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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
A WordPress Daily Prompt asked writers if we could only take five objects from a burning house, what would be the most difficult things for us to leave behind?
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I think what I love most about summer is how close I am to the threshold of heaven. It isn’t the extra prayer time, or the time spent outside in the glory of God’s creation, or even the extra sacrifices demanded by a household that has stepped away from the routine of the school year. It’s the souls that run around on tiny bare feet.
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When I was pregnant with my first child, my affluent cousin advised me to hire someone who could come talk care of the baby one-half day each week so that I could get out of the house. Out of surprise and skepticism, I laughed in her face. We have never had money enough that I could pay for regular help. Fast-forward five years.
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“You have your own basketball team,” many people said when our fifth daughter was born this spring. Instead, what came to my spiritual director’s mind was: one for each decade of the Rosary, and I loved that concept as soon as the words came out of his mouth.
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Despite the fact that I’ve been retired for six years, traces of the school schedule that defined my routine for much of my life still remain.
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