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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
I fall in and out of praying the Rosary, and I am not sure why. Maybe laziness, probably distraction, or most likely, when things are going well … the beads fall to the side. I get into these different routines, depending on the present joy or struggle, of what prayers I reach for, which spiritual reading grabs me, a certain scripture I feel called to soak in. This morning, I reached for the beads.
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In a recent homily, our parish priest reflected on the blame aspect of this passage, and how the devil uses blame to separate families. I had never thought about it, but it makes sense: Blame is a natural consequence that flows from original sin.
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What are you waiting for right now? I don’t mean waiting your turn at the doctor’s office or the checkout line, or waiting to move forward in a traffic jam. I mean waiting for the next life-changing reprieve or jolt that you are powerless against.
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My dad always taught us that if we borrowed something, no matter what it was, we should return it in better condition than it was when we borrowed it.
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I don’t know about you, but lately I have grown ever more weary of the “me first” ways of the world.
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I was in an existential funk: questioning my purpose, God’s plan for me, and the universality of suffering. Someone suggested as a solution that I should be more shallow. While I understood the spirit of love in which the suggestion was made, it was a funny thing to hear.
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