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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Jesus, how many times do I have to forgive someone if they have sinned against me? Peter was asking a question that many of us may have asked at one time or another in our lives. Consider yourselves blessed if you have never been hurt by what someone said or did to you. Peter was conflicted...
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Father Adam Booth, C.S.C., Faculty Fellow in Theology at Stonehill College: "God grants Moses a great gift, but a partial one only. God takes Moses up a mountain and shows him the entirety of the Promised Land. And that’s an amazing gift: the intimacy with God it involved; the beauty of the view, I’m sure; and the fact that it represented a pledge that God makes good on promises. God’s People would have their own land, just as was promised them. But it was partial..."
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Learn more about our faith | Return to the Church
In the early centuries of the Church there were some very difficult times, as faithful believers tried to express what we really believe about Christ. Particularly, how to begin to grasp the meaning and put into words, that in Jesus, God comes to us, revealing that the One God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! How is Jesus both fully God and fully Man?
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Learn more about our faith | Love thy Neighbor
The Bible shows us that at times Moses struggled with the responsibilities entrusted to him. The Israelites were getting a little tired of the manna that God gave them, and they grumbled over it. They missed the meat and vegetables they ate in Egypt. Moses was upset with God because he had to deal with the complaints of the Israelites.
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One day, a parishioner asked her pastor: "Father, why doesn’t God simplify things for us? Can’t He bring about peace by keeping good people alive and eliminating all those who are evil?" The pastor took his turn to pose a question, "If you are the mother of ten children, five of whom are behaving well, and five of whom are giving you terrible headaches, will you eliminate your bad children?" Immediately, the woman said, "Of course not!"
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Our Holy Cross community in North Easton, MA with its twenty priests and one brother welcomed a new religious superior. He met with us individually asking us about our lives in community, what we expected from him and the big question, “do we have a spiritual director”. I’m sure this question elicited a lot of different responses.
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