Category Archives: Catholic

Aug 29 2020

He Must Increase

Click here for daily readings “Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist” (Matt 11:11). Today we celebrate a great saint, although he never refers to ...

Aug 28 2020

Buying Oil

Click here for daily readings I’ve always been fascinated by the image of ten virgins in the dead of night, each nursing a solitary flame. They are waiting, as women tend to do, for a bridegroom to appear. When he ...

Aug 27 2020

Wake Up Your Faith

Click here for daily readings Before you read any further, pause. Take a few minutes to evaluate your spiritual life. How is your relationship with God? Are you on fire, full of zeal for the Lord? Are you keeping the Lor...

Aug 26 2020

Has Anything Really Changed?

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings sound like a major slap in the face to those that it may apply to. But, there are times in our lives when that is exactly what we need. In the First Reading, Paul is t...

Aug 25 2020

Living and Effective

Click here for daily readings “The word of God is living and effective, able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.” Today’s Gospel is part of a succession of statements from Jesus which begi...

Aug 24 2020

Divine Power

Click here for daily readings I love the snark coming from Jesus in the Gospel today. First off, we see Nathanael doubting that anything good could possibly come from Nazareth. You can almost feel the uppity attitude thr...

Aug 23 2020

A City On a Rock

Click here for daily readings Caesarea Philippi was built like a fortress on a rocky cliff; it seemed a city secure from all invaders. It is here that Jesus chooses to openly reveal himself and his plan for a secure City ...

Aug 22 2020

Unless You Become As Little Children…

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel reading can be summed up in this warning: “Beware the paparazzi!” Of course, 99% of us aren’t that high profile that we have to worry about a crowd of p...

Aug 21 2020

Breathing the Breath of God

Click here for daily readings I had quite the feisty temper when I was little and my mother would always tell me to take a deep breath before responding if my reaction could be hurtful or damaging. The power of that one b...

Aug 20 2020

It’s a Relationship, Not a To-Do List

Click here for daily readings There are so many beautiful components to our faith. We have Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, the teachings of which Christ has given us to continue living the faith while we wait for H...

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 18 2020

ALL THINGS are Possible…For GOD

Click here for daily readings Our family was recently blessed to take a 5-day vacation in northern Michigan. Although our excursion didn’t take us to the Upper Peninsula, we were far enough north to feel the cool m...

Aug 17 2020

Where Is Your Treasure Stored?

Click here for daily readings In today’s gospel, we see a man asking Jesus what he needs to do to gain eternal life. Surprisingly, we don’t hear the ‘Grace Alone’ response of “Nothing at all...

Aug 16 2020

Are You In… Or Out?

Click here for daily readings Were you one of the cool kids at school? I wasn’t, not until the very end of my high school career when I earned some respect by being dramatically anti-cool (which comes to me quite n...

Aug 15 2020

It Is Fitting

Click here for daily readings “It was fitting that she, who had kept her virginity intact in childbirth, should keep her own body free from all corruption even after death. It was fitting that she, who had carried ...

Aug 14 2020

What God Has Joined, Man Must Not Separate

Click here for daily readings “Because of the hardness of your hearts…” In today’s Gospel reading, we hear Jesus say this as a response to the Pharisees who tested him, questioning if it is lawful...

Aug 13 2020

Divine Forgiveness

Click here for daily readings Imagine the tangible power of forgiveness? Have you ever experienced it? In the fallen and broken world we live in, forgiveness is what can make us whole again, it is what can fill in t...

Aug 12 2020

We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know, So We Need Each Other

Click here for daily readings Sometimes, we don’t know what we don’t know. Sometimes, we don’t know that the way we are reaching for our goals is hurtful to others or ourselves, or even that our goals ar...

Aug 11 2020

The One vs. the 99

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel is one of the most well-known Gospel stories we have. We are told that, in order to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven we must become like a child. Children are not jaded, cyn...

Aug 10 2020

Letting Go

Click here for daily readings A colleague and I were discussing the age-old dilemma of finding new people to step up and share leadership in an organization. It doesn’t matter what type of organization you are in, t...