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		<title>Igreja Matriz de Santo André</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2013/03/igreja-matriz-de-santo-andre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something special to go to daily mass at the church where I became a son of God, the Igreja Matriz de Santo André.  And not only I, but so many in my family as well.  As far as &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2013/03/igreja-matriz-de-santo-andre/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord!</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2012/06/the-lord-gave-and-the-lord-has-taken-away-blessed-be-the-name-of-the-lord/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Job and Peter are rather prominent figures in the Holy Scriptures.  Though the book of Job is just one among the wisdom books of the Old Testament, his story resonates with that of many people living their own hardships, inevitable &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2012/06/the-lord-gave-and-the-lord-has-taken-away-blessed-be-the-name-of-the-lord/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Ecstasy of Sts. Monica and Augustine</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2011/08/the-ecstasy-of-sts-monica-and-augustine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 01:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Teresa defined contemplative prayer as &#8220;nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.&#8221; (Life 8:5)  Of course, St. Teresa meant the friendship between God &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2011/08/the-ecstasy-of-sts-monica-and-augustine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Lady of Mount Carmel</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2011/07/our-lady-of-mount-carmel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our Lady of Mt. Carmel&#8221; is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in connection with her apparition to St. Simon Stock, prior general of the Carmelite Order, late in the 13th century in England.  In this apparition, Our &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2011/07/our-lady-of-mount-carmel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus Was Led by the Spirit into the Desert</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2011/03/jesus-was-led-by-the-spirit-into-the-desert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the 40 days of Lent start, let us rejoice in expectation for what lies on the other side of it. <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2011/03/jesus-was-led-by-the-spirit-into-the-desert/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>OCDS Profession</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2010/04/ocds-profession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Profession ofEvandro of the Good Shepherdin theSecular Order ofDiscalced Carmelites Sunday, April 18, 2010at 11:00 in the Chapel Cedarbrake Retreat Center5602 N Hwy. 317, Belton, TX Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Please, pray that Our Lord grants me the &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2010/04/ocds-profession/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lady Poverty</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2009/08/lady-poverty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the second chapter of St. Teresa of Avila&#8217;s &#8220;Way of Perfection&#8221;, she refers to how St. Clare of Assisi described the Evangelical counsel of Poverty as providing tall walls around a community. I had never thought of the Evangelical &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2009/08/lady-poverty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Lord and my God!</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2009/05/my-lord-and-my-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 05:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[+JMJ+]]></description>
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		<title>Christ Is Risen!</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2008/03/christ-is-risen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever Holy Thursday comes and the Triduum starts, Lent ends with the apex of the Last Supper, immediately followed by the nadir of the removal of the Blessed Sacrament from the church. Then, the church is not the House of &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2008/03/christ-is-risen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Imagery</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2007/12/imagery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some films and paintings that have left an impression in my imagination even after years having last seen them. I cherish to recall some of these works of art, in particular when saying the Rosary to deepen my &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2007/12/imagery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Pater and the Beatitudes</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2007/09/the-pater-and-the-beatitudes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must say that after the previous post I refrained from adding new ones until I could jog down my thoughts on the remaining four petitions of the Pater. But it never happened and this journal ended up neglected. After &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2007/09/the-pater-and-the-beatitudes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Three Desires</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/10/three-desires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Thomas Aquinas refers to the first three verses of the Pater as desires. But desires for what? For things that only God can give: graces. But which graces? The three desires that begin the Pater are: Hallowed be your &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/10/three-desires/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Father in the Garden</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/08/our-father-in-the-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really like the way that St. Thomas Aquinas subdivided the Pater: three desires and four petitions. In these three desires we were taught to approach God as His children, asking to live in His house according to His love. &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/08/our-father-in-the-garden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bouquets</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/05/bouquets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 06:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Paul tells us that it&#8217;s necessary to pray always (1 Th 5:17) and this sentence has mesmerized me, not unlike how the Pilgrim was mesmerized by it in The Way of a Pilgrim, where I first read about it. &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/05/bouquets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Going On</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/05/going-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 20:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only now I realize that it&#8217;s been about a year since I&#8217;ve started to pray the Rosary daily. A Lent later, I can say that it&#8217;s been like a new Easter for me. Jesus calls all of us to holiness, &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/05/going-on/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Divine Mercy Sunday</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/04/divine-mercy-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a very long hiatus, a friend encouraged me to post again. I thank him very much, for, as someone suggested me before I started this blog, it is quite profitable to me to collect my thoughts when writing here, &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/04/divine-mercy-sunday/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shower Us</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/02/shower-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2006 03:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someday this past week, I don&#8217;t really know how, I found myself meditating on the Pater when saying the Rosary. I&#8217;m sure I didn&#8217;t find out anything new about the Lord&#8217;s Prayer, but I thought I&#8217;d share my thoughts here. &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/02/shower-us/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Variations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2006 06:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not that I am preoccupied with the order of the Mysteries of the Rosary to bring it up again, but this week I had an idea that I wanted to give a try: repeat the traditional order on Thursday &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/02/variations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reigning my Pride</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/01/reigning-my-pride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2006 20:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I said before that I&#8217;ve struggled with keeping my mind in the mysteries and developed some techniques to help. Perhaps I&#8217;m not unlike others, however, when it comes to humility though. I&#8217;m tempted to say that I&#8217;m the champion of &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2006/01/reigning-my-pride/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Good Tidings and a Happy New Year</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/12/good-tidings-and-a-happy-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, I&#8217;m recalling the special coincidence on Christmas and now on the eve of the New Year: as I pray the 4 sets of mysteries of the Rosary, meditating on the Joyful mysteries on Christmas Eve and &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/12/good-tidings-and-a-happy-new-year/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>God with Us</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/12/god-with-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2005 05:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The greatest Christmas gift is Jesus Himself, &#8220;for God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son.&#8221; (Jn 3:16) And Jesus gave us life through His Spirit. God fulfilled in Him all His promises through the &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/12/god-with-us/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bead #10</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/12/bead-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After about nine months praying the Rosary daily, today I found out that my memory rosary has only nine Ave Maria beads! I&#8217;m puzzled how this could be&#8230; Perhaps a bead broke off, I suspect when I stepped on the &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/12/bead-10/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In Focus, Blurred</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/12/in-focus-blurred/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I said before, in order to keep my attention focused, even if only for a few moments, I repeat an ejaculation based on the Mystery being meditated on as I say the Ave Maria. It indeed helps when I &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/12/in-focus-blurred/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Where Was I?</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/12/where-was-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been posting new entries less often than I&#8217;d like. I prefer to post not long after a Confession and always after some time of prayer, but my busy days eat up all time. I could probably post from work, &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/12/where-was-i/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Before Him</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/11/before-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acquiring the habit of prayer does not make me holier. On the contrary, it makes me more aware of my sinfulness. My proud little soul is then tempted to recoil from prayer out of a misguided sense of shame. Yet, &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/11/before-him/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In the Meanders</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/11/in-the-meanders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I said before, I have great affection for some mysteries. However, some of them are indeed mysterious to me. Not that this makes them a chore to meditate on, quite the contrary, they invite deeper reflections, even if I&#8217;m &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/11/in-the-meanders/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reigning My Attention</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/11/reigning-my-attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I said earlier, I try to mean the words of the Rosary I pray. However, oftentimes I find myself having to wrangle the wandering mind back to the task. It seems that it&#8217;s sometimes easier for the heart to &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/11/reigning-my-attention/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In a Journey</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/10/in-a-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my soul looks back, it&#8217;s like it&#8217;s been with its eyes shut as a babe&#8217;s. As it shyly starts opening its eyes, it can see the light of the day at last. A day illuminated by Our Lord&#8217;s light, &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/10/in-a-journey/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In Order</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, it&#8217;s been a while since my last entry here! I&#8217;ve actually had to contain myself as I set the house in order. As I said before, I started praying the Rosary including John Paul II&#8217;s Luminous Mysteries. However, at &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/10/in-order/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>At home</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/10/at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My routine praying the Rosary works pretty well on weekdays, but I still struggle to find a routine that would work on weekends. Perhaps it&#8217;s got to do with the fact that I don&#8217;t have any deliberate routine on weekends, &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/10/at-home/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In the Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2005 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday there was a Rosary service in the church as part of the Respect Life month. It was the first time that I&#8217;ve ever prayed the Rosary along with the community, but, most important, it was also the first time &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/10/in-the-church/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary</title>
		<link>http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/10/feast-of-our-lady-of-the-rosary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2005 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t let this day pass by without adding an entry to this journal, a feast established almost 5 centuries ago, even then it was already a centuries-old popular devotion. There&#8217;s nothing I can add about the origins of the &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/10/feast-of-our-lady-of-the-rosary/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On the road</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fully equipped to then pray the Rosary, I went about it. I have to say that praying the Rosary didn&#8217;t change my routine of stopping at that small parish to say my morning prayers. So I figured it&#8217;d be better &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/10/on-the-road/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In the beginning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve ever prayed the Rosary before in a regular basis. As a matter of fact, at all only a couple of times before. Over 15 years ago, I thought I prayed the Rosary daily, or almost. I &#8230; <a href="http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com/2005/10/in-the-beginning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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