The faith had remained intact through the gifts of grace that had gladdened the life of a laity who had received only baptism and had also lived their apostolic mission in virtue of baptism alone.

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We unite, recognizing that such crises call on all of us to act, recognizing that there but for the grace of God go I, recognizing that life's most sacred responsibility -- one affirmed, as Hillary said, by all of the world's great religions -- is to sacrifice something of ourselves for a person in need.

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By the standards of some of the flashy self-promoters that grace our pages, Malone lives a quiet life.

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There are passages in Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend of staggering power and grace.

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Qualities that with her passing, we too - by the grace of God - may seek to put on afresh, in our own lives and the life of our nation and world.

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"It's very sad that young people who have so much promise, who were bestowed by life with all the grace in the world and an unquestionable talent, because of ambition, bad advice or simply to obtain money see themselves in situations like this, " he said.

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"Now that I've been filled in by friends about how difficult her troubled son (the shooter) was making things for her, I understand that it wasn't that Nancy was overwrought about the trivialities of everyday life, but that she was handling a very difficult situation with uncommon grace, " Mr. Leff wrote on the blog.

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