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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
“If you cannot preach like Peter, if you cannot pray like Paul, you can tell the Love of Jesus and say he died for all.” That is the second stanza of one of my favorite hymns, There is a Balm in Gilead.
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I recently read Josef Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture. It had been on my list for a while, and it’s one of those rich classics that immediately gets you asking yourself, why did it take me so long to read this?! I regularly find myself considering the implications of his central theme: we are made to be contemplative beings, people poised in a posture of wonder as we continually ponder God and ultimate reality — the most real, most essential things. In short, he describes “leisure” as the space that we cultivate — physical, mental, spiritual — to live in a way that allows such ongoing contemplation and wonder.
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I call upon you; answer me, O God. Turn your ear to me; hear my speech. (Psalm 17:6)
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Like the man in my story, thousands of people today are struggling with separation and isolation.
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This Sunday we celebrated Father’s Day and I find myself continuing to think of and give thanks for my father. John Laurence Phalan. My Grandfather John wanted to call my father John as he was the first and only boy child. My Grandmother Helen wanted to call him Laurence. I don’t know why … They settled on John Laurence but then everybody called him Larry. My grandmother won that one!
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On the hillsides in Lebanon, Quebec, and France, bonfires light up the night on the feast of Saint John the Baptist. Let's reflect on the great precursor’s gift to us, and our response as missionary disciples.
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