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Live the new life in Christ!!
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The Resurrection is not just an event to remember - It is a new life to live.
Testimony: "I know that Jesus resurr
This development is of course the end of the beginning. One can look forward to other ministries emerging apart from co-leading funeral rites with the priest. Having a lay person standing beside a pri
I spent an evening and a morning with Peter Phan, who left VIetnam with his 11 siblings in 1975, spent 50 years teaching in the USA, and says he has now learned to live at last, after migrating to Luc
Jesus and Peter
15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jes
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