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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
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I just returned from a short (but wonderful!) trip to Georgia. I had received an email from a high school religion teacher, who had shown our documentary film, PRAY, about the life and mission of Father Peyton. Her tenth grade students were so moved by the film, that they decided to organize a Rosary Rally...
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May we learn to be the king’s good servant, but God’s first. Saints John Fisher and Thomas More, two learned and devout Catholics, were put to death by King Henry the VIII because each of them refused to support Henry’s intention to divorce his wife and marry another woman - in opposition to Catholic teaching and papal authority. What became of these two men?
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When I was a kid, we used to love watching the "The Three Stooges." It's a special genre, the old vaudevillian, exaggerated physical comedy; "The Three Stooges" featuring Moe, Larry, and Curley. The question from today’s gospel, "Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye", always makes me smile and think about that classic show - but also the reality of how I'm doing when it comes to "measuring" my own faults.
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What if Adam and Eve didn’t sin? What would have come of it all? Don’t get me wrong: Eden must have been a nice place, but was it to be the end of the story? In any case, it was to be just the beginning of the human story. We have no way of knowing God’s Plan A, at this point, now after Adam and Eve provoked Plan B, i.e., the “after the fall” scenario.
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In today’s reading from Corinthians, Saint Paul mentions ‘encouragement’ 10 times. Yesterday, I found myself to be quite encouraged by an eye-witness account of a Patrick Peyton Rosary Rally in the Philippines. This account was from decades ago, and is still very powerful today. Let me share a part of that witness with you…
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At Mass this week we have been hearing from the Book of Tobit. For those who haven’t been able to follow, today we are coming to the conclusion: after a very successful trip to Media, guided by the Archangel Raphael disguised as a human, Tobit’s son Tobias returns home to Nineveh and heals his father’s blindness through a remedy Raphael has given him.
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