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

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You Will Bloom More Than Once

Autumn and Natalie Merchant are similar. I get all sentimental, sad and discontent when Natalie Merchant enticingly sings…

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Oxymoron of an Anchoress on a Silent Retreat

It was a sweet and gratuitous offer from Father, one that I didn’t want to accept. He kept calling it a contemplative retreat — whatever, it was a silent retreat, and I live an eremitic life.

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To Guard Their Soul

As parents, we instinctively prepare our children for every kind of weather, coach them on the right attitude on the field and off, all in order to keep them physically and emotionally safe.

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Is Celebrating Lent Really All it's Cracked Up to Be?

I am proud to be Catholic and a member of a thriving parish (Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Beaverton, Oregon.) So why do I bring this up?

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Why We Must Become Like Little Children

Christ offers an easy way to sanctity, to loving God and each other. A spirituality a child understands. A spirituality St.Thérèse of Lisieux understood. Relax. Give up striving. Surrender to His love and the love of His mother, Mary, and let it saturate every cell of your body. Then simply let His love flow through you.

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The Gift of Thoughtfulness

A friend of mine recently watched our pets while we were out of town for Christmas. When I came home, I was gifted a few essential items that would prevent me from having to take a trip to the grocery store after 16 hours in the car with people I love dearly, yet had not been further than 10 feet away from for an entire week.

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