Category Archives: Hope

Eclipse of God’s Truth

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN TODAY IN 15 STATES OF THE USA. In Connecticut we will experience a 90% eclipse of the sun as seen in the photo below. It is rather miraculous shall we say that as vast … Continue reading →

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The Empty Tomb

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

“Pilate said to them, “The guard is yours; go secure it as best you can.” So they went and secured the tomb by fixing a seal to the stone and setting the guard. – Matthew 27: 65-66 “The king lay … Continue reading →

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The Vigil

Posted on March 30, 2024 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

“The king lay in state with the guard about Him. And the most astounding fact about this spectacle of vigilance over the dead is that the enemies of Christ expected the Resurrection, but His friends did not. It was the … Continue reading →

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Sacrifice: The Condition of Love

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

“For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.” – John 18:37 All things have a purpose. Suffering is no … Continue reading →

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Palm Sunday Ushers in “The Week That Changed The World”

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

As we enter Holy Week we remember that two years ago we and the world entered a most unprecedented period of duress rooted in a pandemic from which many trials and challenges have sprung forth. Yet the lessons of Holy … Continue reading →

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A Reprise of The Carpenter’s Son for St. Joseph Day

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

“And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? Behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? Did you not know, that … Continue reading →

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Lest We Forget

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

A reprise of a post during the pandemic. Much has been illuminated and opinions altered since the truths were revealed from the pandemic follow-up studies. But suffering, loss and sacrifice are as much a part of Lent than any trial … Continue reading →

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Ash Wednesday

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, 2Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. 3All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye … Continue reading →

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The Worth of One Picture

Posted on January 15, 2024 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

Let us complete this most familiar statement from the title of this post; “One picture is worth one thousand words.” First, pictured we have a man knocking at a door. It is not unusual, for we have knocks at our … Continue reading →

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All Is Calm, All Is Bright

Posted on December 24, 2023 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

“Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all… As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a … Continue reading →

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