Category Archives: Catholic

Jun 14 2019

An Antithesis of Ideas

Click here for daily readings An antithesis is a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by a connection of meaning through a connection of form. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus stands everyt...

Jun 13 2019

Faith and Charity

Click here for daily readings Today is the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, priest and doctor of the Church. While we know him as St. Anthony of Padua, he is from Lisbon, Portugal. Lisbon, understandably, takes great pride in bei...

Jun 12 2019

What Makes for Greatness? Who is the Greatest?

Click here for daily readings These are questions people ask all the time because there is in each of us the desire to matter. We want to know that what we do and who we are is important and meaningful. Our deepest so...

Jun 11 2019

A Thousand Points of Light

Click here for daily readings Does anyone remember this quote from President George H.W. Bush: “For we are a nation of communities, of thousands and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, n...

Jun 10 2019

Our Mother

Click here for daily readings In February of last year, Pope Francis gave the Church a new feast day. The day after Pentecost every year is now the memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. Cardinal Robert Sara...

Jun 08 2019

One and Two

Click here for daily readings Peter and John. The rock and the beloved disciple. The first Bishop of Rome and the one whom Jesus loved. Today’s Gospel reading is really intriguing with these two apostles. Intriguing but a...

Jun 07 2019

Losing Control

Click here for daily readings Last weekend, I was driving on the highway when a single line of a random, shuffled playlist song caught my attention. The female voice sang, “Yes, I know I’ve lost what you call contro...

Jun 06 2019

They Also May Be In Us

Click here for daily readings The Gospel Readings for today allows us to see intimately into the relationship Jesus had with His Father. It is within this prayer that we are revealed the beauty, intimacy, and trust of their lov...

Jun 05 2019

Dissecting a Passage from Paul

Click here for daily readings In today’s first reading Paul says, “Keep watch over yourselves and the over the whole flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers”. I would like to dissect this pa...

Jun 04 2019

The Order That Should Have Failed

Click here for daily readings Today’s gospel recounts the final moments before Jesus’ arrest in John’s gospel. He offered up his approaching crucifixion and pleads God the Father for the preservation of his di...

Jun 03 2019

Come Holy Spirit

Click here for daily readings “Behold, the hour is coming and has arrived when each of you will be scattered to his own home and you will leave me alone. But I am not alone, because the Father is with me. I have told you ...

Jun 01 2019

Whatever We Ask?

Click here for daily readings Jesus says something amazing in today’s Gospel, something we may think is unbelievable: “Whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.” Really? Our experience of prayer...

May 31 2019

The Joy of a Pup

Click here for daily readings “When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, ‘Most blessed are you among w...

May 30 2019

Presence Matters

Click here for daily readings I have a 4-year-old at home who is suffering from what I call “accompaniment syndrome”. It may be a form of separation anxiety, or maybe he’s just a momma’s boy but it sure ...

May 29 2019

Evangelization 101

Click here for daily readings Evangelization seems to be a “buzz word” in the faith. Everyone’s heard it. A lot of people seem to be talking about it. We all know it’s part of our Catholic vocation, some...

May 28 2019

Listen to the Mourning Dove

Click here for daily readings Most mornings, I awake to the sound of mourning doves on my deck rail. They come around several times a day. Their mournful cooing sound is soothing and relaxing to me. But I have to admit that som...

May 27 2019

The Way, The Truth, The Life

Click here for daily readings “Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.” -Pope Paul VI “The Spirit of truth will te...

May 25 2019

Seek What Is Above

Click here for daily readings Today is my wedding day so the readings I hear at Mass will be different than the ones heard at a normal Saturday Mass. I chose this day on purpose because, in looking at the readings I thought to ...

May 24 2019

This I Command You: Love One Another

Click here for daily readings This last year has seen the cycle of life continue: life, suffering, death, rebirth, rebuild. I shouldn’t expect it to be any different than other years, but it has been more intense for me an...

May 23 2019

Joy

Click here for daily readings When I was in elementary school, I was a part of a Catholic small group called K4J, otherwise known as Kids for Jesus. Each meeting, we would go through a specific virtue or spiritual gift’s p...