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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton

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Venerable Patrick Peyton  |  family prayer  |  rosary novena

Day 3: A Family Novena Celebrating Venerable Patrick Peyton's Birth

Please join our community around the world in praying this novena for your family and all families. We do this for the nine days leading up to Venerable Patrick Peyton's anniversary of birth on January 9 in gratitude for his memory and timeless message to all families, "The Family That Prays Together Stays Together."

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Venerable Patrick Peyton  |  family prayer  |  rosary novena

Day 2: A Family Novena Celebrating Venerable Patrick Peyton's Birth

Please join our community around the world in praying this novena for your family and all families. We do this for the nine days leading up to Venerable Patrick Peyton's anniversary of birth on January 9 in gratitude for his memory and timeless message to all families, "The Family That Prays Together Stays Together."

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Venerable Patrick Peyton  |  family prayer  |  rosary novena

Day 1: A Family Novena Celebrating Venerable Patrick Peyton's Birth

Please join our community around the world in praying this novena for your family and all families. We do this for nine days, finishing on Venerable Patrick Peyton's anniversary of birth on January 9. As we pray, we also thank God for Father Peyton's memory and his timeless message to all families, "The Family That Prays Together Stays Together."

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Father Patrick Peyton  |  family prayer  |  rosary novena

A Family Novena Celebrating Venerable Patrick Peyton's Birth

There is no better way to start off the New Year than in prayer—as a family and for your family. As our ministry founder and sainthood candidate, Father Patrick Peyton, used to remind the world, "The family that prays together stays together." Take that to heart this year and what an amazing year it will be!

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Christmas Season  |  family prayer  |  how to pray the rosary

Incorporating Prayer into the Advent and Christmas Seasons

During the time between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, prayer often loses the place of priority we place on it in the rest of the year. Our to-do lists bloom and we feel ever more the pinch of the shortness of time in the Advent and Christmas seasons. Families rush the Advent season to hasten in Christmas long before our calendars reach the 24th of December. Advent and Christmas, like the season of Lent, are profound moments in our Liturgical year where the first movement of our hearts should be toward our Lord, especially how we encounter Him through prayer.

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Month of the Rosary  |  how to pray the rosary  |  praytherosary  |  spiritual benefits of the rosary

Reasons We Turn to the Rosary in Prayer

While prayer may not change our circumstances, it will often change our hearts. It brings us closer to God in a way that allows Him to comfort us, guide us, and occasionally reveal His will for us. At the very least, communication with God always brings peace.

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