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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
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We kayaked 10 miles into the outback: across Yellowstone’s Lewis Lake, up the Lewis River and halfway across Shoshone Lake to the campsite. Stepping out, stepping back: there I found the different perspective I was hoping for as we celebrated the Eucharist on the shore, looking way off across the lake. This gaze opened into infinity, finding and awakening vision: the faculty to be able to see and to understand.
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When you first look at today’s readings, they don’t seem to have much common ground. The first reading from Exodus is a series of God’s “great deeds,” meant to elicit gratitude from the Israelites, a gratitude that flows from God’s fidelity.
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Around here, we are progressing through the warmth of summertime. A few of our summer days have been hectic, but many more have been serene enjoyment. The hours of daylight are diminishing ever so slightly. We have begun harvesting the early tomatoes. Students are beginning to think about a new school year.
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Jesus, how many times do I have to forgive someone if they have sinned against me? Peter was asking a question that many of us may have asked at one time or another in our lives. Consider yourselves blessed if you have never been hurt by what someone said or did to you. Peter was conflicted...
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Father Adam Booth, C.S.C., Faculty Fellow in Theology at Stonehill College: "God grants Moses a great gift, but a partial one only. God takes Moses up a mountain and shows him the entirety of the Promised Land. And that’s an amazing gift: the intimacy with God it involved; the beauty of the view, I’m sure; and the fact that it represented a pledge that God makes good on promises. God’s People would have their own land, just as was promised them. But it was partial..."
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