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Tradition: The Firewall Against Change.

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

The following is an excellent essay on how the regular observance of Christmas, as one important means, provides a protective island from the rising tide of change that will completely submerge tradition if not for the observance thereof. Belloc on … Continue reading →

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Why Advent?

Posted on December 6, 2019 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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What Dreams May Come

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

Hamlet: “To die, to sleep–No more–and by a sleep to say we end the heartache, and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep–To sleep–perchance to dream: ay, … Continue reading →

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Relentless Pursuer of the Restless Heart

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

“for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” – Matthew 6:21 Why is our conversation so conflict laden? Why do we accuse one another rather than listen with a rational open mind? All compromise and reason is … Continue reading →

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What’s Wrong with the World?

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

When a Newspaper once asked the question: “What’s wrong with the world?” G.K. Chesterton, the great Catholic thinker replied: “I am.” We too are responsible, when we take no action which would make life a bit better for another given … Continue reading →

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Paine vs Alinsky: Two Faces of Revolution

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey. After General George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River north of … Continue reading →

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Purging Doubt

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

“Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.” – John 20:27 The city of Lanciano, founded long before Christianity, was first called Anxanum. Its present … Continue reading →

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God’s Choice and America

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

The choice before God in creating the world lay between creating a purely mechanical universe, peopled by automatons, or creating a spiritual universe in which there would be a choice of good and evil. What was the condition then of … Continue reading →

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Reconciled

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

There once was a preacher who would bring the Word of God from town to town. He was called the “Train Preacher,” because he would travel by train to evangelize. And at each stop along the way he would preach … Continue reading →

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On Giving

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

Go break to the needy sweet charity’s bread; “For giving is living, and living is giving” the angel said.” And must I be giving again and again?” My peevish and pitiless answer ran. “Oh no,” said the angel, piercing … Continue reading →

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