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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Last week, when I was in India visiting my mother, I also visited a former classmate living in my neighborhood. He and his wife had recently lost their 24-year-old daughter Shami shortly after she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. This loss was devastating not only for her parents but also for the entire village.
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I would like to offer you a poem that I like very much. It’s called The Burning Babe, by Saint Robert Southwell, S.J. As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow, Surpris’d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow; And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near, [...]
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Our youngest child, now an adult with a family of his own, will turn forty-two years old this week. I don’t know if it’s a bigger passage for him or us. I remember he was born on Easter Monday. We anticipated an Easter baby, but the timing of birth, as we know, is according to nature’s time. “Timing is everything,” as the expression goes. I suspect there are things about birth and life that both our children have learned as parents that we could never have adequately explained when they were growing up.
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One sunny day in September 1972, a plainly dressed man stood on a street corner in downtown Chicago. As pedestrians hurried by, he would solemnly lift his right arm, point to a passing stranger nearby, and loudly repeat one single word: GUILTY! Then he stood quietly for a minute. Then again, he raised his arm, pointed to another stranger, and again pronounced the one word: GUILTY!
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Laurie J. Schmitt considers how Mary can be an example and accompaniment to women in the sandwich generation.
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There’s a man my mom and I see from time to time walking our dog at Stonehill. And, whenever we ask him how’s he’s doing he’ll always say, "living the dream!" Well, that’s not quite the response of the Israelites from today’s reading. However, in a way, you can sympathize with the Israelites, it’s been a long and difficult journey, without any end in sight.
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