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The Importance of Retreat
Bishop Richard F. Stika celebrates Mass with priests on retreat from the Diocese of Knoxville. The priests of the Diocese of Knoxville are on retreat as I write these lines at Lake Junaluska in North...
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Catholics, Sacred Scripture, and Tradition
We hear much talk, and rightly so, of the idea of the need to evangelize, and of the “New Evangelization,” the need to re-evangelize in many cases. In our part of the United States, evangelization can...
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Pray Prayers of Thanks
Each day, Catholic clergy, religious men and women, and laypeople from all over the world pray the Liturgy of the Hours. These powerful prayers, rooted in the psalms and in Sacred Scripture, move...
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Thoughts of a Lector
The men of our diocesan diaconate formation class were formally installed as Lectors by Bishop Stika on Saturday evening at the Vigil Mass at All Saints in West Knoxville on Saturday evening. As was...
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The Needle’s Eye
As the old year of 2014 ended and 2015 was about to begin, the Holy See issued its annual report, which showed that the number of Catholics world-wide continues to grow, and that growth is evident...
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1 Kings 19:9A, 11-13A Romans 9:1-5 Matthew 14:22-33 The prophet Elijah begins our readings today by going to Mount Horeb, also called Mount Sinai, and one of the things that we don’t see in that...
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