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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Learn more about our faith | Seasonal Reflections
Despite the saccharine depictions of the Nativity found on so many greeting cards and coffee mugs, there is nothing sentimental about the accounts of Jesus’ birth put forward in the Gospels. There is, however, much that God wishes to communicate to us about Himself through the words of the inspired authors.
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One of the insidious effects of the breakdown of marriage and family life is the erosion of our ability to trust. The development of this muscle of the heart, which God intended to be exercised within the sanctuary of the family, is stunted when the word "vow" no longer connotes permanence, and we are bombarded with private and public examples of infidelity.
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Church History | Month of the Rosary
On this Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, we are pleased to offer an account of the history of the Rosary by Father Willy Raymond, C.S.C. May it inspire you and your family to gather in prayer with Mary, the Mother of God, and to encourage each other to have recourse to her for all of your needs.
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The threshold between life and death is a place of radical poverty. For popes and for princes, for celebrated millionaires and for unknown derelicts, death demands the same absolute dispossession that delivers the soul into the hands of God. Embracing such poverty is fearful and repugnant to many. For those who have exercised their hearts in the desire for heavenly things, however, it can be a moment of liberation and, even, of joy.
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Modernity largely ignores the mother who wishes to answer the summons to heroic charity that her vocation makes upon her. Instead of offering her saintly examples, our culture presents her with a host of feminine role models whose many achievements are not necessarily bad in themselves, but which are only truly good if they orient women, their husbands, and their children to Heaven.
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Healing the family | Why pray?
Immediately preceding the first of May, the Church celebrates the feast of a 16th-century pope whose memorial is particularly well-situated in such close proximity to a month dedicated to Mary.
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