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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
You have heard enough news about the coronavirus. We are going to take a different approach to where we are all at right now: a return to beauty. When people hear the term “beauty,” they often associate it with beauty products and preparing for a date. This is not the type of beauty that I am referring to. To look for beauty, we have to look upward.
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April, the month of the Eucharist, was allowed by God to be a month of fasting from His Precious Body and Blood. And now in May, the month of Mary, we seem to be close to the end of our Eucharistic fast. It is appropriate that in the month Our Mother is celebrated, she brings us to her Son. Her ever-standing mission, bringing us to God.
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At the beginning of 2020, I accepted a New Year’s challenge to pick a saint to get to know throughout this year and pray devotedly to them. This was the first time I had heard of this challenge and felt it was a new and wonderful way to expand my prayer life.
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In Mulieris Dignitatem, St. John Paul II writes: “Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman’s ‘part.’ In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman ‘discovers herself through a sincere gift of self.’”
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Pope Francis and the Vatican have offered two prayer resources to Catholics to encourage the faithful to persevere during this time of quarantine.
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As a mom, I frequently feel like I have failed. Another day rolls around, only to make the same mistakes again. Sometimes I wish I could focus on one problem at a time, get better, then move on to something greater. But instead of the space to succeed, we mothers oftentimes ARE bombarded.
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