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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Today’s readings reveal several people in desperate situations. In the first reading, we see David desperate and crying bitterly over the loss of his son, Absalom who had been killed by his own men. Even though Absalom had sought to dethrone and assassinate David, the father could not stop loving his son.
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Last week when the Kansas City Chiefs, led by Patrick Mahomes, defeated the Buffalo Bills in overtime, the Chiefs were on top of the world, celebrating with unbridled exuberance and joy. Some sportswriters called that the best game in NFL history. I was so excited at half-time that I called one of our priests and said "...you have to come to the TV room because I can't watch this alone!"
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The Kingdom of Heaven is like the mustard seed, sown into the ground, becoming a great plant putting forth branches to shelter all. A beautiful image, yet we need to understand it more completely. If you imagine this plant to be like a tall tree with expansive branches, maybe like a great cedar or a redwood - that is not what Christ intends. He speaks of the mustard tree that stays lower to the ground, with a dense interweaving of its branches - beautiful in its own right, but not according to our preconceptions.
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A few nights ago I woke up about an hour before I had planned to, pretty well rested but with a few unsettling things on my mind and heart. However as I lay there, a little song soon simply popped into my mind. 'This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine. This little light of mine…'
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In our first reading today, we see a well-educated young Pharisee named Saul zealous for keeping the Jewish law. Seeing a conflict between the basic message of Christians that Jesus was the Messiah and the traditions of the fathers of Judaism, he has his sights set on removing Christians and their influence from the synagogues of Damascus.
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Patron of writers, Journalists and the Deaf. 1567-1622. As the elder son of a noble family in the Duchy of Savoy, he was intended to succeed his father as Duke. Instead, despite initial opposition from his father, he relinquished his place as eldest son to a younger brother to devote himself to the priesthood of Jesus Christ.
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