Category Archives: Catholic

Feb 21 2020

A Hard Take on Discipleship

Click here for daily readings When I interviewed for my current youth ministry job, my now-coworkers asked me, “So what do you know about St. Peter Church?” Thanking the Lord I had spent time looking at the parish we...

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 19 2020

Walking Toward Heaven with Christ

Click here for daily readings The Responsorial Psalm for today is, “Who shall live on your holy mountain, O Lord?” Isn’t that a question we ask ourselves pretty regularly? Maybe it’s weird, but I often th...

Feb 18 2020

Joy in Christ’s Presence

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, Jesus asks His disciples, “Do you not yet understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear?” Christ is pointin...

Feb 17 2020

Seeing Signs

Click here for daily readings “He sighed from the depth of his spirit and said, ‘Why does this generation seek a sign?:’” -Mark 8:12 There are four thousand hungry people who had come to a deserted place ...

Feb 16 2020

The Power of Christ

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel is quite long but so rich. At first, it can seem like Jesus is in a bad mood during these readings and is just calling people out left and right, condemning them. While these re...

Feb 15 2020

The Amazing Value of Not Much, Not Many

Click here for daily readings How much time do you have? How much money do you have? How much patience do you have? How many talents do you have? How much energy do you have? How much prayer time do you have? How many gifts do y...

Feb 14 2020

The Circus Won’t Be Coming To Town

Click here for daily readings Recently my small town got very involved in a major brouhaha. We’re a tourist destination, and most people meet their financial obligations by working in the summertime and then trying to live...

Feb 13 2020

We Can Always Gamble On God’s Mercy

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel gives hope to the heart of any parent, to any of us really. Any creature who is desperately in distress, as this woman was, can gamble on the mercy of God and win. This wo...

Feb 12 2020

Rooted in His Ways

Click here for daily readings In Today’s Responsorial Psalm, we hear that if the law of God is in your heart, your steps do not falter. It states that the LORD helps them and delivers us from the wicked and saves us becaus...

Feb 11 2020

May All Our Temples Be Sanctuaries

Click here for daily readings In today’s First Reading, Solomon utters a beautiful, awe-filled prayer of blessing over the temple. He humbly realizes that this new structure cannot contain the God of heaven and earth, but ...

Feb 10 2020

Who’s Your Superstar

Click here for daily readings The day I started to think about this post was the day Donald Trump held one of his rallies in New Jersey. The news reported that people were lining up at the venue as much as 48 hours before the ev...

Feb 09 2020

A Light to the Whole World

Click here for daily readings A sacrament is a visible sign of invisible grace, of the grace of God. When we receive the Eucharist in the Mass, we are physically receiving God’s love and have that love not only in our hear...

Feb 08 2020

Rest A While

Click here for daily readings The world is a busy place – fast paced, on-the-go, and often yielding a need for multitasking. It is hard to find time for rest and silence in the world today. There are so many demands, so mu...

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...

Feb 06 2020

Disciples Making Disciples

Click here for daily readings How often do we forget our call, our vocation, as Catholic Christians? We might get hung up on the word “vocation,” thinking that, “I’m living out my marriage/priesthood/reli...

Feb 05 2020

A Lack of Faith

Click here for daily readings “Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.’ So he was not able to perform any might deed there, apa...

Feb 04 2020

Arise

Click here for daily readings In the Gospel reading today, we hear of two miraculous occasions of healing. The story begins with a father seeking out Jesus for the healing of his daughter, who is at the point of death. Immediate...

Feb 03 2020

Begging Jesus to Leave

Click here for daily readings At first, today’s Gospel seems like a straightforward story of Jesus healing another person, freeing him from demonic possession and telling him to go and share his personal good news. But tha...

Feb 01 2020

The Tempest of Envy

Click here for daily readings “We fight one another, and envy arms us against one another…. If everyone strives to unsettle the Body of Christ, where shall we end up? We are engaged in making Christ’s Body a c...