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By Julian Kwasniewski, Catholic Exchange - Authors which manage to help us think for ourselves without burdening our minds with their own thoughts are quite refreshing. They open doors without dragging us through them; when the author has shown us something interesting, we find ourselves walking through of our own accord!... Such is New Nazareths In Us, a slim book of sermons and meditations published last year by a New England parish priest. Most of his meditations are barely a page and a half long. As he says in the foreword, “we are dealing, not with a legal brief or a position paper, but with relaxed, and yet reasoned, out-loud thinking.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - After Christ rose from the dead, He appeared to His disciples at certain places and times, but did not seem to stay with them continuously. On the first Easter Sunday, He appeared six times in rather rapid succession: first to Mary Magdalene, then to the women at the tomb, third as the women left the tomb, fourth to Peter, fifth to the two disciples going to Emmaus, and sixth to the ten Apostles in Jerusalem (when Thomas was not present).