryan. I arise and search for my beloved (cf. Song of Songs 3:2) I have seen Him in the faces of the teenagers in a parish youth group, who came to our house to see our way...</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Milestones (April 2013)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ New Local Directors and Transfers: Steve H&eacute;roux &amp; Janet Bourdet, co-directors, Marian Centre Edmonton. Deaths: Associate Fr. Duncan MacDonnell; Genevieve Enoe&rsquo;s mother, Sheila...]]></description>
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<title>Combermere Diary (April 2013)</title>
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<description> by Paulette Curran. As I was looking over the events of the past month in preparation for writing this column, I was struck once again by the simplicity of our Madonna House life....</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Storm is Coming</title>
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<description> by Cynthia Donnelly. Not too long ago, one of our friends called, deeply troubled by the culture of death and the relentless undermining of our religious freedoms in the U.S.A. As I listened, I was reminded of a meditation...</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Notes From Near and Far: Regina, Saskatchewan</title>
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<description> by Nancy Topping. I thought it was about time that we sent you some news from our house. This has been a real prairie winter. November is on record for having the most snow for that month in the...</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Proclaim the Glory of Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ by Pope John Paul II. Because we have been sent into the world as a &quot;people for life,&quot; our proclamation of the Gospel must also become a genuine celebration for the Gospel of life&hellip;. For this to happen, we...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand</title>
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<description> by Fr. Pat McNulty.See how much difference it makes when the Book of Revelation is read in some kind of recognizable context. No, the Book of Revelation never made any sense to me either way, in or out of...</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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