Seek Out God
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Saturday, February 25, 2012
Saturday, February 25
I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners. – Luke 5:32
What a hopeful and comforting statement from our Savior in the gospel reading of today! I am just as sinful as the next man and I can’t help but smile and breathe a sigh of relief whenever I read this. We are all sinners yet God calls us change and even desires, as the physician, to heal us and spend... READ MORE
Lenten Reflections
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
This Lenten season, we’ll be running a daily essay from a Lenten booklet I helped compile. If you’d like more information on the project, please read here.
Ash Wednesday, February 22
An interesting phenomenon will occur the week of Mardi Gras. Parish Office phones will be ringing off the hook. “When do you give out ashes?” “When can I come and get ashes?” And this will be verified on Ash Wednesday... READ MORE
Seventy Seven Times
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Faith on Tuesday, March 29, 2011
This morning, I sat in morning mass listening to my amazing pastor homilize on today’s gospel reading from Matthew 18. I’d read the gospel earlier in the morning, and had stopped to ask myself if there was anyone I needed to work on forgiving… any deeply held grudges or hurts that were causing me to withhold forgiveness like the indebted servant in Matthew’s gospel.
I think I tend to be a “forgive... READ MORE
A Drama Only Two People Saw
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Wednesday, February 02, 2011
I adore this depiction of the Presentation, which you can see better here. (Especially if you click the “framed” version.)
It captures the joy of today’s feast so perfectly.
What equally captures the joy of the Presentation is my friend Msgr. Charles Pope’s dramatic account of the scene.
He begins with an explanation of the two rites of the Old Law Joseph & Mary were fulfilling by going to the Temple... READ MORE
Sanctifying The Daily Grind
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Thursday, July 29, 2010
It intrigues me that though Mary chose the better part, it is Martha who has the feast day.
Fr. Z. offers a reflection on this—and an analysis of this Velazquez painting— here.
A taste:
In this life there is always a tension between the active and the contemplative, the daily grind and a true Christian’s desire for silence, recollection and prayer. There is a tension trap as well in the desire to be recognized or to have this or that position which is not to be had.
How do we rise to the challenge of bringing something of prayer and reflection to our daily work?
Click through for his thoughts.
Holy Week Traditions
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Friday, March 26, 2010
I don’t have a great attention span, and it’s a struggle for me to stay focused during the long haul of Lent. So I love Holy Week, because it gives me a chance to make that last push before we celebrate the Resurrection really count.
For a while I’ve had a tradition to make an extra sacrifice during the week leading up to the Triduum.
One crazy Holy Week during my college years I gave up eating everything... READ MORE
You Are My Beloved Son
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Faith on Saturday, January 09, 2010
Blessed Are You
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Faith on Saturday, December 19, 2009
First Sunday of Advent Message
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Faith on Saturday, November 28, 2009
All She Had
Posted by Danielle Bean in Faith on Sunday, November 08, 2009
Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, “Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.”
—Mark 12:43-44
Lord, we want to please you. Help us to give all we have too.
image credit: Amy Pectol
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