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From Mass to Half Marathon

Today, I ran the ‘Halve van Hoogland’, a half marathon starting and ending in one of my parishes (Hoogland), in about 1 hour and 51 minutes.
I’m still waiting for the official times, but I think I was a bit faster than last year, even though I wasn’t in optimal shape: I have a bit of a [...]

Why I am an Early Riser

Why I am an Early Riser

During most of my student years, I had great difficulty getting up in the morning. I worked until late at night, went to bed at 1 or 2 am, and needed gallons of coffee the next morning to get me anywhere.
That has changed dramatically. I now usually wake up at 6 am in the morning [...]

Priests should stay fit and healthy

Priests should stay fit and healthy

Catholic News Service posted an interesting story about the need for priests to live a healthier life. It’s easy for clergy to fall into a sedentary lifestyle with a work schedule that has them on call 24 hours every day of the week.

The Ten Commandments of the Environment

The Ten Commandments of the Environment

The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace presented Ten Commandments of the Environment in a message for World Environment Day last week. The document explains in 10 points the most important aspects of the chapter on the environment in the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

Your keyboard is dirtier than a toilet seat – here’s how you clean it!

Your keyboard is dirtier than a toilet seat – here’s how you clean it!

“[The priests] shall teach my people to distinguish between the sacred and the profane, and make known to them the difference between the clean and the unclean” (Ezekiël 44,23)
We all take a shower, wash our hands and brush our teeth regularly. But did you know that the biggest source of diseases, infections and food poisoning is [...]

Sleep more to lose weight

Sleep more to lose weight

“It is vain for you to rise early and put off your rest at night, To eat bread earned by hard toil – all this God gives to his beloved in sleep” (Psalm 127)


Father Roderick Vonhögen is a priest of the Archdiocese of Utrecht, the Netherlands and CEO of the international Catholic New Media Organization SQPN.com.

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