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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Today is the feast of Blessed Basil Moreau, the founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross. The celebration of a founder of a religious community takes on particular importance because a founder is the person whose life cast forward a vision for the whole future of that community. In a sense, the founder establishes the heart of the entire community–its life and movements and sensitivities all flow out of the founder. It is the same with the Catholic Church. With Jesus Christ as our founder, it is His love–which gives its own life for the life of the world, embodied in the Sacred Heart wounded on the Cross–which makes the Church what it is and makes Christians who we are.
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Today’s first reading is a classic. It features the inexperienced and diminutive David against the seasoned and imposing Philistine, in a battle to the death. It doesn’t seem like a fair fight; that either man would ever be forced to face the other. And yet, David is victorious against all odds.
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Robert Frost began his poem "Mending Wall" with "Something there is that doesn’t love a wall" and ends it with "Good fences make good neighbors." In today’s gospel, Jesus rebukes the Pharisees who criticize His disciples for plucking and eating some heads of grain while walking through a field.
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AnneMarie Miller discusses practical, simple ways to attend daily Mass with young children in tow.
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MaryBeth Eberhard contemplates Mary as a role model for mothers as they seek to guide their growing children.
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This healing of a paralytic is a beloved and striking miracle. We can imagine the house where Jesus was staying in Capernaum packed with people; and then all the commotion when they were lowering the guy through the roof, and even more when he got up, picked up his mat, and walked out!
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