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Sinead Strong hosts two guests for a conversation on weaving prayer into the demands of family life. Dr. Lynette McShane — mother of eight, sports psychologist, Neurolink practitioner, and co-founder of the Shelter Catholic Schools Retreat team — speaks about small daily anchors that ground her in faith. Morning prayer, the Angelus, the Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3pm, getting to daily Mass as a game-changer, and the importance of recognising the enemy’s tactics in the tiredness and resistance that arise before prayer.

She shares the Mother Teresa prayer “Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now” as a lifeline in dark nights of the soul, and the wisdom of allowing each family member, including husband and teenagers, to find their own path to God rather than imposing one. Fr. Darren Brennan of St. Paul’s Parish Belfast (familiar to listeners from Little Big Questions) then addresses the theology of the domestic church: the family as the fundamental building block of the Church itself, not an ornament to it; the graces flowing constantly through the sacrament of marriage; the challenge of community-building beyond Sunday Mass; and practical guidance on family prayer, neither the trellis too rigid nor too flimsy, with a one-decade rosary done well a better start than a full rosary abandoned in conflict.

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