Category Archives: Beth Price

Dec 06 2018

Feast of St. Nicholas

Click here for daily readings The readings today speak of our trust and faith in the Lord. Both instruct us to have our Rock of faith as the Lord and keep our foundations in solidarity with Him, otherwise our houses, our lives w...

Nov 20 2018

Christ Has No Body But Yours

Click here for daily readings The Tuesday before Thanksgiving finds many folks in the USA preparing on multiple levels. While some are getting grocery shopping done so a feast may be readied, others are cleaning in order to welc...

Nov 05 2018

Finding Inner Peace

Click here for daily readings We have 3 short passages from the Bible today. As I sit with them, I realize that I have found my peace, just as our psalm today asks us to respond. Hmmm…That has not been true during most of...

Oct 24 2018

The Guest House

Click here for daily readings I really like St. Peter. His question in today’s Gospel gives me much hope. He, as I so often do, has to ask the obvious: is this just for us or for everyone? Yes and yes! Jesus, as he was pro...

Oct 10 2018

Our Father

Click here for daily readings The gospel today is the short version of the Our Father prayer we know so well. I find myself called to go deeper and share with you an expanded version of this prayer, inspired by St. Francis of As...

Oct 04 2018

The Memorial Of St. Francis Of Assisi

Click here for daily readings The readings today are so so fitting as we celebrate the memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francis, like Job in the first reading, had a privileged life, both being from upper-middle-class ...

Sep 10 2018

Compassionate Like Our Lord

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings speak about following the light. We are called to clear out our boastful, prideful, wicked, immoral, malicious ways (yes, all of these in the reading from 1 Cor 5) so that we ...

Sep 01 2018

Francis, Reformer Of The Church

Click here for daily readings “…God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong,…” 1 Cor 1:27 The readings today are very timely to help address...

Aug 23 2018

Invitation To The Wedding Feast

Click here for daily readings As I prayed with today’s readings I kept going back to the kingdom of heaven being similar to a wedding feast for a king’s son, like in the gospel and the first reading when the Lord say...

Aug 11 2018

Faith Like A Mustard Seed

Click here for daily readings The gospel today has Jesus saying, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you?” (Mt 17:17). He’s addressing the disciples who wer...

Aug 06 2018

Preaching The Transfiguration

Click here for daily readings The Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord is not a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church. It is, however, written about in all three synoptic gospels: Matthew 17:1-8, Mark 9:2-9 and Luke ...

Jul 27 2018

Shepherds After My Own Heart

Click here for daily readings “I will appoint over you shepherds after my own heart, who will shepherd you wisely and prudently.” Jer 3:15 Today’s readings are full of imagery: rebellious children, sheph...

Jul 17 2018

Faith Keeps Hope Alive

Click here for daily readings The readings today are harsh. In the Gospel, Jesus is reproaching the towns in which many of his miracles had been done. Many of those in the towns did not repent and change their ways. They saw peo...

Jul 05 2018

Your Sins Are Forgiven

Click here for daily readings “Your sins are forgiven”. Four words that are so very powerful. These words give me such peace when the priest confessor says them to me as I receive a blessing at the close of each and ...

Jun 27 2018

Remain in Me

Click here for daily readings “Teach me the way of your decrees, O Lord”, is the responsorial psalm for today. I don’t know about you, but I need this constant reminder. I must focus on the decrees of the Lord ...

Jun 19 2018

Love One Another

Click here for daily readings The verse announcing the Gospel today is crystal clear: “I give you a new commandment; love one another as I have loved you”. John 13:34 So why is it that I have said, &ldqu...

Jun 05 2018

Don’t Believe the Lie

Click here for daily readings While praying with today’s readings, my mind kept being pulled to the following two lines in the Gospel: “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you are not concerned with...

May 19 2018

Holy Spirit Come

Click here for daily readings The readings for today have been challenging me. My initial reaction to the first reading is, ugh, Paul imprisoned for a long time, yet a faithful witness. OK, really not the path I want to see myse...

May 09 2018

Letting Go and Letting God

Click here for daily readings May is filled with an abundance of celebrations: Baptisms, First Eucharist, graduations, retirements, weddings, anniversaries and funerals. Each milestone has its own unique character, anticipation,...

May 07 2018

A Person’s a Person No Matter How Small

Click here for daily readings ‘I Hate You,’ my child screams at me. ‘Well, you aren’t my favorite person right now either, but I LOVE YOU. Now, you’re grounded, or go to your room, or no car keys fo...