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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Friends, all Lent is divided into two parts. The message running throughout the first three-and one-half weeks is a call to Gospel conversion, through prayer, fasting and almsgiving, through mutual forgiveness, love of enemies, a call to lead holy lives. The emphasis is on the ethical and moral. The failure of the workers in the vineyard, the call to treat others as we would like to be treated, are central. The Gospel readings are from Matthew, Mark, and Luke. By the midpoint of Lent, we all realize that we can not do this alone.
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"It is in Our Lady that God fell in love with Humanity." Since we celebrated the Annunciation last week I have been meditating on this thought that Caryll Houselander wrote in her beautiful work, The Reed of God. "It is in Our Lady that God fell in love with Humanity." This points to so much...
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It was not until I read a commentary about the first reading that everything said in that reading could be said of the millions of Ukrainians who were forced to flee their homeland because of the war, or peoples of other nations who today are also fleeing because of the conditions in their country. They too are exiles.
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As a priest confessor I am humbled by those who come and admit that at times they lost their way, their hearts had hardened, that they had closed their eyes and shut their ears to the ways of the Lord. It is difficult to confess these things, especially knowing, as we heard again today, that walking in the ways of the Lord is to our advantage and will lead us to prosperity.
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And Jesus said, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill." Listening to the questioning of a nominee for the Supreme Count of the United States, she was asked if she intended to abolish or change laws by her interpretations. It is a question that many nations have faced, and an issue that is broached in the Gospels.
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One of the great blessings of my childhood was attending our parochial school, which was run by dedicated religious sisters. At least once a month they paraded the entire student body over to church to confess our sins to one of the parish priests. One pastor had a reputation among us children for being severe, and doling out penances to match his reputation.
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