Category Archives: Advent 2019

Dec 25 2019

The Word Became Flesh

Click here for daily readings Theology sometimes gets a bad wrap for being impractical or abstract. Well, today, theology becomes the most practical thing in the world. This is what we celebrate during Christmas, is that the stu...

Dec 24 2019

An Open Door

Click here for daily readings Waiting. Anticipation. Hope. We have arrived at the doorstep of Christmas. This afternoon, many of us will depart our houses, hands laden with all the makings of a celebration: gifts, food, cookies,...

Dec 23 2019

Starry, Starry Night

Click here for daily readings How often do you contemplate the night sky? Especially those clear, cold nights when the stars show so brightly we wish we could reach up and touch them. The city lights tend to obscure the beauty, ...

Dec 22 2019

God Speaks

Click here for daily readings Do you ever wish God would send an angel to tell you exactly what his plan for you is? I remember times during discernment where I literally begged for God just to be clear. I wanted him to come dow...

Dec 21 2019

Living Tabernacles

Click here for daily readings Mary set out in haste and traveled to the house of Zechariah, where she greeted Elizabeth. Let’s try that again: Mary, carrying within her the Son of God, set out in haste to bring Jesus to th...

Dec 20 2019

O Key of David

Click here for daily readings The reality of my failure to plan appropriately for this season is beginning to show. The super cute cardboard houses that I just had to paint and cover with glitter so they could decorate our home ...

Dec 19 2019

How Can I Know This?

Click here for daily readings Zechariah. Elderly. Devoted. Righteous. Carefully carrying out his priestly duty, entering the sanctuary to burn incense. Focused on his duties… I’m chuckling to myself as I think of it...

Dec 18 2019

A Righteous Man

Click here for daily readings One of my favorite things about St. Joseph is the fact that he never speaks in Scripture, yet we can learn so much about the man he was. In today’s Gospel, we can learn a great deal about the ...

Dec 17 2019

Foundational Wisdom

Click here for daily readings So what is the deal with the list of ancestors? In the Gospels, we get Jesus’ genealogy, not once but twice! Since nothing happens in the Bible without a purpose, we can only ask, “Why?&...

Dec 16 2019

Are You Asking the Right Questions?

Click here for daily readings She always knew the answer before she asked the question. Who tracked the mud in the kitchen? Who ate the last cookie and didn’t get rid of the wrapping? Who left their bookbag in the entry-wa...

Dec 15 2019

Gaudete! Rejoice!

Click here for daily readings Our liturgies for this Sunday take on a different tone than the first two Sundays of Advent. The vestments for Mass are rose instead of violet, and we light a pink candle to represent joyfulness in ...

Dec 14 2019

The Telling of Jesus

Click here for daily readings In the First Reading today, we hear of the wondrous deeds of Elijah, re-establishing the tribes of Jacob. In today’s Gospel we hear about prophets telling the coming of Elijah and John the Bap...

Dec 13 2019

Bringing the Light to Every Darkened Place

Click here for daily readings Jesus’ generation is much like ours, with people ready to take up the gossip on the prevailing wind and believe whatever is being said, rather than working to see the truth and go against the ...

Nov 21 2019

First Sunday of Advent: December 1st

We know that there are three comings of the Lord. The third lies between the other two. It is invisible, while the other two are visible… In the first coming he was seen on earth, dwelling among men; he himself testifies that they saw h...