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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Family Rosary | everyday miracles | family prayer
In this week of Marian devotion, Debra Black shares her testimony to the Rosary’s power in a homeless woman’s life. In September, 2025, Holy Cross Family Ministries held the 75th Anniversary Venerable Patrick Peyton Rosary Rally. This begins a week of Marian devotions in our Church tradition. Monday was the birth of our Blessed Virgin Mary; Friday we honor the Holy Name of Mary; and on September 15 we venerate Our Lady of Sorrows. Reflecting upon this brought to mind a time when the Holy Spirit used my rosary to bring about a miracle in someone’s life. When my daughter was 12, we were in a park with Our Lady of the Streets Homeless Ministry providing conversation, compassion, and care packages to the sleeping homeless men and women. The homeless loved to carry prayer cards in their pocket and wear rosaries around their neck. One woman named Josephine was eagerly taking our rosaries and bringing them to the others. But she was so disappointed that every rosary we had did not fit around her head. We had no rosary for her.
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Catholic Dad | catholic family life | family prayer
The hectic schedule of his older kids leads CatholicMom.com contributor Jake Frost to consider the power of choice and how to teach them to decide between competing good things. One of the hardest things in life is choosing among many competing good things. As my kids are getting older and starting into high school, lots of new opportunities are opening up for them. There are sports and speech competitions and Science Olympiads and Future Farmers of America and all sorts of things. Good things. And winning in these competitions and moving on to state, or even nationals, means trips with the team across the state and even across the country, staying in hotels, meeting new people, having new experiences. All great stuff.
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Celebrating Marian feasts | Our Lady of Sorrows | Seven Sorrows | family prayer
Catholic Mom contributor, Sherry Hayes-Peirce, shares a modern look at the Seven Sorrows of Mary, a devotion the Church promotes each September.
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Life Lessons | catholic family life | family prayer | sacrament of matrimony
Catholic Mom contributor Kathryn Swegart explores a surprising truth about fidelity in marriage.
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catholic family life | family prayer | sacrament of marriage
Hillary Ibarra shares how prayer helped to keep her marriage and family together.
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Catholic Motherhood | family prayer | pray the rosary
Carmen Lappe considers how certain Mysteries of the Rosary are more applicable to certain seasons of life, and creates her own meditations on these Mysteries. The Rosary has been part of my daily prayer routine for quite some time now. I still struggle to quiet my mind and fully enter into the Mysteries, and yet I would be lost without these rhythmic prayers to start my day. Recently, I’ve noticed certain Mysteries pulling me in, inviting me into a deeper focus and reflection. For example, whenever I get to the fourth Joyful Mystery of the Presentation in the Temple, my heart aches. I wonder how Mary must have felt as she received Simeon’s prophecy that her Son would be the rise and fall of many. Then I wonder how I would have felt if, during our son’s Baptism, someone told me Damien would be diagnosed with a brain tumor and vision challenges in just a few short years.
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