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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
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In my last semester of the Master of Divinity program I am currently taking a course on Priesthood. My professor just the other week showed us an image of Our Lady depicted in the icon of the Virgin of Vladimir1.
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Déborah Xavier-Mis ponders how the loving presence of God in her daily life can easily go unnoticed.
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Hillary Ibarra explains how her irregular regular Rosary habit has done her good.
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Healing the family | Return to the Church
In the United States, we have a tradition of visiting our deceased relatives and friends each May 31st, on which we celebrate Memorial Day. As we stand at their graves, there are those we knew well who touched our lives and those we know only by name and family stories. For each of them, we stand and say a prayer of thanksgiving to God and pray that they are joyfully in Heaven.
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MAY is Mary's month, and I Muse at that and wonder why: These are the opening words of a favorite poem of mine that I like to return to during the Month of Mary, May Magnificat, by the great Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Asking why May is Mary’s month, he invites us to get caught up with her into praise of God and into the life of the Spirit!
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Holy lives of inspiration | Love thy Neighbor
As I read about Jesus in the gospel today, walking to Jerusalem with twelve of his disciples, I was reminded of the Band of Brothers: a brotherhood of soldiers on their walk to face the prospect of death and the ravages of war. As Jesus shared his fate with his own band of brothers, I began to ask myself what could be going on in the minds of the twelve? What was their reaction when Jesus told the disciples what was going to happen to Him, and to them?
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