Deacon Bob Evans
If Only For a Little While
Today is All Souls Day, the day on which we remember our loved ones who have gone before us. Our ability to remember is one of God’s...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Oct 13, 2019
- 3 min
Why We Believe
You are so special to God that, at the moment of His choosing, He breathed life into you, and you became a human being. It was then that...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Sep 29, 2019
- 5 min
Having No Burden to Carry
Shortly after the first Christian missionaries came, in 1834, to the region in northern India known as the Punjab, two monks were...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Sep 11, 2019
- 4 min
Cries of the Heart
Exhausted, they hurried away from the city and into the morning sunrise. They needed a place to hide; they could just see their village...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Sep 2, 2019
- 4 min
You Are Not Helpless, I Am Here
Remember, O most compassionate Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Aug 4, 2019
- 5 min
He Said You'd Do What is Right
It had snowed during the night and Ben sensed a sacred silence in the air as he looked out the window. He’s served as the only teacher in...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Jul 21, 2019
- 4 min
Strangers at the Door
There’s an old Hebrew saying that goes: “The stranger at your door is a guest sent by God.” That saying has its roots in the passage from...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Jul 6, 2019
- 3 min
Walking in Twilight
For many of us, life seems a lot more difficult these days. Some of it, of course, is because we’ve aged. But, life itself seems much...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Jun 21, 2019
- 4 min
Father’s Day, Great Good from the Most Unexpected
There's an inspiring connection between the Parable of the Mustard Seed and the origins of Father's Day. Let me explain.
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Jun 9, 2019
- 10 min
Jesus’ Encounter with Woman in Tyre -2
As I pointed out in my previous post, both Matthew and Mark tell us that, following their celebrating Passover in Jerusalem, Jesus had...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- May 25, 2019
- 9 min
Jesus’ Encounter with Woman in Tyre -1
In my first post, I said that I like to bring Scripture passages alive by placing them in the social and cultural contexts in which they...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- May 10, 2019
- 4 min
It Seemed to Fall on Their Hearts
The tragic fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, on April 15, 2019, has had a more visceral effect on many people than we might have...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Apr 26, 2019
- 3 min
Embracing Mercy
If only we better understood mercy, I think more people would readily embrace God’s Divine Mercy. Sadly, in recent times, the English...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Apr 11, 2019
- 4 min
Why Did Jesus Have to Suffer?
As we approach Holy Week, my thoughts go to a passage in Luke’s Gospel which is one of the alternate readings for Easter Sunday [Luke...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Apr 3, 2019
- 6 min
Beliefs That Hold Us Together
People have always been aware of their differences with others, whether it’s ethnicity, or social status, or education, or religious...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Mar 22, 2019
- 4 min
My First Post
Hi, I’m Dcn. Bob Evans and I’ve been a deacon in the Roman Catholic Church for more than 12 years. I’m accustomed to speaking to people...
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