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Mom Forever In A Song

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

I offer this post written in 2016 on this Mother’s Day 2022. Though the years have passed since my mom’s passing the words and sentiments within this post hold as firm today as then and always, for no greater aspect … Continue reading →

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A Father’s Day Tribute

Posted on June 21, 2020 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

“But the Common Man does not in the least want to found a sect. He is much more likely, for instance, to want to found a family.” – G.K. Chesterton Anthony Malizia, was born on September 14, 1911 in Settefrati, … Continue reading →

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The Strife Is Over!

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

HE IS RISEN! The strife is o’er, the battle done, … Continue reading →

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Lenten Repost

Posted on March 19, 2020 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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The Patchwork

Posted on January 17, 2020 by Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author

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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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