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Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel.

Today's Gospel: Luke 1:26-38

Our Blessed Mother, as a blossoming young woman, was well-schooled in the history of her people and her faith. She knew the Scriptures referring to the Messiah who was to come. God had given her fullness of grace, but it still came down to her saying yes.

I think that she had already lived a life of daily fiats, allowing God to guide her each and every day and use her in whatever way she was needed. She had been in training her whole life, in an atmosphere of love and faith that prepared her for her supreme fiat. In her innocence, she asked only a simple question and then gave that answer of infinite faith and love that we all know so well:

“May it be done to me according to your word.”

 

Ponder:

 

Is our home and family life set up for our children to grow strong in their faith and to find the courage and support to say yes when God calls them?

 

Pray:


Help me God, to instill in our children a strong desire to love and serve You in whatever way You call them. Form their hearts with a willingness to follow where You lead.

 

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Copyright 2024 Charlene Rack

About the Author

Charlene Rack

Charlene Rack

Charlene Rack grew up in the "heartland," moved south to Cincinnati, married a Catholic man, converted to Catholicism, and had three children. Along the way, she's planned many mission trips, youth groups, and pilgrimages to the March for life for teens and young adults - all carried out with her goofy sense of humor and her enthusiastic sense of adventure. Read her blog at Grandma’s Coffee Soup.