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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Healing the family | Return to the Church
On Sunday and now, today’s gospel reveals Jesus’ authority over evil. In both cases, men’s souls have been captured by Satan. No human action can save them, either by their own efforts or anyone else. Only Jesus can set them free.
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Healing the family | Marriage | catholic family
Marriage is a covenant that is particularly vulnerable to the cunning ways of the evil one. He can sneak in when you least expect it, slowly eating away at the union that threatens his plans the most. My husband and I have been focusing on our marriage more lately. Our children are getting older and we realized the daily grind of life over the last 20 years has caused some of the habits of our early years as a couple to go by the wayside. However, it is these very habits that ward off the unseen force
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Healing the family | Holy lives of inspiration
Normally, when I read today’s gospel, I’m so drawn to the extraordinary act of love by the friends of the man who is paralyzed, that I miss the first line where it says, “One day as Jesus was teaching …”
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Healing the family | Return to the Church | Strengthening family unity
In today’s gospel, we hear for the third time that Jesus goes to dine in the home of one of the Pharisees. And, once again, the controversy of healing people on the sabbath comes up.
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Healing the family | Learn more about our faith
The woman had been suffering from her condition for eighteen long years. However, Jesus' opponents demanded that He wait for one more day, after the Sabbath, to cure her. But, considering she had already remained for eighteen years, couldn't Jesus wait for just one more day?
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Healing the family | Strengthening family unity
Today's readings invite us to reflect on the theme of rebuilding and revitalizing the Church. But let us begin by recognizing that each family is, in and of itself, a masterpiece of God and a Domestic Church. Within the walls of our homes, we have the power to renew and strengthen the foundation of the whole Church.
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