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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
"It is in Our Lady that God fell in love with Humanity." Since we celebrated the Annunciation last week I have been meditating on this thought that Caryll Houselander wrote in her beautiful work, The Reed of God. "It is in Our Lady that God fell in love with Humanity." This points to so much...
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The most important event in human history happened because a 14-year-old Jewish girl said “YES” to God. That’s amazing! Nothing compares to the death and resurrection of Jesus. It was the climax of His life which began when the Angel presented himself to Mary. Through her “YES," the Infinite Divinity truly united to Himself our all-too-limited humanity. That’s wonderful!
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The Mission had been really intense and finally they had some time apart with the Master. They had tried to find a quiet place and the crowds even followed them there, leading the Lord to feed 5000 men from five loaves and 2 fish! It was overwhelming for the disciples. What was going on?
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“Lent, are you kidding me?” one might comment. “Haven’t we had enough penance from Covid already?” However, Lent does indeed begin in a few days – and rather than another burden, it comes as a big help to us now!
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So, we hear of Jesus performing a great miracle. He makes a blind man see. But what really happened? Did He not do it right the first time? He laid hands on him but then the guy doesn’t get fully cured, right? Then there’s the part about using His spit: that seems least pretty strange, doesn’t it? However, we certainly know that Jesus doesn’t make mistakes. So what's really going on here?
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It was fifteen years ago when I first visited the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, in the south of France. Getting there was a bit crazy, as travel can be, but the stress only served to highlight what happened when I finally arrived and set foot on the Sanctuary domain: an extraordinary peace settled on my entire being.
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