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

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Believing Even When We Need to Wait: Family Reflection Video

“On February 11, 1858, a beautiful woman appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in a remote stone grotto outside of Lourdes, France. When asked her name, she replied, ‘I am the Immaculate Conception.’"

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Celebrating family life

Prayer: Penitential Light

A few days ago, I was blessed to view a spectacular dawn. The early blue-gray darkness of morning gave way to sunlight’s awakening canvas of red, orange, yellow, rose cloud reflections. Trees and homes appeared in the soft, tinted glow of pastel light. For a few moments, everything offered a luminescent insight. Quite beautiful!

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Our Lady of Lourdes: 1858 and 2021

February 2021: COVID February. Nevertheless, we approach the anniversary of one of the most extraordinary Divine interventions since the Resurrection. This one, however, happened in dumping grounds on the outskirts of a small town, Lourdes, in the French Pyrenees.

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Holy lives of inspiration

Saint Scholastica - A Pure Heart for Love: Family Reflection Video

There is a beautiful story Pope Saint Gregory the Great recorded for us about a visit of St. Scholastica to her twin brother, St. Benedict, at his Monastery of Monte Casino. Like him, she was the abbess of a monastery so she could only go occasionally to see him.

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February Joy: Lenten Planning

How do you plan for Lent? Tiffany Walsh shares her anticipation and preparation for the liturgical season ahead.

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Beware of Unexplored Traditions: Family Reflection Video

A woman always cut off the ends of a ham before putting it into the pan and setting it in the oven. She did this every holiday. When a friend asked her the reason, she looked perplexed and said, “I don’t know. My mother always did it." So the woman went to ask her mother why she trimmed the ham, and the mother replied, "Because that's what my mother, your Grandmother, did."

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