Category Archives: Allison Gingras

Apr 21 2022

An Untroubled Heart

Click here for daily readings Jesus stands amid the Apostles, offers his peace, and then further offers words of comfort with a proclamation to not let our hearts be troubled. Although not always the simplest task, God ne...

Mar 21 2022

Conversion in Unexpected Places

Click here for daily readings As a mother of three children, the desire to pass along my faith to them is great within me. When they were younger, it seemed easy. We attended Mass as a family, read the Bible and saint sto...

Feb 21 2022

Fidelity Helps My Unbelief

Click here for daily readings Often my prayer resembles the words spoken by the boy’s father in Mark’s Gospel, who has come to beg the Lord to heal his son, “But if you can do anything, have compassion o...

Jan 21 2022

A Modern Day Apostle

Click here for daily readings Do you consider yourself to be a disciple of Jesus Christ? Although clearly not one of the twelve, do you see yourself as an apostle? Do you show others God’s love, mercy, and hope like...

Jan 03 2022

Transformative Repentance

Click here for daily readings “From that time on, Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17). Mercy offered in the Sacrament of Reconciliation is transfo...

Dec 25 2021

The Grace of Christmas

Click here for daily readings Christmas morning, we wake to gifts under the tree, gifts nestled into stockings, and the celebration of the greatest gift of all—Jesus. God’s gifts are abundant; there is no spen...

Dec 12 2021

Declutter Your Troubled Heart

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, the crowds ask John the Baptist, “What then should we do?” In reply, he said to them, “Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none; an...

Nov 25 2021

Thankful in All Things

Click here for daily readings Today many of us will gather together with our loved ones for the first time in nearly two years. So many holidays have passed with us visiting on a screen or through a window, and I’m ...

Oct 25 2021

The Glory of a Day of Rest

Click here for daily readings God commands us to give our Sabbath to the Lord, not as a recommendation or suggestion, but as a command. If God made room for it on the tablets given to Moses, perhaps we ought to pay attent...

Sep 25 2021

Guarded by the Shepherd

Click here for daily readings Today’s Responsorial Psalm is, “The Lord will guard us as a shepherd guards his flock.” To more completely recognize the beauty, reassurance, and power of this promise, it m...

Aug 25 2021

Inspecting Our Insides

Click here for daily readings Does your outside match your inside? Actions, as they say, speak far louder than words. We reveal so much more of ourselves by our behavior than from what we say. However, even if we sometimes...

Jul 25 2021

Hearing Anew

Click here for daily readings Spend any amount of time in the Scriptures or attending Mass, and you may be tempted to let your mind drift during the readings with the misleading rationale, “I’ve heard this all...

Jun 25 2021

Jesus

Click here for daily readings While thankfully not a leprosy sufferer, I have dealt with eczema for many years, including a severe bout on my hands that left them virtually unusable. At their worst, swollen with horrendou...

May 25 2021

What Will I Leave Behind to Follow Christ

Click here for daily readings I have a lot of crazy things to bemoan. Most were embarrassing or even downright stupid: such as smoking, swearing, skipping school, driving too fast, bullying the poor boy that sat in front ...

May 11 2021

The Work of the Advocate

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, Jesus consoles the disciples with the promise of an Advocate—the Holy Spirit. His words, “it is better for you that I go,” must have been so confusi...

Apr 22 2021

Nourished By the Bread of Life

Click here for daily readings How ironic, I am writing this reflection on the Bread of Life—the Bread that comes down from heaven, the Living Bread, and Flesh for the World—in Adoration with my belly rumbling ...

Mar 27 2021

All Will Believe

Click here for daily readings “What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs. If we leave him alone, all will believe in him.” ~John 11:48 Although I have never personally met George Washington, I...

Feb 22 2021

Are You Blessed by Faith?

Click here for daily readings Jesus asked His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” The answers varied from a prophet to John the Baptist. He then asks the question each of us should carefully...

Jan 22 2021

Following Christ

Click here for daily readings Sometimes when I read the Twelve Apostles’ names, my mind wonders what did Jesus see in each one of these men that drew him to invite them to be his followers? Did Jesus see a light in ...

Mar 28 2017

Do You Want To Be Well?

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Do you ever feel like you are just waiting for someone to lift you into God’s healing waters...

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