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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Catholic Faith | Eucharistic procession | Father Patrick Peyton | Jesus
In honor of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s stop at The Father Peyton Center in North Easton, Massachusetts, today, we are sharing CatholicMom contributor Kate Taliaferro’s family experience with the first National Eucharistic Pilgrimage and the lessons they learned about following Jesus. On Monday, June 29, 2026, the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage — the “St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Route” — will make its way to the Diocese of Fall River. Holy Cross Family Ministries is honored to be the first stop on this pilgrimage before participants continue in procession with Jesus on Monday evening in New Bedford and Tuesday morning in Fall River.
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Catholic Faith | Easter season | Family Activities | easter
Laura Vazquez Santos explores how the Church’s fifty-day Easter season invites mothers to move from celebration to formation. Every year, I enter the Triduum with holy ambition. I imagine dim lights, whispered prayers, and children gazing reverently at a crucifix. What I usually get is my 6-year-old asking for crackers every 5 minutes during the Gospel at Mass or my preschooler sword-fighting with last year’s blessed palm. I admit that getting through the Easter season can be both logistically challenging and spiritually testing. In years past, and especially after my reversion to the Faith, I placed an unrealistic pressure on myself as a mother to get everything right each Easter, especially as I feared my children would be more enticed by the celebration of the Easter Bunny than by the amazing reality that is the Resurrection.
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Catholic Faith | Lent activities | Spiritual Life
What are the things that hold you back from having a fruitful Lent? Catholic Mom contributor Andrea Bear provides practical tips for finishing the season strong. We are well into Lent, and the chocolate bar looks tempting; you just gulped down a roast beef sandwich, then noticed the calendar says Friday. Or on the opposite end, you’re still trying to determine what to give up — and there’s only a couple of weeks left. Does this sound familiar? What happens when we can’t commit to our Lenten promises, or we just feel unenthusiastic about Lent? Unlike the Christmas and Easter seasons of celebration, Lent often has the stigma of being a gloomy period in our Church calendar. If we don’t prepare for Lent, it can seem like a depressing time, rather than a time of renewal.
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Catholic Faith | pray the rosary | prayer life
Building habits to support steady spiritual growth became easier for Kathie Scott-Avery when she began using these four strategies. Although rooted in good intentions, we can overwhelm ourselves when deciding to revamp our spiritual life. Major resolutions, no matter how enthusiastically embraced at the outset, frequently wane or backfire, often leading us to conclude that we lack ability, conviction, willpower, good timing, or even faith. Thinking small can help, particularly when we are fashioning a path to a new spiritual habit or trying to improve upon one already established. Of course, the process still requires a commitment to specific and concrete actions related to what we want to accomplish. Is it just for ourselves, or for the whole family? Are we trying to fill a spiritual gap in knowledge? Refresh a practice that’s gone a little stale? Combat a particular sin? Improve on a virtue?
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Catholic Faith | Learn more about our faith
Pope Francis during his general audience on 25th January 2023, said, “if anyone asks me the best way to meet Jesus, I would say be needy. Be needy for grace, needy for forgiveness, needy for joy, needy for whatever you need...you can fill that with what you are needy for. This is the only way Jeus will draw near to us.”
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Catholic | Catholic Central | Catholic Church | Catholic Faith
Pope Francis had a huge impact on the world during his papacy, but the effect continues after his death. One result may be swelling the ranks of the Church he led. On April 21, 2025, one day after Easter Sunday, Pope Francis passed away, ending an era of Catholic history that began on March 13, 2013. The papacy of Argentinean-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio was perhaps one of the most (if not the most) Googled pontificates ever. So, it's fitting that, in the wake of the pope's passing, many people turned to the Internet with one burning question. So, What Did People Search the Internet for When Pope Francis Died?
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