Category Archives: Catholic

Dec 06 2019

Hospitality

Click here for daily readings When he entered the house, the blind men approached him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I can do this?” There is a beautiful subtlety to this story that often gets overlook...

Dec 05 2019

The Short List

Click here for daily readings This past weekend, we listened to the Sunday Gospel in which Jesus is amazed by the soldier’s faith in him. We receive the line that we hear in Mass each week as the centurion says, ...

Dec 04 2019

The Fulfillment of our Desire

Click here for daily readings “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” – St. Teresa of Calcutta Throughout today’s readings, we hear of Christ’s ability to f...

Dec 03 2019

Emmanuel: God WITH US

Click here for daily readings If you’ve ever heard me speak, you’ve undoubtedly heard me ask, “Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing on this planet?” Because every important journey begins wit...

Dec 02 2019

A Different Kind of Simplicity

Click here for daily readings Here we are. We’ve made it. We are in a new liturgical year, a new season. Advent! The Lord is coming. He is drawing nigh. Our Savior, the adorable little Christ Child will soon be born. I don...

Dec 01 2019

You Know The Time

Click here for daily readings “You know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed; the night is advanced, the day is at hand.” -Romans 13:11...

Nov 30 2019

Follow and Become a Fisher of Men

Click here for daily readings You must accept your cross; if you bear it courageously, it will carry you to Heaven. St. John Vianney Reading today’s Gospel I think of how it can be so easy to follow Christ at times while o...

Nov 29 2019

How Near Is The Kingdom Of God?

Click here for daily readings As we draw near to the end of Ordinary Time, preparing to enter into Advent, the Gospel readings are… serious. Jesus is giving serious warnings about the destruction of Jerusalem, about signs...

Nov 28 2019

To Be Human

Click here for daily readings “And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to take place, stand erect, hold your heads high because your liberation is near at...

Nov 27 2019

A Lenten Approach To Advent

Click here for daily readings I am intrigued by the readings leading up to the First Sunday of Advent. After celebrating the Solemnity of Christ the King, in which we hear the Gospel taking place at the crucifixion, the Gospels ...

Nov 26 2019

Awesome Signs Will Come From The Sky

Click here for daily readings We are in the “end times” of the Liturgical Year of the Church. If you, like me, closely follow the entire Liturgical Year (Advent to the Feast of Christ the King), we see that it follow...

Nov 25 2019

I Gave You All

Click here for daily readings When speaking about this Gospel, Pope Francis said, “Faced with the needs of others, we are called to deprive ourselves of essential things, not only the superfluous; we are called to give the...

Nov 24 2019

Expectant Faith

Click here for daily readings I think sometimes we lose the depth of scripture because we have 2,000 years of theological insight and historical data to help us interpret what is being said. The beautiful then becomes commonplac...

Nov 23 2019

Follow the Thread

Click here for daily readings When I was studying for my Master’s degree in leadership, I remember one of my professors emphasizing not to get hung up on the complaints that people bring, but to listen behind the questions...

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 21 2019

First Sunday of Advent: December 1st

We know that there are three comings of the Lord. The third lies between the other two. It is invisible, while the other two are visible… In the first coming he was seen on earth, dwelling among men; he himself testifies that they saw h...

Nov 21 2019

Hope and Action

Click here for daily readings It’s the end of the liturgical year with its amazing readings that remind us of three things: 1) God has a purpose that unfolds in history; 2) individuals, groups and nations can thwart that p...

Nov 20 2019

All We Need, And More

Click here for daily readings Does your parish church have stained glass windows? Then you will appreciate Pope Benedict XVI’s observation that from the outside, the windows look dark and dull, but when you are inside the ...

Nov 19 2019

Distance

Click here for daily readings I have heard today’s Gospel reading many times, as I’m sure you have as well. We hear of Zacchaeus, a well-known tax collector that took more than his share from the people. Still, Jesus...

Nov 18 2019

Seeing is Believing

Click here for daily readings I have a confession to make: I don’t notice things. I’ll have spent half an hour with someone, and they’ll finally ask, “So what do you think of my new glasses?” I neve...