Category Archives: Catholic

Feb 12 2019

Unwashed Hands, Unwashed Hair

Click here for daily readings One Christmas holiday several years ago, my oldest niece, a college student at the time, brought her boyfriend home to meet my parents, her grandparents. The first morning of their visit, Mark came ...

Feb 11 2019

Do Whatever He Tells You

Click here for daily readings Today, the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, when in 1858, the Blessed Mother appeared to a 14-year-old girl in Lourdes, France. Now, over 160 years later, millions of people trave...

Feb 09 2019

Our Good Shepherd

Click here for daily readings Today would have been my grandmother’s 85th birthday. She died 14 years ago when I was 10 but I still miss her fiercely every day. The first reading comes from the closing verses of Hebrews an...

Feb 08 2019

The Veil Between

Click here for daily readings Praying with today’s readings has me focusing on the letter from the Hebrews. Hospitality, prisoners, the ill-treated, married couples as well as the greedy, the immoral and adulterers–t...

Feb 07 2019

Go to Him

Click here for daily readings I found something extremely interesting in today’s Gospel. The first line says that Jesus summoned his disciples and then sent them out. A lot of the time, we may feel that we are being asked ...

Feb 06 2019

The Struggle is Real

Click here for daily readings Trying to write this post, the struggle is real. I’ve sat down to these readings and this Google Doc three, four, five times already and still find myself struggling to find the right words. T...

Feb 05 2019

Talitha Koum

Click here for daily readings “He took the child by the hand and said to her, ‘Talitha koum,’ which means, ‘Little girl, I say to you, arise!’ The girl, a child of twelve, arose immediately an...

Feb 04 2019

What Have You to do with Me?

Click here for daily readings There are 3 retellings of today’s Gospel; Matthew 8:28-34, Luke 8:26-39 and today’s reading, Mark 5:1-20. Nothing in the Bible is repeated without a purpose. Summarizing the three...

Feb 02 2019

Purified in Unity

Click here for daily readings Growing in faith can be pretty painful sometimes. Actually, it’s mostly painful. It’s not until we are transformed that we see why choosing to suffer with and for Christ is, in fact, the...

Feb 01 2019

As They Were Able to Understand it- Patience and Trust

Click here for daily readings Jesus often turns our human understanding on its head, as a reminder that God’s ways are far from our ways, and that reality resides far below superficial appearances. Grownups must become lik...

Jan 31 2019

Persecution- A Price Worth Paying

Click here for daily readings Three brightly colored threads have woven their way into my spiritual life in this past month. First thread. Persecution. News reports that Chinese Christians are bracing themselves for persecution....

Jan 30 2019

Sow What?

Click here for daily readings I recently reached the final page of a long, good book. I turned the back cover over and placed it on the coffee table with an overwhelming sense of accomplishment. As I returned it to its place on ...

Jan 29 2019

Family Tree

Click here for daily readings “Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.” -Anonymous Today’s Gospel, once again, gives us the picture of Jesus preaching...

Jan 28 2019

A Kingdom United

Click here for daily readings Both the reading from Hebrews and today’s Gospel deal with God’s judgment and the salvation of souls. In the first reading, we hear of Christ’s new covenant with mankind, that we n...

Jan 27 2019

The Mass as Fulfillment of the Scriptures

Click here for daily readings There are many different angles one could go with the rich symbolism in all three of today’s beautiful readings. The first reading is a clear call to the importance of physical actions to be t...

Jan 26 2019

You Are in Good Company

Click here for daily readings Has anyone ever told you that you’re crazy or out of your mind? You are in good company. Today’s gospel is two very short lines. In the second line, Jesus’ family said of him, &ldq...

Jan 25 2019

What Most People Miss About Life’s Journey

Click here for daily readings I need to admit to you that I was thinking about this Gospel commentary on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany. The month of January opens with the wise men making their way to the manger to offer ...

Jan 24 2019

God Wants Us to Suffer, A Pious Heresy

Click here for daily readings When I teach junior high classes about creation I usually draw a large circle on the whiteboard. I tell my class that this represents everything God created and I ask them to shout out the things th...

Jan 23 2019

In the Line of Melchizedek

Click here for daily readings Melchizedek. I admit that I signed up for this day so I could learn more about Melchizedek. It’s a technique I’ve been using since college. It forces me to learn new things and go out of...

Jan 19 2019

Living and Effective

Click here for daily readings As I write, I am in the midst of difficulties on both sides of the family. Granted, I come from a large family and my husband’s family has lived through many trials, but sometimes I want to th...