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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Lent activities | Sunday Gospel Activities | family prayer
Saints have been painted in bright colors because they were great leaders: kings, queens, emperors, knights in shining armor, even generals of armies like Joan of Arc, or brightly robed bishops, popes, and abbots. When you look at the choirs of saints in heaven, you are dazzled by all the color, all the talent, and all the most incredible human and holy accomplishments. When it comes to Saint Joseph — what dazzling colors do we find for him? No red of martyrs, no gold of world leaders, no pulpit of great preachers, no scroll of great authors. No, just a small workshop, a little hut with a battered shingle over the door that says: "Joseph and Son, Carpenters."
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Catholic | Daily Family Prayer | Lent activities
As we move through the mid-point of Lent towards the finish line of Easter, we’ve gathered a plethora of inspiring ideas from the CatholicMom.com treasury on how to persevere in our Lenten disciples and devotions!
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Love thy Neighbor | Seasonal Reflections
The Gospels are replete with several examples of where the Scribes and the Pharisees disagreed with Jesus over some theological or pastoral matter. Surprisingly in today’s Gospel, both Jesus and the scribes seem to agree on something.
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“If today, you hear His voice harden not your hearts.” Psalm 95 speaks to the human condition of how we react to God’s “voice.” In the times that are cited in the Psalm, the people had heard the voice of God through Moses, and they, like we at times, had complained and thought they knew better than God.
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Going deeper in the faith is something we all hope for this Lenten season. At times, it involves praying over the Word of God and asking some questions. As I reflected on the first reading from the Book of Deuteronomy, I was drawn to Moses’ words of warning to “be earnestly on guard not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your memory as long as you live.”
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The author, G.K. Chesterton, when asked why he became a Catholic, replied, “To have my sins forgiven.” This quote and today’s readings made me wonder, how many times have God, my family, friends, and others forgiven me since, say, 1970 … allegedly, that’s when I reached the age of reason, though I’m pretty sure I knew right from wrong a year earlier!
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