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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Fruits of the Spirit | family prayer | pray the rosary
Paul asks in the Acts of the Apostles if the others know the Holy Spirit. When he lays hands on them, they are filled with its grace. This passage reminds us that we should live our lives aware of, open to, filled with, and guided by the Spirit of God.
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Holy lives of inspiration | Strengthening family unity
Having grown up in a city, Jesus’ instruction to “be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves” only made partial sense to me. I get the idea of shrewdness in order to watch your back or anyone else’s who is part of your flock. But the "simple as doves" has always seemed to be a contradiction to the vigilance part of the instruction.
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Holy lives of inspiration | Why pray?
British author Douglas Hyde once wrote for the Communist Daily. To smear the Catholic Church, he bought Avro Manhattan's The Catholic Church Against the Nineteenth Century. He read it, but something strange happened. He writes: "Instead of giving ammunition against the Church, I learned something about the Church's social teaching. Avro Manhattan wrote the book to make people anti-Catholics. It helped make me 'pro' Catholic instead."
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Yesterday’s gospel ended with Jesus telling his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” God always has a plan. Jesus was telling His closest disciples of great potential and yet a lack of those to do the work of God. So, He tells them to ask God for laborers to accomplish the work, the mission.
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Although I'm not a big boxing or wrestling fan, Mary Kom makes the sport interesting for Indians. Defeating world-renowned North Korean Jang Song Ae in boxing, Mary returned home as a hero.
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According to Dr. James Dobson's book, Coming Home, Timeless Wisdom for Families, published in 1998, King Frederick II studied fifty infants in the 13th century to determine which language they would speak if they were never exposed to spoken words. Consequently, he assigned foster mothers to bathe and breastfeed the children but prohibited them from talking to them or cuddling with them.
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