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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Healing the family | Holy lives of inspiration
What if the way of healing of humanity at the crossroads we find ourselves now were right before our very eyes, waiting only for us to see it and follow it?
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I was ordained a priest 30 years ago this month in a village high in the Andes Mountains, in the south of Peru, on the shores of Lake Titicaca. The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, also known as the Purification, is a huge celebration in Peru.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is like the mustard seed, sown into the ground, becoming a great plant putting forth branches to shelter all. A beautiful image, yet we need to understand it more completely. If you imagine this plant to be like a tall tree with expansive branches, maybe like a great cedar or a redwood - that is not what Christ intends. He speaks of the mustard tree that stays lower to the ground, with a dense interweaving of its branches - beautiful in its own right, but not according to our preconceptions.
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A few nights ago I woke up about an hour before I had planned to, pretty well rested but with a few unsettling things on my mind and heart. However as I lay there, a little song soon simply popped into my mind. 'This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine. This little light of mine…'
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Blessed Basil Moreau, as the Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, is the spiritual father of all Holy Cross priests, brothers and sisters, like those of us serving in Family Rosary. He is the spiritual father of Venerable Patrick Peyton. Their lives bear some striking resemblance.
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It was a shocking moment for onlookers: a man full of leprosy comes close to Jesus and throws himself down. Jesus touches him and he is immediately cured. Leprosy was not only horrifying to people at that time, the Levitical Law even mandated that those with leprosy be declared unclean and live in isolation!
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