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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Seasonal Reflections | Why pray?
I have come across many people who give up on God when they go through a crisis in their life. They feel abandoned by Him.
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Holy lives of inspiration | Seasonal Reflections
In the United States of 2020, we have just experienced a year unlike no other. We have dealt with a global pandemic, a contentious election, a growing fear of hunger and debt, and civil unrest in our cities. Who is to blame? Political leaders? Political parties? Billionaires? Systematic Injustices?
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Today, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. That is to say, today we celebrate the fact that God fell head-over-heels in love with a human being, and that human being had what it takes to love Him back.
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Today’s saint never saw it coming … Ambrose was a politician, a catechumen, not yet baptized when he went to an assembly meeting and heard someone cry out: “Ambrose for bishop!” Then the whole assembly picked up the chant. He was shocked.
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Days shortening. Skies darkening. Leaves falling. Time slipping like sand through the hourglass. As we enter autumn and limited daylight, we ask: How are we to spend our days? What to do with our brief time on earth — whether we’re one or ninety-one? We pray. We plead. We petition for wisdom. How then shall we live?
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Have you ever felt that your job, your marriage, or your life has fallen into “the same, old same old”? Have you cried out sometime, “O God, can’t You change this?” “Why don’t You make COVID go away?”
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