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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>Glimpses of Marian Centre</title>
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<description><![CDATA[by the Regina staff. You haven&rsquo;t heard from our inner city house on the Canadian prairies for a while, so here&rsquo;s some news from each of us....]]></description>
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<title>There Is a Hope in Hell</title>
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<description><![CDATA[by a staff worker. Perhaps you have heard the saying, &quot;there isn&rsquo;t a hope in hell,&quot; which refers to an impossible situation or problem. That line was certainly part of my vocabulary. This past year, however, I have discovered hope...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Sign of the Cross</title>
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<description>by Romano Guardini. When we cross ourselves, let it be with a real sign of the cross. Instead of a small cramped gesture that gives no notion of its meaning, let us make a large, unhurried sign, from forehead to...</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Praying With Your Body</title>
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<description><![CDATA[by Fr. David May. The old man peered from behind the curtain of the iconostasis. &quot;Sign!&quot; he yelled. &quot;Sign! Why aren&rsquo;t you signing?!&quot;...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Poem</title>
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<description>by Lolita Jardeleza....</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>A New Way of Seeing</title>
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<description>by Roman Guardini. The more we think about long-familiar things, the clearer does their meaning grow. Things we have done thousands of times, if we will only look into them more deeply, will disclose to us their beauty. If we...</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Why Not Be a Mystic?</title>
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<description>by Fr. Pat McNulty. One cloudy day, I was sitting on the ground outside the poustinia in great turmoil and pain. I was trying to make some very difficult decisions in my life, and I was feeling a desperate need...</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<category>Word Made Flesh</category>
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<title>Forgiveness</title>
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<description>by Catherine Doherty. We must forgive the society from which we came; we must forgive the ways it has hurt us....</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<category>My Dear Family</category>
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<title>Forgiving is a Journey</title>
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<description>by Irma Zaleski. Some twenty years ago, I spent two weeks at Madonna House. Although I had already known the community for a few years and thought I knew them quite well, my short stay made me realize how little,...</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>One Man&apos;s Scrap, Another Man&apos;s Gold (February 2010)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Whoever invented the twelve-month calendar was wise to give February only 28 days. They must have had an inkling it was going to be a cold, dreary month. But dreary or not, we think it&rsquo;s a good month for getting...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>We Are Saved Sinners</title>
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<description><![CDATA[by Jean Fox. We say, &quot;I&rsquo;m wounded&quot; or &quot;I can&rsquo;t help that because I&rsquo;m wounded.&quot; We must learn to say, &quot;No, it&rsquo;s not my wound that makes me mean and irritable and devious and hateful. It&rsquo;s the fact that I&rsquo;m...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<category>Lent and Easter</category>
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<title>How Can I Not Pay Tribute?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[by Pope Benedict XVI. &quot;The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus,&quot; the saintly Cur&eacute; of Ars would often say. Let us reflect with heartfelt gratitude on the immense gift which priests represent, not only for the Church,...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<category>The Pope&apos;s Corner</category>
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<title>Got a Penny?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[by Fr. Pat McNulty. The toothless, scruffy old beggar outside the bus station didn&rsquo;t bat an eye when I declined her sexual pitch. But before I could converse with her along a more favourable line, she said to me, &quot;Got...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<category>Word Made Flesh</category>
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<title>He&apos;s Admirable, But...</title>
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<description><![CDATA[by Fr. David May. If an article in Restoration starts with the theme of &quot;penance,&quot; are you likely to continue reading? Are you still with me? If so, let&rsquo;s look together at the example of St. John Vianney, patron of...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Lent: School of Love</title>
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<description><![CDATA[by Catherine Doherty. Lent is God&rsquo;s lovemaking to man. But God&rsquo;s lovemaking is strange. He knows, for instance, that a child is trained to jump by having first a little brick to jump over, for his feet are very tiny;...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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