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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton

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Healing the family  |  Why pray?

God Knows Us Best - Weekday Homily Video

I recently read an article (Washington Examiner) about the Governor of Virginia issuing guidance that would have students drop off their cell phones at the beginning of the school day and pick them up after their final class concluded. The catalyst for this plan is the link between student’s cell phone use during and between classes and negative consequences such as inattention to instruction and anxiety and depression. Research shows that students receive more than two hundred notifications on their cell phones a day and two thirds report being distracted by them.

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Healing the family  |  Learn more about our faith

God's Unconditional Love - Weekday Homily Video

The Scriptures and Church tradition use many images to describe God, reflecting His infinite nature of love. Similarly, various images depict the people of God whom God has drawn to Himself throughout salvation history. Prophet Hosea paints another beautiful metaphor of God as a parent to a wayward child. Hosea speaks of God's love for Israel: "I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them in my arms and fostered them like one who raises an infant to his cheeks; I stooped to feed my child." In the year 2018, the school where I worked suffered the loss of a 6-year-old child.

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Healing the family  |  Holy lives of inspiration

The Courage of Forgiveness - Weekday Homily Video

In the year 1994 in the month of April, in the country of Rwanda, over a million people were killed in a mass genocide. Tensions between two ethnic groups or economic classes exploded into a mass massacre and mass destruction of property. The country was reduced to an ugly shell of its former self and the survivors of the genocide reduced to zombies, walking around without knowing who they were, where they were, what had happened to them, and why so few people were walking around.

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Sometimes We Forget, But God Doesn’t … Ever – Weekday Homily Video

Earlier this winter, I went into a Dunkin’ Donuts a ways from here. It was a really cold day, and so I had my ski jacket zipped all the way up, which blocked my Roman collar. And as I approached the counter, I heard a young woman’s voice say, “Don’t worry, I forge my signature on those forms all the time; it’s no big deal, really; I do it all the time!” Suddenly, the young woman turned and noticed she had a customer: me!

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Healing the family  |  Love thy Neighbor

The Standard of Mercy - Weekday Homily Video

What’s God’s standard of mercy? In other words, what are the ground rules when we sin against God and one another? If we’re interested in making it to Heaven, that’s a really important question; one that God answers in today’s reading from Ezekiel and the Gospel of Matthew.

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Healing the family  |  Love thy Neighbor

“Ephphatha!” (“Be Opened!”) - Weekday Homily Video

This afternoon we hear Jesus heal a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment. There are several other forms of deafness or speech impediments that each one of us needs to pay attention to and ask Jesus to heal us from.

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