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

Father Jim Phalan, C.S.C.

Father James Phalan, C.S.C., is a Catholic priest, member of the Congregation of Holy Cross and the National Director of Family Rosary. He served as a missionary for many years travelling the globe to help people come to Jesus through Mary as part of the Family Rosary team. Now he is happy to be serving back at home in the USA!

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Blessed Virgin Mary  |  Month of the Rosary

Our Mother in Faith

As I write, I am at the Lourdes Sanctuary in France, serving, once again, in our Rosary Center in this holy place. Being here, I give thanks that Mary is our Mother. Particularly here, I have come to grow in my understanding and experience of how she leads us deeper and calls us closer to Christ. She truly is our Mother in Faith. She calls us all to cry out with her, “My soul magnifies the Lord,” in our own lives, now!

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Holy lives of inspiration  |  Learn more about our faith

The Nativity of Mary

Mary’s birth is not recorded in the Bible. What we celebrate on September 8 each year is not Mary’s birthday in the traditional sense, but we honor the blessing of her being born. The word nativity refers to the circumstance or occasion of one being born.

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Holy lives of inspiration

Preach the Message of St. Paul - Family Reflection Video

Saint Paul loved the young Christian Community at Corinth. He knew the Lord had led him to them – in those first years of the Church. Corinth was a thriving port city near Athens. It was a pagan and, often, immoral place.

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Return to the Church  |  Strengthening family unity

Jesus, I Trust in You - Family Reflection Video

Sometimes, after hearing someone’s confession, I’ll offer them the penance of sitting quietly, preferably before the Blessed Sacrament, with Rosary in hand, moving from bead to bead through all the decades, silently repeating, “Jesus, I trust in You.”

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seasonal reflection

The Assumption of Mary: Visions of Creation and New Creation

We kayaked across Yellowstone’s Lewis Lake, up the Lewis River and halfway across Shoshone Lake to the campsite. Stepping out, stepping back, a different perspective unfolded as we celebrated the Eucharist on the shore. This gaze opened into infinity, finding and awakening vision: the faculty to be able to see and to understand, where sometimes only nature can reawaken this sense. At the same time, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15, in a similar and complementary way awakens our vision, yet with even greater clarity and depth.

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Holy lives of inspiration

A Martyr for Truth and Love - Family Reflection Video

Edith Stein, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross: a beautiful person, a seeker of truth and love who found her way in Christ. A Martyr for Truth and Love. A great sister for us and a model for our times.

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