Category Archives: Catholic

May 16 2022

Whoever Follows God’s Commands Loves Him

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, Jesus told His disciples: “Whoever has My commandments and observes them is the one who loves Me. Whoever loves Me will be loved by my Father, and I will love h...

May 15 2022

He Makes All Things New

Click here for daily readings The Scripture readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter this year are jam-packed with so many great things. I feel as though we should celebrate this day and these words joyfully. In fact, I pl...

May 14 2022

I Call You My Friends, Abide In My Love

Click here for daily readings In this Gospel passage, Jesus invites us to a personal relationship with Him by abiding in His love. And how do we abide in His love? By keeping His commandments, which, as St. John explains...

May 13 2022

The Way To Our Forever Home

Click here for daily readings Remember your last big trip? Traveling takes a lot of mental and physical energy. There is the journey itself, of course – the map and the means of moving and the money. There is also t...

May 12 2022

Becoming Part of The Story

Click here for daily readings In today’s First Reading, St. Paul recounts a short history of God’s chosen people. St. Paul knew that telling this story to the Jewish people in the synagogue would help them to ...

May 11 2022

Our Supra-Reasonable Faith

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel seems to unfold in a beautiful two-part symphony with the doctrine of the Trinity being the prologue and relationship with the Trinity being the crescendo. Beginning w...

May 10 2022

The Secure Situation Of Sheep

Click here for daily readings The “powers that be” keep the pressure on Jesus, trying to ensnare him with questions, catch him in an act for which they can condemn him as a fraud or blasphemer, and taunting h...

May 09 2022

I Know My Sheep

Click here for daily readings Our practice is to attend 8:30 Sunday Mass but sometimes that doesn’t work out. One Monday after such a time, I ran into my priest and he asked where we were the preceding day. “I...

May 08 2022

Being a Light to Others

Click here for daily readings Do you ever feel like you are in a time of plenty, but simultaneously in a time of drought? We are in the midst of the Easter season, flowers are blooming, the sun is shining, the school year...

May 07 2022

The Holy One of God

Click here for daily readings The month of May holds much joy in our society. Spring is finally erupting in colors and new life in the majority of the USA. First communions, graduations, baptisms and weddings are being he...

May 06 2022

Child of God

Click here for daily readings My wife, Nathalie, and I welcomed our first child, Gabriel Michael Shultz, into the world on April 4th. As I write this we are in the throes of Gabe finding his personality, watching him g...

May 05 2022

Flesh for the World

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel we hear part of what is commonly referred to as Jesus’ Bread of Life discourse. The imagery Jesus presents is powerful and His words form the foundation of our E...

May 04 2022

Finding the Fullness of Faith

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel reading is from the beginning of Jesus’ Bread of Life discourse. As we will see in the Gospel readings over the next few days, Jesus makes it more and more explicit...

May 03 2022

The Face of the Father

Click here for daily readings Before Jesus offered Himself to be a sacrifice, He spent time emphasizing with his last teachings what He really wanted us to remember. Anyone who has experienced what it is like to hand responsi...

May 02 2022

Turning our Attention to Jesus

Click here for daily readings I recently read an essay by Simone Weil about the relationship between academic study and our love of God. She wrote the essay in the early 20th century to encourage eighth graders in their s...

May 01 2022

Worthy is the Lamb That Was Slain

Click here for daily readings “To the one who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor, glory and might, forever and ever.” We owe all we have, our dear souls, to Jesus Christ. As examples of ...

Apr 30 2022

I’m Tired of Storms

Click here for daily readings I must admit that I am tired of storms. I’m worn out trying to find my life story—my Covid pandemic life story—reflected in the apostles’ experience of storms at sea.&...

Apr 29 2022

The Soul’s Surrender

Click here for daily readings “So let your heart hold back no longer. Let the city of your soul surrender–for Christ has set fire everywhere, and there is nowhere you can turn, physically or spiritually, witho...

Apr 28 2022

Obey God’s Laws, Not Man’s

Click here for daily readings In today’s First Reading, we see Peter and the Apostle’s response when they are brought before the Sanhedrin, who had warned them to stop teaching in Jesus’ name. They said:...

Apr 27 2022

Fear Is Not From God

Click here for daily readings I can still remember clearly after St. John Paul II became Pope, he said, “Be not afraid”. It has remained with me to this day. In today’s reading from Acts, Jesus tells Paul in...