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## Leonard J. DeLorenzo
Leonard J. DeLorenzo is the director of Notre Dame Vision, the Notre Dame Catechist Academy, and the Notre Dame Character Project.
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## [Daily Prayer, the Incarnation, and the Discipline of Harmony](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/03/14/daily-prayer-the-incarnation-and-the-discipline-of-harmony)
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Few would expect that recovering a traditional Catholic devotion would appeal to the imagination of teenagers. After all, making faith appealing to young people seems to require efforts to excite the senses and incite emotion. While such strategies of evangelization may have their place, praying the Angelus once daily with hundreds of high school students and another 70 college students last summe...
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## [Three Steps to a Better Understanding of the Year of Mercy](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/02/09/three-steps-to-a-better-understanding-of-the-year-of-mercy)
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The Year of Mercy is a call to action, but first of all, it is a call to contemplate the action of God. In the words of Pope Francis, “We need constantly to contemplate the mystery of mercy.” But contemplation is really hard work; it takes tremendous effort to learn to receive well, to take up a posture of willed passivity in the manner of Jesus’ Immaculate Mother who “\[heard\] the Word of God and ...
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