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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Power of Forgiveness | forgiveness | healing through forgiveness | homily
There’s a little story about some United States military veterans of Vietnam standing by the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. When asked about his captors in Vietnam, one of them said, “I’ll never forgive them.” His friend replied, “Then it seems that they still have you in prison, don’t they?”
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“I don’t know what’s going to become of you!” How many parents have said that to their children? Or how many of us have grown up hearing this? Maximilan Kolbe was a naughty child. Whenever Maximilian Mary Kolbe heard this comment, his reaction was, “I prayed very hard to Our Lady to tell me what would happen to me.”
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Strengthening family unity | Why pray?
Saint Matthew’s emphasis on Jesus' wondrous deeds enables him to reveal Jesus’ true Messianic identity. In the Old Testament, Moses commanded the sea with his rod; Joshua with the Ark of the Covenant; Elisha with the prophet's mantle, but Jesus calms the Sea of Galilee with His Word.
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Holy lives of inspiration | Return to the Church
During just another day with the sheep in the desert, Moses' life was about to change suddenly.
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Holy lives of inspiration | Why pray?
British author Douglas Hyde once wrote for the Communist Daily. To smear the Catholic Church, he bought Avro Manhattan's The Catholic Church Against the Nineteenth Century. He read it, but something strange happened. He writes: "Instead of giving ammunition against the Church, I learned something about the Church's social teaching. Avro Manhattan wrote the book to make people anti-Catholics. It helped make me 'pro' Catholic instead."
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Although I'm not a big boxing or wrestling fan, Mary Kom makes the sport interesting for Indians. Defeating world-renowned North Korean Jang Song Ae in boxing, Mary returned home as a hero.
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