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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
He was a master at tagging people with a nickname. Maybe because he himself was saddled with the Baptismal name of Octave. My grandfather loved his grandchildren and loved to saddle them with nicknames that reflected their personalities, especially the boys. There was "Bonhomme" for a male cousin, meaning good man. I have no idea to this day what his real name was because we always called him "Bonhomme."
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Blessed Basil Moreau, as the Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, is the spiritual father of all Holy Cross priests, brothers and sisters, like those of us serving in Family Rosary. He is the spiritual father of Venerable Patrick Peyton. Their lives bear some striking resemblance.
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Today’s first reading is a classic. It features the inexperienced and diminutive David against the seasoned and imposing Philistine, in a battle to the death. It doesn’t seem like a fair fight; that either man would ever be forced to face the other. And yet, David is victorious against all odds.
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Robert Frost began his poem "Mending Wall" with "Something there is that doesn’t love a wall" and ends it with "Good fences make good neighbors." In today’s gospel, Jesus rebukes the Pharisees who criticize His disciples for plucking and eating some heads of grain while walking through a field.
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This healing of a paralytic is a beloved and striking miracle. We can imagine the house where Jesus was staying in Capernaum packed with people; and then all the commotion when they were lowering the guy through the roof, and even more when he got up, picked up his mat, and walked out!
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It is said that one day, Bob Cousy was shooting foul shots in the Boston Garden, and making the sign of the Cross before each shot, with the coaches looking on. When the legendary former Boston Celtics Coach and General Manager, Red Auerbach, who was Jewish, leaned over to his good friend on the sidelines, Cardinal Richard Cushing, he said, "Cardinal, when your boys make the Sign of the Cross before shooting, does that help them?"
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