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Today’s readings have a strong and obvious theme of God’s faithfulness. How does this relate to the Feast of the Holy Family?
I remember the day my first child discovered that game all toddlers love while sitting in their high chair: dropping food and watching mommy frantically clean up. Grace delighted in dropping bits one by one, even dropping them on me as I was bent over, clearing up. I was getting frustrated; but later, while she was blessedly napping, I reflected on St. Teresa of Kolkata’s words about the holiness of little things done with great love.
What is family life but a series of little things, mundane chores, done over and over? It is keeping faithful, staying with the routine. Family life is not always glamorous or exciting, but it does call out from each of us a depth of faithfulness that finds its inspiration in God’s faithfulness to Abraham, to Simeon, and to Anna. Do we have eyes to see the graces in the ordinary everyday life given to us?