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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Why pray for the dead? Can we really help them with our prayers? Is there any warrant for this in the Word of God? Isn’t the final decision about eternal life made at the judgment each person will undergo at the time of death?
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Love thy Neighbor | Return to the Church
Saint John Lateran is the mother Church of Christianity, the physical sign of the incarnate Word of God in the world and reminder that we are living temples, not yet perfect, but temples nevertheless, to the glory of God.
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Healing the family | Why pray?
“Now what will God say to those who are not good enough to enter heaven at once nor bad enough to go to Hell?” After a pause, a little girl put up her hand and said, “God will say, ‘I will be seeing you soon!’” (Fr. Elias Dias, SDB, Divine Stories for Families)
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Why is the Rosary the perfect family prayer? Fr. Willy Raymond, C.S.C., details 20 reasons to pray the Rosary.
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Friends, today we celebrate the feast of Saints Simon and Jude. Like them, all of us by our baptism are called by Jesus Christ to be missionary disciples of the good news. Let me share two true stories with you.
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On October 16th 2002 the late John Paul II signed his inspiring Apostolic letter The Rosary of the Virgin Mary. In it he described the Rosary as the school of Mary where we are led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ in union with Mary and to experience the depths of his love.
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