Family Reflection Video: Food, Glorious Food

By: Father Willy Raymond, C.S.C. on August 7th, 2017

Family Reflection Video: Food, Glorious Food

The Lord provides us with food in more ways than we think.

The children wishing for meat over the manna in the desert sound as though they dream of the same thing as the children in the musical Oliver: food! Scripture reminds us that we cannot live on bread alone, but on the words that come from the mouth of God.

Father Peyton’s famous saying, “the family that prays together stays together,” is a quote we love at Holy Cross Family Ministries. Recent research showed that young Catholic families eat dinner together often enough that we might say, “the family that eats together stays together” too!

How does eating together bring us closer to one another? How does sharing food from God bring us closer together?

Today I pray you are filled with the glorious food God provides for us.

For additional reading:

The Discontent of the People, Numbers 11:4B-15

“Food, Glorious Food” from Oliver!

About Father Willy Raymond, C.S.C.

Father Wilfred J. Raymond, C.S.C. (Father Willy), a native of Old Town, Maine, is the eighth of 12 children. He joined the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1964 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1971. He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Stonehill College in 1967 and a master’s in Theology from the University of Notre Dame in 1971. He served in ministry at Stonehill College (1979-1992), Holy Cross leadership (1994-2000), National Director of Family Theater Productions, Hollywood (2000-2014), and President of Holy Cross Family Ministries (2014-2022). In addition to English, he is conversant in French and Spanish. He remains a diehard fan of the Boston Red Sox, even though he has served as Chaplain for the Los Angeles Dodgers.