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Michael Brannigan: Giving the gift of mercy is a burden - and a liberation Michael C. Brannigan FacebookTwitterEmail This season of light comes with an extraordinarily heavy burden, one that is our choice to accept or not. Amidst the gift-giving, our most difficult though precious offering remains that of mercy. As in the following disturbing parable, this is no light task. On Oct. 2, 2006, 32 year-old Charles Roberts IV, a local milk truck driver in the rural community of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, entered the one-room Amish schoolhouse and at gunpoint ordered the adults and all boys to lea...

Blessings in a bag Wednesday, December 23, 2020 10:18 AM KALIDA — Seventh-grade Confraternity of Christian Doctrine students at Kalida St. Michael’s Catholic Church plan to give away blessings during the next several weeks. The ‘blessings’ they will offer are not spoken words but actual ‘blessing bags’ that provide essentials for someone. Recently 21 students in the CCD class gathered to assemble the bags that included a bottle of water, gloves, socks, toothpaste, shampoo, hand warmers, Chapstick, hand sanitizer, granola bars, raisins, and other items. The students don...