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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Carolyn Astfalk offers simple suggestions, including a sweet treat, to foster your family’s devotion to Saint Joseph this year.
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Charles Shultz, creator of the Peanuts cartoons, once had Lucy observing, “life is like a deck chair.” “Like a what?” asks Charlie. She replies, “Haven’t you ever been on a cruise ship, Charlie? Passengers open the deck chairs so they can sit in the sun. Some, facing the rear of the ship so they can see where they’ve been, and others forward to see where they’re going. On the cruise ship of life, Charlie, which way is your deck chair facing?” Charlie thinks for a moment and replies: “Gee, I’ve never been able to get one unfolded.”
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Seasonal Reflections | Why pray?
We may have started Lent with hopes of doing something beautiful for God, but it has been God who has been sharing something beautiful with us.
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In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, there is a small memorial – you might miss it completely if you did not have a guide –about four feet by four feet square with a small flame in the middle and a baldachin surrounding it. This is the “Armenian Chapel,” also known as the “Station of the Holy Women.”
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Debra Black suggests ways to make Lent the foundation for new growth toward Easter.
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Anne DeSantis looks back at this pandemic year and finds, as her Lenten focus, lessons in hope.
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