Category Archives: Beth Price

Nov 13 2020

Choose Love

Click here for daily readings Today the Church celebrates St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. Mother Cabrini was the first citizen of the United States to become a saint. She worked with immigrants, established schools and hospi...

Oct 30 2020

The Community of My Heart

Click here for daily readings “…I hold you in my heart, you who are all partners with me in grace…how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. And this is my prayer: that your love ma...

Oct 09 2020

Human Fraternity

Click here for daily readings The themes in today’s readings, beginning with the prophet Abraham saying, ‘through you shall all the nations be blessed’ and the Alleluia, ‘I will draw all to myself...

Sep 25 2020

An Appointed Time For Everything

Click here for daily readings Time. An interval that constantly ticks forward, one second, one blink, one breath, to the next. There is no judgement or bias, right or wrong. It just continues on. The lines from Ecclesias...

Sep 04 2020

Light Of The World

Click here for daily readings The Gospel reading today says “…the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” Lk 5:35 It certainly feels like i...

Aug 19 2020

Where Are You At in Your Journey?

Click here for daily readings The readings today are rich with imagery: sheep, shepherds, landowners, laborers, the earth, pastures, valleys, and vineyards, marketplaces and wages. Sit with those images for a few moments....

Aug 07 2020

Follow Me

Click here for daily readings “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” (MT 16:24) This is the first line from today’s Gospel. It always catches my attention. This s...

Jul 17 2020

I Desire Mercy, Not Sacrifice

Click here for daily readings Yes, it is a Friday and today’s Gospel is about the sabbath law. The Catholic Catechism refers to sabbath law directly in number 2173: “The Gospel reports many incidents when Jesus was a...

Jul 08 2020

The Kingdom of God is at Hand

Click here for daily readings The phrase ‘the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God, is at hand is mentioned one hundred and twenty-two times in the gospels. We heard it twice today. I had to pause and sit with this state...

Mar 06 2020

The Friday of the First Week of Lent

Click here for daily readings I had no understanding of what it meant to fast or what Lent was really all about as a child. The crucifix and painting of Jesus were covered with purple cloth in my grandparents’ house and at...

Mar 02 2020

Me; A Goat, A Sheep, A Sinner?

Click here for daily readings Yes, is my answer to all three of the above. The readings today are a reminder of the importance of self vigilance in our lives. The first reading has Moses listening to the Lord, giving him t...

Feb 20 2020

Partiality

Click here for daily readings “However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you commit sin and a...

Feb 07 2020

Perspective

Click here for daily readings I recently had a visit with my spiritual director. I look forward to this dedicated time (for where two or more are gathered in my name, Mt 18:20) because we talk about the situations in my lif...

Jan 23 2020

The Quiet Voice of God

Click here for daily readings The readings today bring up some situations that challenge us in ways that can make us uncomfortable when we take a deeper look. The first reading has Saul contemplating murder because of his wounde...

Jan 08 2020

God is with Us

Click here for daily readings The reading from the first letter of John speaks of God’s love for us; as we are loved by God, so must we love one another. The love of God is brought to perfection through us because He is wi...

Dec 27 2019

Complete Joy

Click here for daily readings “We are writing this so our joy may be complete.” 1Jn 1:4 My youngest surprised me with her attendance at a family Christmas gathering last weekend. My joy was complete when she walked t...

Dec 07 2019

Active Waiting

Click here for daily readings It’s the first Saturday of Advent. We know it is a time of anticipating and preparing for the coming of our Lord. There is a flurry and hum to this season as we actively wait for the infant&rs...

Nov 22 2019

Straight Forward

Click here for daily readings The Gospel today is really straight forward. Jesus entered the temple area. Jesus drove out those selling in the area because they were making the temple a den of thieves, not a house of prayer. Jes...

Nov 07 2019

Let It Go

Click here for daily readings Oh, how I’ve been struggling with today’s readings. They appear straightforward, telling us to kneel before God, giving praise and rejoicing, as well as rejoicing among the angels for wh...

Nov 02 2019

All Souls Day

Click here for daily readings Today is the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, which is not a day of obligation. The day (and for many parishes the whole month of November) is a time when we pray for All Souls. We pray f...