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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Return to the Church | Seasonal Reflections
I like to think that today’s feast of Mary, Mother of the Church, and Pentecost are a perfect marriage of Spirit and youth. Today, the Church is young! We just celebrated Pentecost yesterday, and today’s feast was only placed in the calendar by Pope Francis in 2018.
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Holy lives of inspiration | Seasonal Reflections
As I write this, I am very happy to be travelling to a mission in Michigan: my first foray, my first time on an airplane since COVID began. I must admit at the same time, I awoke this morning feeling something strange, so much so that it has called me to pray and ponder all day as I have travelled. What do I feel? What do we feel as a people? Do we know how we feel now? Are most of us feeling knocked around, at least a bit? Disorientated? Maybe vaguely stunned, and perhaps, even unconsciously, wondering, “who am I”?
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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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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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