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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
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Having grown up in a city, Jesus’ instruction to “be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves” only made partial sense to me. I get the idea of shrewdness in order to watch your back or anyone else’s who is part of your flock. But the "simple as doves" has always seemed to be a contradiction to the vigilance part of the instruction.
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Yesterday’s gospel ended with Jesus telling his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” God always has a plan. Jesus was telling His closest disciples of great potential and yet a lack of those to do the work of God. So, He tells them to ask God for laborers to accomplish the work, the mission.
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In the Book of Genesis, we learn that Abraham’s life doesn't always go smoothly, even after God blesses him and his wife, Sarah, with a son, Isaac, in their old age.
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Have you ever noticed how God can teach us when we least expect it? The story of Abram is a great example. There he was at the age of 99, pretty certain of the last chapter of his life, and then God appeared and revealed what He intended in what He offered Abram and Sarai. God can do the same for us, and I’d bet already has for each of you in varied ways.
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Yesterday, Father Fred, Father Pinto, Father Boby, and I had a day of recollection. We went to an exotic place called East Freetown, Massachusetts. Actually, it’s not a resort community but a parish named St. John Neumann. It is also the location of a former Catholic summer camp that I attended as a child. It’s a beautiful location on a lake surrounded by tall oak trees. As we began our day, I shared that the first time I was at this location, I was nine years old — just twenty years ago! In reality, it was in 1974 when President Nixon resigned!
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After reading and praying over today’s Gospel, I thought of a question: “How’s your prayer life?” What would you say if you could answer that question confidentially? Would you say good, fair, not so good, or I don’t know?
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