Category Archives: Catholic

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...

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...