Category Archives: Catholic

Oct 08 2020

Total Abandonment To The Will of God

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that we should pray with faith and persistence. When we pray faithfully and persistently, we admit how much we need God in our lives. Oftentimes we th...

Oct 07 2020

Our Lady Of The Rosary, Our Lady Of Victory

Click here for daily readings Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. Where does this title and celebration come from? At the last apparition of Fatima on October 13, Mary identified herself i...

Oct 06 2020

Working Against God

Click here for daily readings Pride comes before a fall, the old saying goes. When we succumb to pride, we find ourselves insisting that our way is the right way. Over time, we might come to find, like Paul and Martha, t...

Oct 05 2020

Seeing All the Characters

Click here for daily readings The story of The Good Samaritan is referenced widely in religious and secular circles. We all want to be the Samaritan, the one who reaches out and helps. We see the Samaritan as the he...

Oct 04 2020

Have No Anxiety At All

Click here for daily readings I’m a worrier. Probably as a typical American, I worry about money a lot. Perhaps many people’s goal each day is to make money. How much can one make in how little time. I also w...

Oct 03 2020

Potential Forecast of a Fair Weathered Disciple

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel reading is one that I had to read a couple times in order to understand what was going on. Jesus sometimes throws these curved balls where it’s hard to understand ...

Oct 02 2020

May The Angels Lead You Into Paradise

Click here for daily readings Today is the feast of the Guardian Angels. The first thing that comes to mind for me, and probably for you, is the famous image of an angel protecting a child as he or she walks across a bri...

Oct 01 2020

The Little Way of Greatness

Click here for daily readings “The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring wo...

Sep 30 2020

Before You Rest Your Head

Click here for daily readings “The Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head…” I don’t know about you but I am happy when I can lie down in my bed at night. I’m safe. I’m warm. I&...

Sep 29 2020

Angels

Click here for daily readings It seems many of us don’t give angels a lot of thought. When we do think about them, we tend to think about them in either a childish way (“Angel of God, my guardian dear…...

Sep 28 2020

Alone Together

Click here for daily readings As a Christian, I feel as though it’s easy to talk about Jesus’ suffering and death, but it’s a lot harder to understand my own. What do you do, for example, when you&rsquo...

Sep 27 2020

What is Your Opinion?

Click here for daily readings The Gospel for today basically describes 2,000 years of moral teaching with one simple question, “What is your opinion?” Jesus asks this to the chief priests and elders and gives...

Sep 26 2020

You Are Our Refuge

Click here for daily readings We are certainly living in a quickly changing time. When I was in grade school in the 50’s (gulp), adults talked about great occurrences 5, 10, 20 or 30 years prior. These days, someth...

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 24 2020

Seen by Jesus

Click here for daily readings “Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was greatly perplexed… …And he kept trying to see him.” This line always makes me chuckle. I understa...

Sep 23 2020

Pray, Hope, Don’t Worry

Click here for daily readings When I taught preschool, we put this phrase to the tune of “Old MacDonald’s Farm.” When I run into the parents of my former students, I often hear about how they are still ...

Sep 22 2020

We Are Family

Click here for daily readings “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it.” Today’s Gospel is one of the ones that critics use to argue against Mary’s perpetual vir...

Sep 21 2020

Follow Me

Click here for daily readings My family just moved to a small town outside the city. My boys now enjoy abundant playtime outside in our expansive backyard, and we sleep better at night without all the cars and motorcycle...

Sep 20 2020

So What’s In It For Me?

Click here for daily readings “Have I no right to do what I like with my own? Why should you be envious because I am generous?” As a cradle Catholic, I’ve found myself getting envious of people who are ...

Sep 19 2020

Listening and Learning

Click here for daily readings “Let everyone who has ears attend to what he has heard.” Jesus invites everyone present in this Gospel reading to listen and learn. He desires all of us to be with him in Heaven ...