Prayer Life - Use It or Lose It
Use it or lose it! I’ve heard this expression countless times in my life applied to countless situations. The context I can probably...
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Robert LeBlanc
- Dec 7, 2020
- 3 min
The Great Spiritual Reset
Throughout my life, New Years’ has been a moment of promise and renewal. As we turn the calendar over, there is the promise of a blank...
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Robert LeBlanc
- Nov 24, 2020
- 4 min
Why Do We Fear The End Times?
As we approach the end of the liturgical calendar, with Advent just around the corner, the Church in her infinite wisdom presents us with...
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Robert LeBlanc
- Oct 12, 2020
- 6 min
Crying the Confiteor
I’ve always been a little bit on the sappy side. Ever since I was a kid, it hasn’t taken a whole lot to get me to tear up. At a very...
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Robert LeBlanc
- Aug 21, 2020
- 3 min
Right-Ordering the Commandments
The more I read and the more I sit back and watch the world go by, the more I come to realize that we’ve got our priorities backwards. By...
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Robert LeBlanc
- Feb 23, 2020
- 4 min
Lenten Sacrifice = Easter Habit
Sometimes I think it’s worse than Christmas… Every year Lent sneaks up on me, and I feel unprepared; left scrambling to put together a...
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Robert LeBlanc
- Jan 18, 2020
- 2 min
When Waking Up Takes Heroic Effort
Like most people, I think the hardest moment of my day is the first. Monday to Friday (along with the odd Saturday and Sunday) we all...
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Robert LeBlanc
- Dec 5, 2019
- 2 min
Have a mary (not a martha) christmas
Each year Christmas seems to blow through our home like a tornado… There’s a low dark rumbling that grows in intensity through December...
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Robert LeBlanc
- Jul 9, 2019
- 2 min
Defending God's Holy Name
Waiting for a wayward student on the school bus a few years back, my colleague and I did a roll call to figure out who was missing. The...
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Robert LeBlanc
- May 3, 2019
- 4 min
Making a Plan for prayer
Prayer takes work. It’s true that even the youngest child can prattle off a prayer learned by heart, and many adults will mumble through...
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Robert LeBlanc
- Apr 14, 2019
- 4 min
Keeping Holy Week Holy
It seems like only yesterday we were surprised by the fact that, yet again, Lent had snuck up on us, and we weren’t ready to make our...
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Robert LeBlanc
- Apr 3, 2019
- 4 min
Why catholics fast
Why is it on days that I’m fasting, all I can do is think about food? It doesn’t help matters either when all the billboards are for...
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Robert LeBlanc
- Mar 2, 2019
- 4 min
3 Ways adoration betters my life
Some days it’s for 10 minutes. If I’m lucky, it’s for 15. But if I’m honest with myself, most days it’s for 5 minutes, 7 tops. I know...
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Robert LeBlanc
- Feb 8, 2019
- 7 min
marriage strengthened by faith
In our consumerist society, it seems as if anything and everything has become a commodity; disposable. Fulfilment is rooted in having the...
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Robert LeBlanc
- Jan 4, 2019
- 2 min
Welcome to catholic moment
Welcome to Catholic Moment. I hope and pray that by journeying together we will both be able to not only discover the riches that the...
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