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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Easter season | Holy Saturday | Holy Week | family entertainment
Gabby and Nick walk us through the Catholic perspective of what it means to be saved. Salvation and Redemption Have you heard someone ask you? Are you saved? Have you been saved? Do you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? How do we approach this question and the idea of salvation in general? Join Catholic Central hosts Gabby and Nick as they walk us through the Catholic perspective on what it means to be saved. Watch the Salvation and Redemption episode here:
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Good Friday | Holy Week | family prayer
Sarah Pedrozo offers a short meditation on a few words to pray on Good Friday. Behold, behold, the wood of the cross, on which is hung our salvation. O come, let us adore. These familiar words are often intoned each year at the Good Friday service. On this somber day that we yet call "good,” what further words can be said? Perhaps just a few. Looking at the cross of Christ, we can say, “Thank you.”
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Easter season | Family Activities | Holy Week | Triduum
Do you attend the Triduum liturgies with your family? We've gathered up some tips and encouragement from past years to help you and your children get the most out of these holy days. Triduum Memories "Let us stand." ... "Let us kneel." I have vivid memories of the first time I attended a Good Friday liturgy. It was held during the day, so Dad was probably working, and we kids attended with Mom and two of our great-aunts. To top it off, we were attending at our great-aunts' parish, not ours, so it was an unfamiliar church. Between the completely different ritual of the Good Friday liturgy as opposed to a regular Sunday Mass and the new surroundings and music, I remember being very confused. I certainly didn't understand the custom of venerating the cross.
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Daily Gospel Reflections | Holy Week | Spy Wednesday
Reflect on trusting God's timing and avoiding impulsive actions through the story of Judas' betrayal in this Daily Gospel Reflection for Wednesday of Holy Week. Today's Gospel: Matthew 26:14-25 Our actions are never hidden from God. We can try to justify our actions, we can pretend that we know better or that God somehow needs our help to bring His plans to fruition, but these are all lies we tell ourselves. God knows what is best, and He knows us better than we know ourselves. We can’t know what was going on in Judas’s heart when he sold the Lord for thirty silver pieces. Perhaps he was greedy, but it is commonly believed that he was doing what he thought was the right and just thing to do. Many were anticipating a political Messiah who would battle their oppressors, and perhaps Judas thought this exchange would be just the spark needed to ignite the battle. Regardless of his motives, we know that Jesus was aware of the betrayal by the time of the Last Supper, and that once it was complete, Judas regretted his actions. How often do we step in and take action impatiently because we think God needs our help? How often do we take matters into our own hands when we don’t like the direction God is leading us? And then, how often are we later burdened with regret for those foolish actions?
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Good Friday | Holy Week | catholic family life
Behold, behold, the wood of the cross, on which is hung our salvation. O come, let us adore. These familiar words are often intoned each year at the Good Friday service. On this somber day that we yet call "good,” what further words can be said? Perhaps just a few. Looking at the cross of Christ, we can say, “Thank you.”
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Good Friday | Holy Week | catholic family life
Do you struggle to find ways to observe Good Friday with your young family? It’s true that Holy Thursday (everyone can relate to a meal with friends) and Easter Sunday (who doesn’t like a party?) are much more “comfortable” for us, whereas Good Friday is definitely uncomfortable. The brutal torture that Jesus went through leading up to His Death on the Cross is too much for many adults to bear, much less young children. For good reason, we don’t want to scare our children by exposing them to the violence, brutality, and sadness of Good Friday. But, if we leave that part out of the Easter story, we’re missing a BIG part of the message of Easter.
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