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My Guide to Wimp-less Fasting
Reflection of the Day: This fasting thing is complicated. If you doubt, check out the first of today’s reading. It’s gotten a bad name in many religious circles and yet it’s made a real surge in some secular ones – go figure. In Catholic circles, in my less than humble opinion, we’ve become whooshes on fasting (I include within fasting what is technically abstinence). Here’s the “rigorous” demand placed on Catholics for Lenten: Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays of Lent no meat. Big deal – only cheese pizza, shrimp, chocolate cake and sushi on 6 of the 40 days. Don’t get me started on those who ask…
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Hang with God on this Nameless Thursday
No ashes chocolates, flowers or other give-aways today – not even a name for the Thursday after Ash Wednesday. So just quietly hang with God and rejoice in his invitation to live and love. Click here for today’s reading. Verse: Deuteronomy 30:16 If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy.
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JustLove’s Look Forward to Lent 2018
Mary Elise Zellmer who is the Assistant Director and Region 1 Coordinator of Young Adult Outreach at the Archdiocese of New York will be joining us on the show. Mary Elise and Msgr. Sullivan will be talking about her work at Young Adult Outreach of the Archdiocese of New York, and how – through various events that the office sponsors – they keep young adults connected with the life of the Church in New York. Father Ken Sherman who is the Pastor of Saint Ann’s Melkite Catholic Church in Woodland Park, New Jersey will be calling in the studio. Given that this weekend is the last weekend before Ash Wednesday, Msgr. Sullivan and…
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JustLove’s Look at the Superbowl, & Catholic Schools Week
On this week’s episode of JustLove, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan speaks with two guests about Superbowl LII and Catholic Schools Week. Dr. Anna V. Ramirez-Adam, who is the Principal of Saint Elizabeth’s Catholic School in the Washington Heights neighborhood of NYC will be in the studio. Dr. Ramirez-Adam and Msgr. Sullivan will be talking about her 35 years of experiences teaching in parochial schools in New York City as well as South Florida, and what – in her opinion – are some of the most essential elements of a Catholic education today. Catholic Schools Week began on Monday, January 28th and ended on Friday February 3rd Given that this Sunday – February…
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Worker’s Wages and Dignity in the New Year
On this week’s episode of JustLove, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan is speaking with two guests focused on Worker’s Wages and dignity in the New Year. On the phone, Diana Ramirez – who is the Deputy Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Center United as will be joining the show. Msgr. Sullivan and Diana will be talking about the work that she and her organization ROC United does to raise awareness of sexual harassment and other labor issues in the food service industry. Katie Johnston, a Reporter for The Boston Globe who concentrates on covering workplace and income inequality, joins us on the phone. In the month of January, 18 states across the country have increased…
