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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton

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Preparing for a New Springtime of the Heart

Debra Black suggests ways to make Lent the foundation for new growth toward Easter.

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Lenten Hope

Anne DeSantis looks back at this pandemic year and finds, as her Lenten focus, lessons in hope.

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Love thy Neighbor  |  Why pray?

One of Those Days: Family Reflection Video

Have you ever had one of those days? You know the kind where hypothetically, it’s Wednesday, but you’re convinced it’s Thursday? On those days, it's easy to become both lost and frustrated.

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Return to the Church

What Do You Think About This? Family Reflection Video

Five of us priests were together enjoying a meal celebrating a birthday. The conversation was light until one asked, “What you think about the challenges we face from fellow Catholics who question the Church and whose faith is diminished?” He added that increasingly he has been encountering some tough questions and comments from prominent Catholics about the Church, its teachings, and leaders.

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Celebrating family life  |  Seasonal Reflections

Standing in Prayer

I have a hazy school memory from sixty years ago. The teacher used a strategy that involved students standing around the room shoulder to shoulder. The teacher posed a question to each student, in turn, about something we had studied. If they answered correctly, they stayed in their place. An incorrect answer resulted in a trek to the end of the line to wait for another turn.

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Seasonal Reflections

Loving from the Foot of the Cross: Family Reflection Video

During Lent, Catholics all over the world come together to pray the Stations of the Cross, and usually we sing a hymn called the Stabat Mater. It’s really a beautiful prayer that we ought to pay more attention to. It’s a poem, really, that was probably written about 800 years ago by a Franciscan, Jacopone da Todi.

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