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The Grateful Spouse
If gratitude is good for building resilience in children and bolstering hope in adults, it’s close to a miracle drug for an ailing marriage. Here…
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Meditating with Children
Children as young as five can learn to meditate silently for a minute or two at a time. It may help them to have a…
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Couple Prayer
For couples, one way to embrace a Year of Grace is to pray together as a couple. Based in the Sacrament of Matrimony, couple prayer…
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A Year of Grace
On Pentecost 2012 Australian Catholics begin a ‘Year of Grace’: a time for all to deepen our relationship with Jesus. In a courageous and humble…
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Washing of Feet
In the time of Jesus, washing was part of Jewish custom as a symbol of ritual purification. Washing is also part of the celebration of…
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The Last Supper and the Jewish Passover
At Mass on Holy Thursday night Catholics enter the journey of their Saviour who walked the path of suffering and death to resurrection. At home…
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Family Unity Is the Responsibility of All
Some of the most persistent and hateful disagreements happen between family members. Regardless of who started it or who behaved worse, reconciliation is the responsibility…
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Restoring Couple Unity
What most often brings couples undone, is not one massive act of betrayal, but the myriad of daily pinpricks of hurt. Criticism, put downs, rudeness,…
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Couple’s Corner: November 2011
Who is King in our Marriage? God calls couples to place Jesus at the centre of our marriage – to let him reign over our…
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The Story of Our Lady of Guadalupe
In 1519, the Spaniard Hernan Cortes arrived in Aztec Mexico with his small band of soldiers. By 1521, Cortes and his local allies had defeated…
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Our Lady of Guadalupe
Carl Anderson underscores the incredible complexity of the Image. Every detail about the image had a meaning for the indigenous people, The image itself was…
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