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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
It’s great to be back: my first visit home since last June! I am serving in Santiago, Chile now, since a year and a half ago when our Provincial superior asked me to go there to be the director of the seminary for Latin America of our Congregation of Holy Cross. I am helping in our Family Rosary in Chile, too.
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The feeding of the 5000+ is one of my favorite Biblical stories. It mirrors earlier years when God fed the Israelites in the desert with Manna, and it also mirrors the Eucharist we celebrate where the Lord feeds us and satisfies our deepest "hungers."
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There’s a striking parallel with the incidents in the readings from the Book of Daniel and from the Gospel of John. In both stories, a woman, threatened by a crowd, is saved because one person intervenes and alters things. The stories, however, end very differently: one in peace and the other in violence.
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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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