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IRA Transfers
President Barack Obama signed the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010 into law on December 17th, 2010. This law extended the IRA Rollover provision first introduced in 2006 and gives you the opportunity to make …
Categories: Personal Call
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Chat with the Drapers, Lay Missionaries in Chile
David and Anna Draper are lay missionaries with the Columban Fathers, currently living and working in Chile. Chat with them by asking questions before or during our live chat.
Categories: Chats, Chile Updates
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Making an impact on others
The Church is the entire People of God, and every baptized person is sent forth to continue Christ’s mission. How have you impacted others with the Gospel values of unlimited forgiveness, justice for the oppressed and liberation for prisoners? Has …
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Respect for all faiths
Dialogue is the setting within which our faith is shared with others, and in which we discover the spiritual riches of other spiritual traditions. In a world filled with conflicts and wars often labeled “religious”, how can we offer alternative …
Categories: Faith and Issues Forum
Opening yourself up for mission
Mission is seriously ineffective until we open up to, get to know and work together with Christians from other Churches and Communities. How have you been reaching out and working alongside other Christians in order to give a common witness to …
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Protecting ourselves from seemingly worthy advancements
God created us to care for Creation. Genetic engineering seems to be a way to produce better food and medicines, but do we really know the long-term effects? How can we protect ourselves and get more information on what private …
Categories: Faith and Issues Forum
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Causes of poverty, and how it relates to our own lives
Poverty damages human beings by denying them what is necessary to live, and is an everyday reality in many of the countries we work in as members of the Missionary Society of St. Columban. Rather than resign ourselves to this …
Categories: Personal Call
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The Church is enriched through ethnic variety
Our Church is enriched by the cultures of many peoples, and no longer identified with only one geographical area of the earth. Everything that is good and holy in a particular society’s way of life is welcome in the Church. …
Categories: Personal Call
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Caring for neighbors near and far
Keeping in mind God’s call that we are all one body, how should the government create a compassionate yet fair approach to minimizing illegal immigration?
Categories: Faith and Issues Forum
Self-sustaining good
The Columbans believe in self-sustaining projects, meaning those that provide value for future generations. Examples include developing food and energy in a way that doesn’t harm or waste other resources. What are other ways we can help our friends in …
Categories: From the Mission
Who doesn’t have memories of being called to the table with the love and intimacy that comes with a life shared day-to- day? These also were Jesus’ words to His beloved ones
