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Tender Care for our Neighbor Helps the Family

People today will have as many problems as the amount of material goods they acquire. They neither thank God for His benefactions, nor notice the grief of their fellow-man that they may provide some kind of charity. They squander what they have and don’t even think of their neighbor who does not even have enough [...]

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Let Us Make God the Ruler of Our Life

—Geronta, in the Gospel, why is the Kingdom of God likened to a mustard seed: “It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all [...]

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