Dwell

Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Saturday, March 31, 2012

Saturday March 31st

My dwelling shall be with them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people. – Ez. 37:27

If you could sit down and have a dinner conversation with any one person in history who would it be? I believe the most common answer is Jesus Christ. Why? Because not only is He the most influential man in history, He is God. God – who dwelt among His people for 33 years. Men witnessed... READ MORE

No Ordinary Week

Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Friday, March 30, 2012

Friday, March 30

“And many there began to believe in Him”

This Sunday is Palm Sunday, the beginning of the high holy days of Christianity. It begins Holy Week. This is a week when we want our minds and hearts to be with Jesus. Of course, the Sacred Triduum is the most important part of the week, leading to Easter Sunday: Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Holy Thursday is the night Jesus... READ MORE

Oh How We Complain

Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Wednesday, March 28

But with their patience worn out by the journey,
the people complained against God and Moses,
“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert,
where there is no food or water?
We are disgusted with this wretched food!”

What is the context for today’s Old Testament reading? The people have been rescued from Egypt by the miraculous Ten Plagues, the last of which was... READ MORE

Pray for Vocations

Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Tuesday, March 27

Psalm 102 begins, “O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you.”  These are the words that begin a prayer I have heard since my childhood. The Diocese of Savannah chose the beginnings of this psalm for their prayer to increase vocations.

Oh Lord, hear my prayer and let my cry come unto you. Bless our Diocese of Savannah with many priestly and religious vocations. Give the... READ MORE

Mary's Yes

Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Monday, March 26, 2012

Monday, March 26

“Behold I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.”

Today we celebrate Mary’s Fiat—her yes to God, her willingness to abandon her own plans to do what God asked of her.

What an impact her Yes had on the rest of humanity!

We should be inspired by Mary’s yes, to take the very obvious lesson that we, too, should be willing to do whatever God asks of us.... READ MORE

Speak the Truth

Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Friday, March 23, 2012

Friday, March 23

“His hour had not yet come.”

Everyone likes to be liked.  Having others like and esteem us is so important that vanity can easily become one’s dominant defect. Vanity; the word means emptiness. People are so fickle.  They like you today and tomorrow they forget you. Jesus experienced this horribly. In the space of one week, the crowds went from screaming, “Hosanna in the highest. ... READ MORE

Whose Children Are These?

Features | Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Thursday, March 22, 2012

I have a little game I like to play with my small children, a diversion I invoke when toddlers hit that age of abject crazy that turns even the simplest tasks into epic endeavors.

We call it, “Store.”

Store is primarily for two things: putting on shoes and getting into the car seat. Those seem to be the two worst activities in the entire history of the world, if a two-year-old is to be believed. For... READ MORE

Jesus and Me: It's Personal

Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Thursday, March 22, 2012

Thursday, March 22

We are so quick to forget what God has done in our lives! Just like the Israelites. Moses led them out of Egypt, and yet the second they experience any hardship, they turn back to their idolatrous ways. How often are we blessed in some way, but then as soon as things get a little rocky, we forget the amazing things God has done for us, in us, and through us?

Something to chew on... READ MORE

Gifts from God

Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Wednesday, March 21

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; 
my Lord has forgotten me.”
Can a mother forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb?
Even should she forget,
I will never forget you.

What is your image of your heavenly Father? An old man with a long white beard and flowing robes? What is his temperament? A type of kindly grandfather or perhaps a stern schoolteacher... READ MORE

Fear Not

Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Tuesday, March 20

The Lord of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob.
God is our refuge and our strength,
an ever-present help in distress.
Therefore we fear not, though the earth be shaken
and mountains plunge into the depths of the sea

A ten-second scan of Facebook, Twitter, CNN or even people.com can make us feel like the world is spinning out of control. Everywhere we look, there... READ MORE

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