Category Archives: common sense

Bethlehem No More

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

A prayer from Venerable Fulton J. Sheen Most appropriate for the season of Lent. No, Mary! Bethlehem is not come back. This is not the crib, but the Cross; not birth, but death; not the day of companionship with Shepherds … Continue reading →

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Lent and The Paradox of the Cross

Posted on March 4, 2023 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

LENT The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday; with the participants being marked with ashes and the words “Repent and believe in the Good News” are prayed. The expectation is to imitate the example of Jesus’ prayer and fasting in the … Continue reading →

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The Bus Stop

Posted on February 7, 2023 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

An old man was on his way to a doctor’s appointment and was in a hurry since his got a late start. Bill, 70 years old, retired from his job four years ago. While driving he was complaining about the … Continue reading →

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I Want to Live

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

Hall of Fame football coach Tony Dungy announced Wednesday on Twitter that he will be attending the March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Friday. The two-time Super Bowl champion (one as a player, one as a coach) said he … Continue reading →

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Jack Frost

Posted on December 29, 2022 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

         “…art cries out for an artist. It is plainly impossible that so standard a work as the Universe should remain anonymous.” – G.K. Chesterton One morning my sister-in-law captured a photo of the top image that was left on her windshield … Continue reading →

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Why Advent? Revisited.

Posted on December 6, 2022 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

Advent is a season observed in many Western Christian churches. It is the beginning of the liturgical year in the Catholic Church, as well. It is a time of both anticipation and preparation for the celebration of the Birth of … Continue reading →

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The Challenge for Christ

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

Christ’s challenge was not Satan, but, rather, human weakness. He experienced all that we do except He never gave in to the inherent abuse of the senses. Hunger, thirst, unfulfilled can acquiesce to some threat or reward. Satan is not … Continue reading →

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God’s Justice

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard 20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius … Continue reading →

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Who Are We?

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

In our present-day dilemma of finding it difficult to define a baby, it is no wonder that we find difficulty in defining a man or a woman. To bring some clarity, I hope, I offer the writings of Rudyard Kipling … Continue reading →

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The One Truth

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

When the mad Carousel that is the world has run its course, there will be but One truth, that has always been from the start, remaining. It is the One Truth that stood before Pilate as the answer to his … Continue reading →

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