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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Catholic Family Fun | Lent activities | family prayer | preparation for Lent
“Family-friendly Mardi Gras” may seem like a contradiction in terms, especially to people who live outside New Orleans and Louisiana. For many years, the media has focused on the event’s most lascivious aspects, particularly raucous French Quarter parties packed with people from all over the world. Nevertheless, many fun-loving Catholic families have learned how to keep this time-honored tradition safely and sanely alive.
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Ash Wednesday | family life | plan for Lent
There is always much discourse that surrounds the pillars of Lenten practice: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Especially in regards to fasting, sometimes wrong information is given or right information is given in disparaging ways. This makes it hard to know what to do and when to do it, let alone to know what’s fitting for a person’s situation in life. Let’s take a look at what the Church asks of us during Lent, complete with where to find this information yourselves.
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Healing the family | Love thy Neighbor
This afternoon we hear Jesus heal a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment. There are several other forms of deafness or speech impediments that each one of us needs to pay attention to and ask Jesus to heal us from.
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Holy lives of inspiration | Learn more about our faith
The other night, around nine p.m., I was taking out the trash and feeling like I’d run out of energy, and it was only Monday. That’s when I ran into an older woman who was coming in with groceries. I said hello and asked how her husband was doing. She explained that he’s in a skilled nursing facility, and there are some challenges. But then she said he had a great visit from a chaplain who came to visit, and they prayed “our prayer.” She then went on to pray a beautiful prayer, and her face lit up as she told me that she and her husband had said prayer together for decades every night, and they still do.
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Imagine a spring overflowing with crystal-clear water, its purity reflecting the light of the sun. This is the heart God desires for us—a heart cleansed from the darkness within, not just by outward rituals. Today's readings remind us that true defilement comes from our thoughts, words, and intentions, not from what we eat or wear.
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When you hear Jesus quote Isaiah, “This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me …” it can give us pause to consider whether or not our profession of faith at Mass and our prayers are rooted in our love for God or are merely familiar words said without thinking.
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