Category Archives: Catholic

Nov 12 2019

Tis The Season

Click here for daily readings Oh my goodness! We are quickly rounding into the middle of November. All Hallow’s Eve passed in a flash, and immediately the Black Friday Christmas sales started. We are hearing all about how ...

Nov 11 2019

Worthy of Mercy

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings have a little bit of a heavier hand, with a lot of focus on sin and temptation and the ramifications. Hearing the line, “It would be better for him if a millstone were p...

Nov 10 2019

Eyes Set On Heaven

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, Jesus informs us that those who are married here on earth will no longer be given in marriage in Heaven. He shares this information with the Sadducees as they asked Jesus wh...

Nov 09 2019

And I Saw Water Flowing Out

Click here for daily readings If you have ever entertained the thought that you can hide your deeds from the Lord, as you do from your fellow men, you are sorely mistaken! How easy it must have been for the merchants in th...

Nov 08 2019

Gifts From God

Click here for daily readings Initially, this blog post was about a totally different topic, but as I was searching for my blog post image, I began to think more and more about what I had already written. The image I came across...

Nov 07 2019

Let It Go

Click here for daily readings Oh, how I’ve been struggling with today’s readings. They appear straightforward, telling us to kneel before God, giving praise and rejoicing, as well as rejoicing among the angels for wh...

Nov 06 2019

Jesus Is Not A Magic Genie

Click here for daily readings Is Jesus a benevolent giver who wants to give you good things? Does He intend to pave your way and keep things running smoothly? Does He want everyone to be happy and get along? Well, yes and no. Je...

Nov 05 2019

We Are One Body

Click here for daily readings I will never forget my first World Youth Day. I really wasn’t old enough to attend at just 13 years of age, but some members of my youth group were going and if Pope John Paul II was going to ...

Nov 04 2019

The Value of Suffering

Click here for daily readings “Oh, if only the suffering soul knew how it is loved by God, it would die of joy and excess of happiness! Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to s...

Nov 03 2019

Short Stature, Big Faith

Click here for daily readings I call today’s Gospel the reading for the short man. I relate to it a lot because I have always been short. Instead of being remembered for his hair color, physique, or heart, he is recognized...

Nov 02 2019

All Souls Day

Click here for daily readings Today is the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, which is not a day of obligation. The day (and for many parishes the whole month of November) is a time when we pray for All Souls. We pray f...

Nov 01 2019

Feast of All Saints!

Click here for daily readings Catholics are a curious group. More than any other Christian believers, they have a culture filled with saints. They name their children after saints, they invoke them in their speech, and they have...

Oct 31 2019

If God Is For Us, Who Can Be Against Us?

Click here for daily readings “What comes into our mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” (A. W. Tozer) The first sentence in today’s second reading would be enough. Because the rea...

Oct 30 2019

Where Does Goodness Come From?

Click here for daily readings There are days when everything goes ever-so-slightly wrong, aren’t there? When you feel you’re just not paying attention? I have those days fairly frequently. I snap at someone I care ab...

Oct 29 2019

Our Present Hope

Click here for daily readings One of my co-workers, who I admire, gave a talk at our school the other day. He talked about endurance and told us the definition of endurance: to suffer patiently. I’d never thought of endura...

Oct 28 2019

Called

Click here for daily readings During Eucharistic adoration with my high school teens last Monday night, I was struck by the word, “called.” We had just finished singing “O Come to the Altar,” where the li...

Oct 27 2019

Freedom in Humility

Click here for daily readings When looking up the definition of humility, I came across two different responses. It was first defined as a modest or low view of one’s own importance; humbleness. The second definition...

Oct 26 2019

The Case of the Fruitless Fig Tree

Click here for daily readings A few years back, in one of his homilies, my pastor made a point concerning vice and virtue. Although I don’t recall the exact words he used, the gist of the message was this: vice, by its nat...

Oct 25 2019

Read the Signs and Act

Click here for daily readings Bonus Post! Jesus has some pretty strong words for us in today’s readings. This whole week, it seems Luke is full of the types of readings that we would rather skim over and get on to somethin...

Oct 25 2019

Body Bad, Spirit Good

Click here for daily readings The body is bad, and the spirit is good is the battle cry of a common heresy that I think is still making the rounds today; it is the heresy of Gnosticism. This is essentially the belief that all ma...