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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Lorelei Savaryn confides how the Sacrament of Reconciliation helped her learn to offer forgiveness.
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Kimberly Lynch reflects on the big decision to step back from her full-time teaching job to stay home with her small army of toddlers.
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Brief and contemporary inspiration focused on hope and family prayer will be delivered to your inbox! Articles include live video, written word, and links to resources that will lead you and your family deeper into faith.
Love thy Neighbor | Strengthening family unity
In the film Fiddler of the Roof, there is a heart-warming scene in the kitchen, where Teyva (Teev), the Jewish father of three daughters, teases his wife Golde who has been married to him by parental arrangement for over 25 years. "Do you love me?" he asks with a sheepish grin.
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Modernity largely ignores the mother who wishes to answer the summons to heroic charity that her vocation makes upon her. Instead of offering her saintly examples, our culture presents her with a host of feminine role models whose many achievements are not necessarily bad in themselves, but which are only truly good if they orient women, their husbands, and their children to Heaven.
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Holy lives of inspiration | Return to the Church
What’s in a name? I recall the question but did not know its origin until I discovered the line in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette. In the tragic love story, Juliette was concerned about Romeo’s last name - it was a curse in the mind of her parents. The question was asked, what’s in a name?
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We tend to pay attention to “first-time” experiences, our first love, a first baby, first day of school, a first job, and so on. “Firsts” invite us to look around and see what is happening. A “first time” has within it a finality; there can be only one “first,” yet it is often the “first of many,” the initiation into a continuing, unfolding, repeating experience.
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