One of the most moving moments in PRAY, the beautiful film we have recently released on the life and Mission of Venerable Patrick Peyton, is when Peter and Patty MacEntee tell their Rosary story. They recall that a few years into their marriage, already with a couple of kids, their life got listless and their marriage hard. Peter admits that he didn’t want to let go of the supposed freedom of sports all the time and drinking with his buddies… Patty was feeling left alone… But then Peter says that from watching EWTN he heard of Father Peyton and the importance of praying the Rosary at home… So they decided to try. Peter talks of their first Rosary together… You can see the memory brings tears to his eyes … He said it was really awkward… yet a really intimate moment… They opened themselves to each other – AND, TOGETHER, TO GOD Beautiful. Powerful in a gentle way… They say then that their decision to pray the family Rosary every day saved their marriage and has been one of the most important decisions in their married life.
They opened the door to Christ! To his peace and reconciliation. CHRIST IS OUR PEACE! Peter and Patty let HIM into their family and made HIM the Center THROUGH FAMILY PRAYER! Saint Paul says: “Establishing peace, that he might reconcile both with God, in one body, through the Cross.” He is talking of how Christ’s sacrificial death on the Cross fulfills and completes the Mosaic Law, the OLD COVENANT and THEN unites Jews and Gentiles ALL in the NEW COVENANT… All humanity is and can be reconciled to God and one another and united in His Body, the Church! This is a really important teaching: really important theologically - AND Our great promise of true and real peace. Our only hope NOW. The way of RECONCILIATION, joy and happiness for the family – the Domestic Church.
Peter and Patty now, some years later, have nine kids and the film shows shots of the family, their domestic Church. Certainly not perfect. Clearly, happy and united. In Christ “the structure grows together into a temple sacred to the Lord.” Daily family prayer opened the door. The family that prays together stays together.
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