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

Mary Pedersen

Mary Pedersen serves as "first preacher" to six and grand-preacher to ten! She holds a doctorate in preaching from the Aquinas Institute of Theology, with her thesis, "Parents as First Preachers: Naming Grace in the Domestic Church." She writes and speaks on topics of faith and family, and has been known on probably far too many occasions, to shout out a woo-hoo! Mary blogs at MaryPedersen.com.

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Nothing More Noble

By: Mary Pedersen June 19th, 2021

Mary Pedersen notes that Father's Day is a time to recall how noble it is for a father to live a simple life of loving and protecting his family.

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Re-Turn to Him

By: Mary Pedersen February 24th, 2021

Mary Pedersen discusses the challenge of Lent in a difficult time: a call to return to God and a new way of being.

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Numbering Our Days

By: Mary Pedersen December 5th, 2020

Days shortening. Skies darkening. Leaves falling. Time slipping like sand through the hourglass. As we enter autumn and limited daylight, we ask: How are we to spend our days? What to do with our brief time on earth — whether we’re one or ninety-one? We pray. We plead. We petition for wisdom. How then shall we live?

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