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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Holy lives of inspiration | Love thy Neighbor
One of the most frustrating experiences in life is when you have to deal with an individual or a group of people who won’t believe your story because it is too good to be true! In the scriptures we see the story of Noah, who warned the world that it had become too corrupt that if people didn’t change something bad would befall them. But no one would listen to Noah’s story of the coming floods except his immediate family. We have the Prophet Jeremiah that no one listened to, the Prophets Amos, Isaiah, and Micah—whose message was not taken seriously.
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Love thy Neighbor | Seasonal Reflections
The Gospels are replete with several examples of where the Scribes and the Pharisees disagreed with Jesus over some theological or pastoral matter. Surprisingly in today’s Gospel, both Jesus and the scribes seem to agree on something.
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The author, G.K. Chesterton, when asked why he became a Catholic, replied, “To have my sins forgiven.” This quote and today’s readings made me wonder, how many times have God, my family, friends, and others forgiven me since, say, 1970 … allegedly, that’s when I reached the age of reason, though I’m pretty sure I knew right from wrong a year earlier!
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The phrase, “Come let us set things right” in today’s readings, caused me to wonder, what is it in our lives that needs to be addressed this Lent, what needs to be set right?
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Healing the family | Love thy Neighbor
What’s God’s standard of mercy? In other words, what are the ground rules when we sin against God and one another? If we’re interested in making it to Heaven, that’s a really important question; one that God answers in today’s reading from Ezekiel and the Gospel of Matthew.
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The three main pillars of Lent are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Today’s first reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah teaches us about the kind of fasting that the Lord honors. In the reading, the Lord speaking through the Prophet Isaiah says that if you fast yet at the same time go on and mistreat your workers, underpay them, quarrel, gossip about others, fight other people – what kind of fast is that? How do you expect Me to honor your fast?
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