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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Homily Video | Learn more about our faith | family prayer
Today’s first reading helps us to see that sometimes we simply need a reminder. For we can forget what God has done for us. Amid the busyness of life, fatigue, or even success, we can forget how many times God has been patient or helped us. All the times He’s forgiven us and given us another chance. And, at times, we can become discouraged by our failures and lose sight of God’s grace at work in our lives amidst the struggles.
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Long before computer games, TV, and other sedentary indoor games came to dominate families, children in good-weather places used to play outside in the open. They acted out roles that were dominant in society then. They played policemen, soldiers, lumberjacks, builders, farmers, priests, teachers, and housewives. They acted out social events like funerals, and weddings. They climbed trees to look for fruit, they rode bicycles and they competed among themselves in soccer and sprints. It was an active, creative, and outdoorsy world for most children. Watch Here
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Congregation of Holy Cross | Learn more about our faith | Our Lady of Sorrows
Yesterday we celebrated the feast of the Triumph of the Cross. Now we celebrate the memorial of our Lady of the Sorrows. We honor the Blessed Virgin Mary and her deep sufferings and the grief during the life and passion of Jesus Christ. We take time to reflect on Mary’s sorrows, a woman who let her trust in God hold her in the darkest moments.
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Learn more about our faith | Video homily | Weekday homily
There is something wonderfully strange about today’s feast. We call it the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and yet the Cross was never meant to exalt anyone. Rome designed it to humiliate, expose, and crush. And yet we Christians take that very instrument and raise it above the altar. If a first century Roman executioner walked into a church today and saw a crucifix hanging over the sanctuary, he might think we had developed a very unusual sense of interior decoration. But we raise the Cross because God has completely changed its meaning. What was meant to reduce humanity has become the place where humanity is lifted up.
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Celebrating Marian feasts | Our Lady of Sorrows | Seven Sorrows of Mary
Michelle Hamel shares the lessons she has learned as a mother from meditating on the Seven Sorrows of Mary.
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Homily Video | Learn more about our faith | catholic devotions
Each year, September 11 calls us to remember. We remember the terrible loss of life, the fear and confusion, and the courage of so many ordinary people who heroically chose to put the lives of others before their own. One of those people was Welles Crowther, now known by many as “the Man in the Red Bandana.” On September 11, 2001, Welles was working on the 104th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center. As others desperately tried to escape, he did something remarkable: he went back up. Wearing a red bandana over his mouth and nose, he helped guide people to safety. Survivors later recalled the young man with the red bandana who carried injured people, gave encouragement, and repeatedly returned into danger to save others. Welles Crowther did not survive the tower's eventual collapse. But because of his courage, many others did.
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