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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Can you remember back when Sundays were different? A day when you went to Mass, picked up a dozen doughnuts on the way home, or maybe went out to breakfast before heading home with the Sunday paper. That was just in the morning! Afternoons and evenings almost always included visiting family and friends, family lunch and supper, going for a ride, and being outside, including learning how to ride your bike or drive a car in the empty parking lots of banks and malls.
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Holy lives of inspiration | Return to the Church
During just another day with the sheep in the desert, Moses' life was about to change suddenly.
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In this part of the world, we are plunging into the heat and humidity of summer. We carefully schedule our outdoor activity for cooler and shadier times of the day. A quiet breeze refreshes us, staying hydrated is essential, and visiting the shore restores us.
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Yesterday, while preparing for today’s homily, I read a wonderful reflection on today’s first reading. It was written by a retired woman by the name of Eileen Wirth. For years she was a journalist and then taught at Creighton University in Nebraska. Now she is retired but not without purpose in her life.
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Healing the family | Why pray?
I want to share a story that illuminates an essential aspect of our faith and the challenges we face in the world. It involves a preacher and a manufacturer of soaps who met on the streets. The manufacturer, with a sneer, questioned the effectiveness of the gospel preached by the preacher, pointing out the presence of many wicked people in the world. But the preacher responded with a thought-provoking analogy.
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Healing the family | Return to the Church
How do we make sense of Jesus’ statement that He “… has not come to bring peace but the sword?” The first clue is
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