Category Archives: Catholic

Sep 11 2019

Recognize- Then Count- Your Blessings

Click here for daily readings I chose this specific date for a reason. For several reasons, really. Can anyone live September 11th each year without recounting the events of the Twin Towers? Today is also my Father’s bir...

Sep 10 2019

Walking Closely with Christ

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, we hear who Jesus named the Twelve Apostles. After calling them, they were surrounded by a great crowd of people. People from all of Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal re...

Sep 09 2019

For the Sake of Suffering

Click here for daily readings As I read through today’s readings in preparation for this post, one phrase hit me like a ton of bricks. Redemptive suffering. It’s a phrase you’ve probably heard before but mayb...

Sep 07 2019

Staying out of the Ditches

Click here for daily readings What’s with the Pharisees? Haven’t they learned by now that they couldn’t win an argument with this wandering rabbi, Jesus of Nazareth? Still, they continue to challenge him and ...

Sep 06 2019

The Changing Seasons

Click here for daily readings The changing of seasons is always so bittersweet. Beach season turns into orchard season. Shorts are exchanged for pants. Evenings and mornings turn cool, and if they hit the 50’s, you might...

Sep 05 2019

A Drop in the Ocean

Click here for daily readings “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” –St. Teresa of Calcutta Today we celebrate the f...

Sep 04 2019

Purpose, Focus, Direction

Click here for daily readings I love the Gospel reading today because it shows the unmatched power of Jesus as the son of God while at the same time showing his incredible focus for the end goal. Purpose-focus-direction. These...

Sep 03 2019

Transformed for Good

Click here for daily readings Today is the birthday of my best friend, my love, my husband. I picked this day to write a reflection for a few reasons – one of the reasons being to dedicate this to my husband, but also to...

Sep 02 2019

Labor Day

Click here for daily readings Today is the 125th time the United States of America celebrates this national holiday. “Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the ...

Aug 31 2019

Good and Faithful Servant

Click here for daily readings “Well done, my good and faithful servant.” “You wicked, lazy servant.” Secretly I hope one day to hear the first sentence addressed to me by God and not the second. An...

Aug 30 2019

What: Me, Holy?

Click here for daily readings For a very long time, I thought I might have a vocation to the religious life. It turned out that I didn’t, but I gave the possibility a lot of time and thought and prayer. My everyday life ...

Aug 29 2019

True Freedom

Click here for daily readings Today is the Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist. The Gospel recounts the story of this event, and in it, there are two men, King Herod, and John the Baptist, one of them imprisoned an...

Aug 28 2019

Feast of St. Augustine

Click here for daily readings My friends, today on the memorial of St Augustine, the Church has given us readings in the Liturgy and in the Office of Readings that focus on the amazing attraction of Jesus on our souls. St Paul...

Aug 26 2019

Be Delighted

Click here for daily readings The Lord delights in you. Let that sink in for a moment. The Lord DELIGHTS in you. The Lord delights in YOU. Today, I invite us to reflect on the responsorial psalm and the way we can emphasize the...

Aug 24 2019

Come and See

Click here for daily readings I love the sweet simplicity of today’s Gospel. Philip was looking for Nathanel and as he finds him, shares that one whom the Jews were waiting for is here, Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth....

Aug 23 2019

A Blueprint for Love

Click here for daily readings “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your...

Aug 22 2019

An Invitation of Love

Click here for daily readings I have written about this before, but I absolutely love when God’s love for us is described with marital imagery. As most of you know, having been recently married, it is a time in my life wh...

Aug 21 2019

A Joyful Celebration

Click here for daily readings Are you someone that gets to Sunday Mass ten to fifteen minutes early? Are you someone that seems to make it right on time? Or are you always running late, getting there after Mass has already star...

Aug 20 2019

Seasons of Hardship

Click here for daily readings Have you ever gone through a period of great suffering in your life, a time when you felt like enough was enough and just couldn’t go on? I mean, how many things can snowball into a stark rea...

Aug 19 2019

Fulfilled Hearts

Click here for daily readings As a young adult, I recognize myself in the young man that we read about in today’s Gospel. We want to know the rules, the step-by-step instructions, the exact path to walk down for perfectio...