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		<title>Ten Years is a Long Run&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katrina Fernandez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2015 23:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saying Goodbye]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[… Ten years ago I sat down and wrote my first blog post. My intended audience was simply a few family members who had questions about Catholicism as I went through the RCIA process. They wanted to know what exactly I was converting to. Actually, I think they thought I was joining a cult and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spiritually Preparing for Advent&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katrina Fernandez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Advent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Renewal]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[… Catholics love to decorate. After my conversion I joked with my sponsor that I needed to go home and redecorate now, remembering how every Catholic I’d ever met had a house full of tchotchke. I think this habit to modify our exterior surroundings is a reflection of our interior call of continuous conversion. Not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Decorating for Advent&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katrina Fernandez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Advent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Behaving Badly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bat Shit Crazy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Tree]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[… Seems like the Advent calendar gets all the attention this time of year, understandably so. There are so many different types of Advent calendars and Advent wreath craft projects to choose from that people often forget another type of Advent tradition. The Jesse Tree.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>November Nun Gazing&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katrina Fernandez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Nun Gazing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chopped]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominicans Nuns of Summit NJ]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[… Nuns are real life superheroes. If you take a woman and enhance her good virtues, give her the supernatural power of devotion and faith, then throw a cape on her, you got yourself a nun. Maybe that’s why our gaze tends to be naturally drawn to them and their ability to inspire simply by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rosary Mysteries in Fine Art &#8211; Luminous Mysteries&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katrina Fernandez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Art Renewal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fine Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luminous Mysteries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Month of the Rosary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rosary]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[… So far this month I’ve featured portraits and rosary symbolism in fine art. Now I want to focus on the particular mysteries of the rosary to illustrate how the devotion, while wholly Marian in nature, is also a meditation on the life of Christ. Thursday we pray the Luminous Mysteries, which are dedicated to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>68,000 Photos of Pope Francis&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katrina Fernandez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 21:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Vaticanista]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Yoder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Geographic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Francis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vatican]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[… National Geographic photographer Dave Yoder had access to Pope Francis at the Vatican for six months, which resulted in 68,000 photos. This is my favorite. Naturally. There are other nice ones too. Click to view a preview gallery of 12 images by Photojournalist Dave Yoder.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Devastating Fire Destroys Historic Chicago Church&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thecrescat/2015/10/devastating-fire-destroys-historic-chicago-church.html</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katrina Fernandez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 21:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infant of Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institute of Christ the King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reverend Canon Matthew Talarico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shrine of Christ the King Sovereign Priest]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[… Shrine of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in Chicago suffered a tragic fire yesterday. The church was severely damaged and they are asking for our prayers and financial help as they raise funds for the rebuilding campaign. On their GoFundMe page they write; On October 7th, a fire broke out in the Shrine of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Symbols of the Virgin Mary&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thecrescat/2015/10/symbols-of-the-virgin-mary.html</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katrina Fernandez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2015 22:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Art Renewal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Real]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call Your Mother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dirck de Bray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fine Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Month of the Rosary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[October]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rosary]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[… Taking this month’s theme of the rosary in a direction away from portraits, today’s Rosary in Fine Art example is a still life by Dirck de Bray c. 1672. This particular still life incorporates symbolism associated with the Blessed Virgin Mary: the rose, a rosary, rosemary, the thurible, and the crown. To see previous [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Portrait of a Widow at Her Devotions&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katrina Fernandez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2015 00:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Art Renewal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Real]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bassano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fine Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Month of the Rosary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virgin Mary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widow]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[… Keeping with this month’s theme, the Holy Rosary. Leandro Bassano, c. 1590 Widow at Her Devtions The newly widowed women prays before a painting of the Birth of the Virgin Mary. See previous examples of the rosary in fine art.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Benedicta Chant CD Cures Road Rage&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thecrescat/2015/10/benedicta-chant-cd-cures-road-rage.html</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katrina Fernandez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2015 00:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[The Real]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benedicta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norcia]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[… Have you purchased or downloaded Benedicta, Marian chant from the monks of Norcia yet? No? What, you don’t like church bells and heavenly chant? I love that the CD opens up with the deep resonating peal of church bells, the Catholic call to prayer. That’s what Benedicta is, a call to prayer. I listen [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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