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Robert LeBlanc

Feb 23
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 Lenten sacrifice. Forc...

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Robert LeBlanc

Jan 18
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 dread it… that moment w...

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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 that culminates in a...

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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 bus was quiet, and ab...

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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 the prayers at Mass w...

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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 Lenten sacrifice. Ash W...

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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 restaurants, all the TV ...

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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 that I’m blessed to wor...

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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 most up-to-date and...

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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 Catholic Church has to ...

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