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My Confessions About the Confessional
What do you do when the Sacrament of Reconciliation feels like a torture chamber?
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Jocelyn Soriano
What Happens When Something Unclean Touches What Is Clean?
Should We Approach Jesus Only When We Are Sinless?
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March 2024

January 2024

November 2023

Do Catholics Live In a Different World?
What world is it then that they see?
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Jocelyn Soriano

October 2023

Can Quasimodo Still Claim Sanctuary For Esmeralda?
Whenever I hear the word “sanctuary”, the first thing that comes to mind is a Church where people can take refuge. In the same way that Quasimodo cried…
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How To Be Honest When Everyone Is Accused of Being a Thief
“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit I was happily doing my weekly…
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When My Plans Fail, Does God Still Abide With Me?
We all make plans. We make them because we want to have a definite idea of what we should be doing and what we can accomplish in the future. In a way…
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Jocelyn Soriano

June 2023

Is Dancing Appropriate Inside the Church?
And the sin that can make us think twice about it
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Jocelyn Soriano

April 2023

When You Pray, How Does God Answer You?
A brief reflection in times of doubt
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If To Be Christian Is To Suffer, Where Do You Find Rest?
"I looked... for comforters, but I found none." (Psalm 69)
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Can We Know With Certainty the Existence Of God?
A simple challenge for those who seek the truth
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