Category Archives: Catholic

Apr 28 2019

Faith in His Mercy

Click here for daily readings Today is one of my favorite days in the liturgical calendar, Divine Mercy Sunday, and the readings paint a beautiful picture for how we should receive the mercy of God. These readings are largely b...

Apr 27 2019

You Better Recognize

Click here for daily readings Jesus must have been unrecognizable after he rose from the dead. Two-thousand years later, we find it difficult to recognize him in anything other than on a crucifix. People stood right in front of...

Apr 26 2019

Christ Our Light

Click here for daily readings We are in the Octave of Easter – the eight days following Easter, leading up to the First Sunday of Easter. All week we sing/pray the Gospel Alleluia verse: “This is the day the Lord ha...

Apr 25 2019

In The Moment

Click here for daily readings Christ is risen, alleluia, alleluia! Often times, Catholics and Christians alike forget that Easter is a whole liturgical season spanning 50 days and not just the one solitary Sunday. As we continu...

Apr 24 2019

Finding Jesus in our Neighbor

Click here for daily readings In today’s Scripture readings, we are reminded of the fact that Jesus Christ is alive and working. Our First Reading in the Acts of the Apostles speaks of the Spirit of Christ working through...

Apr 23 2019

Beautifully Absurd

Click here for daily readings My dad is a pretty big Beatles fan. And like most fans who follow a music group closely, he never requests the hits like “Hey Jude” or “Let It Be” because they have been play...

Apr 22 2019

Fearful Yet Overjoyed

Click here for daily readings Think back on a moment of life where everything changed. One of those crystal moments, where you know things will never be the same. Think of that moment when something you had been looking forward ...

Apr 21 2019

Love Revealed and Made Real

Click here for daily readings I have been writing a lot about marriage in my posts recently, partly because I was recently married and the realities and beauties of marriage are fresh in my mind and experience, but also because ...

Apr 20 2019

Joyful Anticipation

Click here for daily readings Tonight is the greatest night of the whole year. The chains of sin and death are broken, the grave is opened. That dark midnight hour is filled with the light of this wonderful reality, Christ is Ri...

Apr 19 2019

Perfect Love

Click here for daily readings “Christ became obedient to the point of death, Even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him And bestowed on him the name which is above every other name.” As a little ...

Apr 18 2019

The Triduum Begins

Click here for daily readings Today we enter into three of the most beautiful days of the liturgical year: the Triduum. During these three days, the regular rhythm of the liturgy – our daily Mass times – are disrupte...

Apr 17 2019

Be Better

Click here for daily readings We are in the middle of Holy Week, people! Less than a week until Easter! Less than a week until we commemorate the greatest gift of all! Is your soul refreshed? Are your hopes and desires getting y...

Apr 16 2019

Will You Also Betray Me?

Click here for daily readings Recently, I read a quote that states, “Christianity isn’t as much about getting to Heaven as it is allowing Heaven to get inside of you.” In our Scripture readings today, we hear h...

Apr 15 2019

Avoiding Hypocrisy during Holy Week

Click here for daily readings We are now in the midst of the most important week of the year. The entirety of Jesus’ life and mission leads to this week, which ends with him dying on the cross and rising from the dead. The...

Apr 14 2019

A Holy Procession

Click here for daily readings Yesterday my beautiful bride and I celebrated our 6 month anniversary of marriage. People say your wedding day goes by so fast that you are lucky to get a piece of your cake. This was certainly true...

Apr 13 2019

Lord, I Am Not Worthy

Click here for daily readings “So from that day on they planned to kill him” (John 11: 53). I have failed. I have betrayed my Lenten promises. I have neglected to follow through on carefully made plans. I have run f...

Apr 12 2019

Witness to the Gospel

Click here for daily readings As we approach Holy Week and the Passion of our Lord, the Gospels tell us more and more about the tensions that existed surrounding Jesus. In today’s Gospel, we hear that the Jews want to sto...

Apr 11 2019

The Final Leg

Click here for daily readings “So the Jews said to him, ‘You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.’&...

Apr 10 2019

The Face of Truth

Click here for daily readings Truth, noun, the property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality. Here we have a nice, neat, clinical definition of Truth. Something based in fact or reality. I’ve lived a...

Apr 09 2019

Be Strong and Vulnerable

Click here for daily readings This past week, I received some emails from readers that thanked me for sharing with y’all. I thanked them kindly and kind of brushed it off at first, but as I got a couple more, I realized ju...