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Advent | Advent series | Catholic Faith | family life
The celebration of Advent begins today—a holy season of deep reflection and preparation for you and your family, and our worldwide Church. Discover the invaluable gift of prayer this Advent season! Delve deeper into the treasury of Catholic traditions of prayer with Family Rosary! Please visit FamilyRosary.org each week for new resources!
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Advent | Advent series | Catholic Family Fun
A wonderful program to include in your family's Advent journey this year, along with the many resources Family Rosary provides throughout the Advent and Christmas seasons. Ave Maria Press, an apostolate of the Congregation of Holy Cross in the United States, brings us this video series with Father Agustino Torres, CFR. Father Torres introduces us to the season of Advent—the Franciscan way—with the Prepare Your Heart Advent journal. Torres encourages us to enter into the story of Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem with Mary and Joseph as we prepare our hearts through prayer and meditation this Advent.
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It is not by accident that two major Marian feasts fall in the middle of Advent: the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, December 8, and the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12. They draw us more deeply into the warmth, the mystery, and the power of the season. As we approach December 12, let’s now turn our attention to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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One of the insidious effects of the breakdown of marriage and family life is the erosion of our ability to trust. The development of this muscle of the heart, which God intended to be exercised within the sanctuary of the family, is stunted when the word "vow" no longer connotes permanence, and we are bombarded with private and public examples of infidelity.
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"Peace on Earth" is what Jesus promises to bring us at Christmastime. If you have a family, though, the weeks leading up to December 25 can feel anything but peaceful. Besides the shopping, decorating, visiting, cooking, and other preparations we make during Advent, there is the world at large - which can feel at odds with a message of peace. News of violence, political division, conflict, and poverty fill our television screens and social media accounts. What kind of peace can Jesus bring to a world like ours?
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Advent series | Seasonal Reflections
Dear Friends in Faith, Advent 2020 begins Sunday, November 29. We invite you to journey to Bethlehem and the celebration of Christmas with our Family Rosary family.
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