Category Archives: Catholic

May 22 2019

St Rita: Teacher of Forgiveness

Click here for daily readings “Let me, my Jesus share in Thy suffering, at least one of Thy thorns.” – Saint Rita of Cascia Jesus’ words in today’s gospel seem near impossible for any regular man to...

May 21 2019

Our Father

Click here for daily readings For the past week, and up until just a couple days before Pentecost, the Gospel readings for daily Mass are from John’s recounting of the Last Supper. Here Jesus repeatedly speaks about, and p...

May 20 2019

Life’s Experiences Teach Us To Live

Click here for daily readings As I worked on processing bulletins this past week, I noticed how many churches had chosen one of our covers illustrating a trifecta of celebrations. World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Good Shepherd...

May 19 2019

Love One Another

Click here for daily readings Perhaps the most quoted Gospel of all time shot off the page to me with new meaning as I sat in Mass on Saturday evening. We have all heard, love one another; that’s like the basics. Have you ...

May 18 2019

How Love Changes Everything

Click here for daily readings Love. We sing about it, talk about it, aspire to it, even are blessed enough to experience it. People do both intensely beautiful and amazingly wicked things for love. It can be the most selfless an...

May 17 2019

Where’s My Map?

Click here for daily readings When I was twenty, I knew exactly what the rest of my life would look like. I had it all mapped out. I’d created goals and lists for the steps it would take to attain them. And now, decades la...

May 16 2019

Foundations

Click here for daily readings As humans, we like to categorize everything we can, right down to our life stages. There are the categories of childhood and adulthood, but even within these two categories, we break them down even ...

May 15 2019

A Martyr for the Anxious

Click here for daily readings “Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.” -St. Francis de Sales Today is the feast day of St. Dymphna, the...

May 14 2019

Abiding in Love: God’s Work, God’s Way

Click here for daily readings Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Matthias, a disciple who had followed Jesus from the beginning of his ministry all the way to the Ascension. The Apostles understood their role representing the 1...

May 13 2019

Our Lady of Fatima

Click here for daily readings Today, the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, 3 people will make their initial Consecration to Jesus through Mary in our parish. We have spent the last 33 days “on retreat” as we have read, po...

May 12 2019

Do You Know The Shepherd?

Click here for daily readings I recently returned from a trip to Ireland. It was a wonderful trip up the East coast of the country, across the top and back down the West coast. Our tour started in Belfast and ended in Dublin. If...

May 11 2019

Does this Shock You?

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, we hear Jesus giving one of the hardest teachings in the bible. He is explaining the teaching of the Eucharist, that bread and wine really are turned into his body and blood...

May 10 2019

Encountering the Risen Lord

Click here for daily readings I embarrassingly just did a happy dance in my chair as I write this blog publically in my local coffee shop. Why am I embarrassing myself? Because today’s readings are epic and I am SO excited...

May 09 2019

They Shall all be Taught by God

Click here for daily readings The readings today have a common theme: teaching. It is also teacher appreciation week in the United States (world teacher’s day is October 5th). Coincidence or work of the Holy Spirit? My lif...

May 08 2019

Food for the Journey

Click here for daily readings In today’s gospel reading, Jesus continues his bread of life discourse where he tells his followers that without the bread of life he speaks of, we have no life. Jesus promises that those who ...

May 07 2019

Taking the Tough Stuff

Click here for daily readings Martyr (n.): A person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle or cause. This is one of the many definitions I found on dictionary.com. Today’s first ...

May 06 2019

It’s Never Enough

Click here for daily readings Nearly three years ago, I was preparing to go to my first World Youth Day pilgrimage. I was excited but saw it more as a vacation than anything. At that point, I had begun losing faith and was barg...

May 05 2019

Abundance

Click here for daily readings Faith- what’s the first thing that pops into your mind when I say that word. Faith! How about Church? What’s the first thing you think of? How about rules? What comes to mind then? We a...

May 04 2019

Trust in Him

Click here for daily readings Have you ever had the little voice in your head tell you it’s time to change a certain situation, yet you hesitate or are too busy to do anything about it? Then, the next time something simi...

May 03 2019

A Believers Work

Click here for daily readings In Today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that He is the way, the truth, and the life. It is here that He shares the intimacy between Himself and God the Father. He states multiple times that He and ...