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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
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After the events of the life of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, few divine interventions have had a more profound effect on human history as the appearance of Our Lady in Mexico City to Saint Juan Diego. Yet she came so tenderly and personally: such is Mary’s way! Faced with an impossible situation, she was able to open a new path that others could not imagine!
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What’s wrong with us? What went wrong in human history? Advent is a time to ponder and to wonder about our world that is so problematic, yet so important to the Lord that He himself comes to save it!
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Have you ever felt that your job, your marriage, or your life has fallen into “the same, old same old”? Have you cried out sometime, “O God, can’t You change this?” “Why don’t You make COVID go away?”
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John and Mary Peyton planted the mustard seed of the Kingdom of God in the heart of their son Patrick from the time he was small as the family gathered every evening to pray the Rosary in the kitchen of their peasant farmhouse in Ireland a hundred years ago.
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One of the most moving moments in PRAY, the beautiful film we have recently released on the life and Mission of Venerable Patrick Peyton, is when Peter and Patty MacEntee tell their Rosary story. They recall that a few years into their marriage, already with a couple of kids, their life got listless and their marriage hard. Peter admits that he didn’t want to let go of the supposed freedom of sports all the time and drinking with his buddies… Patty was feeling left alone… But then Peter says that from watching EWTN he heard of Father Peyton and the importance of praying the Rosary at home… So they decided to try. Peter talks of their first Rosary together… You can see the memory brings tears to his eyes … He said it was really awkward… yet a really intimate moment… They opened themselves to each other – AND, TOGETHER, TO GOD Beautiful. Powerful in a gentle way… They say then that their decision to pray the family Rosary every day saved their marriage and has been one of the most important decisions in their married life.
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Soon after becoming Pope, St. John Paul II proclaimed: Open wide the doors to Christ: Do not be afraid. Words that reverberated throughout his papacy … and words we need to hear now!
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