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2024-11-11T14:25:12-07:00

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The Real Sacred Heart is Not Pretty. But it is Everything.

Last updated on: November 11, 2024 at 2:25 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

One of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out. John 19: 34 I can’t provide an erudite theological understanding of the Sacred Heart. In fact, the Sacred Heart as a concept has always confused me. I know that Jesus’ heart was pierced by a soldier’s sword after He died on the Cross and a mixture of blood and water flowed out of it. I have read that this break down of blood... Read more

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2024-11-11T14:26:34-07:00

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Pray for Biden and all Parents with Drug Addicted Children

Last updated on: November 11, 2024 at 2:26 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

You don’t have to agree with Joe Biden’s politics to feel compassion for him as he faces another tragedy in his life. In this day and age, so many of us can recognize our own family in the tragedy of drug addiction which overtook his son Hunter. Many of us have known the suffering of watching someone we love get sucked down the hole of that raw evil. I have watched helplessly while someone I love destroyed their life with... Read more

2024-11-06T11:03:35-07:00

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Jesus Died for You.

Last updated on: November 6, 2024 at 11:03 am By Rebecca Hamilton

Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the world.” Jesus Christ Jesus gave the Apostles an explicit mission statement. Go. Make disciples of ALL nations. Baptize them in the name of the Father and the... Read more

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2024-05-10T08:55:51-06:00

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Ascension Day: When Jesus Began Working from Home

Last updated on: May 10, 2024 at 8:55 am By Rebecca Hamilton

Ascension Day is the day that Jesus started working from home. I saw a meme by the Episcopal Church saying that and loved it. Ascension Day really is the day that Jesus started working from home. It is also the day when the people who knew and loved Him personally lost His physical presence in their lives for the rest of their earthly existence. I’ve often thought about how empty it must have felt for them, walking home after seeing... Read more

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2024-05-07T21:31:15-06:00

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Viet Nam was America’s War. The Middle East War is Not.

Last updated on: May 7, 2024 at 9:31 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Senator Bernie Sanders made a very stupid comment a few days ago. He said that the war in the Middle East is “Biden’s Viet Nam.” I like Bernie Sanders. I think he is a sincere and independent-thinking man who really cares about the American people and who has a fully functioning moral code that he applies to his work in the United States Senate. But in this particular instance, Bernie is just spinning yarn. The war in the Middle East... Read more

2024 Election

2024-05-02T12:43:34-06:00

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Jesus loves you. He will accept you. Just as you are.

Last updated on: May 2, 2024 at 12:43 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Never to pay attention to the vessel in which I send you my grace … all (your) attention should be concentrated on responding to My grace as faithfully as possible. Jesus, speaking to Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska I am writing this post for people who sometimes feel alienated from the Church because of its indifference to them and their suffering. I am writing it for the victims of sexual abuse and rape, of discrimination and prejudice; for the ignored, the despised... Read more

2024-03-01T15:27:55-07:00

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God has Given You a Life. Use it with Love.

Last updated on: March 1, 2024 at 3:27 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

One of the many pleasures of these years of infirmity and advancing age is the gift of time. Convalescence from cancer, heart attacks, strokes and the like is a slow process that involves doing things that are difficult and that I don’t like such as exercise, changed diet, and forbearance on the one hand, and long, fallow days of learning a new normal, and a new way to structure my life and living on the other hand. I can’t do... Read more

2024-02-28T15:41:14-07:00

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Pope Frances Says Ban Surrogacy. I Say Stop the $$.

Last updated on: February 28, 2024 at 3:41 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

“I deem deplorable the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood, which represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child, based on the exploitation of situations of the mother’s material needs,” he said. “A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract.” Pope Francis Last January, Pope Francis labeled surrogate pregnancy “deplorable” and called for a worldwide ban on the practice. He called it the “commercialization” of pregnancy. When I was... Read more

2024-02-19T09:03:01-07:00

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Female Genital Mutilation: Why Aren’t You a Feminist?

Last updated on: February 19, 2024 at 9:03 am By Rebecca Hamilton

Women are raped, murdered, mutilated, sold as slaves, forced into marriage, forced to submit to sex, forced to bear children, denied education, medical care and individual freedoms. Denying women and girls basic civil and human rights is regarded is regarded as righteousness all around the globe … all simply because they are female. I passed a law back in 2009 making it a crime to perform what is known as Female Genital Mutilation (FMG) in Oklahoma. It’s not easy, passing... Read more

Violence Against Women

Why Aren't You a Feminist Too?

Women's Rights

2024-02-15T10:49:52-07:00

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It’s been Four Months since Everything Changed.

Last updated on: February 15, 2024 at 10:49 am By Rebecca Hamilton

It’s been 4 months since everything changed. I woke up. It was around 3 am. I got up and had no sense of balance. I toppled over like a doll. I hit the bureau beside the bed and caught myself with my hands. My arms and hands were working fine, but I had absolutely no sense of balance. I wasn’t dizzy. I’ve been massively dizzy in the past from inner ear problems caused by allergies. This wasn’t that. The room... Read more

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