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Conversation starters

Gathering at the Dinner Table provides an opportunity to connect with your family. Sometimes it may be difficult to start a conversation, but asking questions can help your family members to connect on a deeper level. Here are a wide range of interesting topics that they will enjoy and even learn from, without any lecturing. We have hundreds of questions for you to use that will get everyone involved.

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The Dinner Table

We are on a mission to reunite families at the Dinner Table.
Join us at The Dinner Table and to help families reconnect and communicate more effectively.
We want to help families be closer, sharing and loving. The Dining Table is not only an area for eating but a place for gathering, sharing, communicating and where relationships grow.
Here we will share ideas that will help make gathering around the table enjoyable and meaningful for all members of your family and we invite you to share your ideas and what have worked – and not worked for you.

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Longing to be a father

We can never know exactly what God’s plans are for our lives and Father’s Day can provoke feelings of ‘why I am different’ and ‘why is it that I don’t have children?’  #Father’sDay can be a sombre reminder of the desperation for a child with potential feelings of grief and hopelessness.   The grief or

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St Teresa of Calcutta

It was on September 10, 1946 during a train ride from Calcutta to Darjeeling for her annual retreat, that Mother Teresa received her “inspiration, her call within a call.” On that day, in a way she would never explain, Jesus’ thirst for love and for souls took hold of her heart and the desire to satiate His thirst became the driving force of her life.

By means of interior locutions and visions, Jesus revealed to her the desire of His heart for “victims of love” who would “radiate His love on souls.” “Come be My light,” He begged her. “I cannot go alone.”

Jesus revealed His pain at the neglect of the poor, His sorrow at their ignorance of Him and His longing for their love. He asked Mother Teresa to establish a religious community, Missionaries of Charity, dedicated to the service of the poorest of the poor.

Her feast day has also been declared the International Day of Charity by the United Nations.

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Saint Gregory the Great

Pope Gregory I, commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. He is known for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian Mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Gregory is also well known for his writings, which were more prolific than those of any of his predecessors as pope. A Roman senator’s son and himself the prefect of Rome at 30, Gregory lived in a monastery he established on his family estate before becoming a papal ambassador and then pope. He was the first pope from a monastic background,and a talented administrator. During his papacy, his administration greatly surpassed that of the emperors in improving the welfare of the people of Rome.

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