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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
“Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.” Those are the words that I most often say at the end of Mass. And they’re the words that each one of us tries to live each day, guided by the Word of God and the promptings of the Holy Spirit. But we know that our ways don’t always naturally follow God’s.
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Love thy Neighbor | Return to the Church
How many times I yearned to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings" ~Luke 13: 34b When I was growing up as a kid, we had chickens at home. Have you ever seen a mother hen caring for her young? If she sees an eagle circling overhead, she instinctively gives a warning sound, and the baby chicks run to hide under her wings. When dark storm clouds fill the sky and thunder roars and lightning flashes, she quickly makes a sound that draws her brood to her. As night approaches and the shadows lengthen, she gives a quiet call that gathers her young to rest under her wings.
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In her book, Choose to Live Each Day Fully, Susan Smith Jones recommended the following Practice of Caring Behavior for couples to achieve marital happiness. She suggested you ask your spouse to provide you with a list of things that you would do which will make him or her feel good. A few examples of things on the list would be: Wash my hair for me; open the door for me; take me to dinner so I won't have to cook. Every day, try to do at least three things on the list for your spouse. Ensure that you acknowledge your partner's efforts and show your appreciation as well.
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Love thy Neighbor | Strengthening family unity
Today we celebrate the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist. He was a writer and physician who labored to portray for us in the Scriptures the gentleness and compassion of the Lord. He wrote several stories about Jesus healing the sick, or Jesus looking out for the poor and other kinds of people on the margins of society. Luke’s background as a physician certainly contributed to his special concern for the poor, the suffering, the outcasts, and women.
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There are three persons in the story Jesus tells us today: there is (1) the guest who turned up unexpectedly at his friend's house, (2) the owner of the house, and (3) the third, a neighbor friend who is asked for three loaves of bread in the middle of the night. Which one of these three should we identify with?
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Holy lives of inspiration | Love thy Neighbor
In the opening couple of lines in the movie PRAY, about the life of Venerable Patrick Peyton, Seamus, an Irishman, half-jokingly says the phrase, "you can't make this up." Seamus is referring to the incredible story about to be retold through the movie—it is all true; it all happened. The story of how Father Peyton, a young Irishman, left Ireland for America, an immigrant who came to live with his sister in Scranton, PA, and would go on to become a priest known the world over.
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