Category Archives: Catholic

Feb 24 2022

Salt and Sin as Synonyms

Click here for daily readings When someone says winter to me I think of snow as I’ve lived in the midwest most of my life. Indiana, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Michigan collectively average thirty eight inches of snow, ...

Feb 23 2022

Memento Mori – Remember That You Will Die

Click here for daily reading We hear a strange reprimand from St. James today: “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a pr...

Feb 22 2022

Living Witnesses

Click here for daily readings The Catholic world has been rocked in recent years by many scandals committed by those ordained to serve their flock. Creating a sort of no-win scenario, conversations tend to balance betwee...

Feb 21 2022

Fidelity Helps My Unbelief

Click here for daily readings Often my prayer resembles the words spoken by the boy’s father in Mark’s Gospel, who has come to beg the Lord to heal his son, “But if you can do anything, have compassion o...

Feb 20 2022

The Collapse Of The Open Heart

Click here for daily readings Jesus sometimes used hyperbole to get his listeners’ ears open; he talked about plucking out eyes or chopping off hands, which he certainly did not mean literally (he only meant that o...

Feb 19 2022

You are God’s divinely-loved-ones

Click here for daily readings The word that leaped from the page of my Missal this morning was the word “Beloved.” When Jesus is transfigured on the mountain before the three apostles Peter, James, and John, t...

Feb 18 2022

Whoever Is Ashamed Of Me

Click here for daily readings Being ashamed of someone implies a familial relationship, a deep level of caring. We can get mad at people in whom we have no emotional investment. Being ashamed is reserved for t...

Feb 17 2022

How God Thinks

Click here for daily readings When I think of the most relatable person in the Bible, Peter is often the first to come to mind. He messes up. A lot. The event we hear of in the Gospel is one of those times. Rather than em...

Feb 16 2022

Stop Deluding Yourself

Click here for daily readings The Letter of James is short and to the point on how we are to behave. There are points made about anger, the word of God and action. However, as I read it, I came to see that it is about lis...

Feb 15 2022

God’s Perfect Gifts

Click here for daily readings I once heard a talk relating motherhood to the Eucharist. Just as Christ gives himself totally to us in the form of bread, a mother gives herself totally to her child(ren). As I layed there n...

Feb 14 2022

Consider It All Joy

Click here for daily readings Happy Valentine’s Day! Suffice to say, my blog today is not about Valentine’s Day. I really did want it to be related in some way, but as of late, I have been struggling wit...

Feb 13 2022

The Beauty of the Beatitudes

Click here for daily readings “Behold, your reward will be great in heaven.” “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours. Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied...

Feb 12 2022

A Heart That Beats With Love For Us

Click here for daily readings Have you ever been so hungry that you were in danger of collapsing? Jesus is not usually prone to hyperbole, so his comment here seems factual: if he sends the crowd that has been foll...

Feb 11 2022

Be Opened!

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, Mark tells the story of Jesus healing the man who was deaf and had a speech impediment. Jesus put His fingers in the man’s ear, put spit on his tongue, and look...

Feb 10 2022

Escape

Click here for daily readings I think it is good for us to see Jesus in this moment. Jesus, fully God, is also fully human. We see Jesus experience the full range of human emotions in the Gospels. Jesus weeping for Lazaru...

Feb 09 2022

The Cultivation of Interior Devotion

Click here for daily readings The parable Christ tells in today’s Gospel would have been difficult for the people of His time. There were strict laws on what constituted clean food and unclean food but now Jesus is ...

Feb 08 2022

Far From Him

Click here for daily readings Today we have the classic verse that people sometimes use to say that Jesus doesn’t care about the law as long as you are a good person. Of course, this couldn’t be further from ...

Feb 07 2022

Verdant

Click here for daily readings There is a lot to unpack in the 4 sentences that make up today’s Gospel. The word verdant has stayed with me throughout my prayer, reflection and study. During my reflection there were ...

Feb 06 2022

United in the Mass, Today’s Fishers of Men

Click here for daily readings In today’s First Reading from Isaiah, we hear something similar to that said in the Mass: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts! All the earth is filled with his glory!” I...

Feb 05 2022

Jesus, Our Teacher

Click here for daily readings Today’s Responsorial Psalm is taken from Psalm 119 which repeatedly mentions the commands of God, the statutes of God, the Word of God. So often we want to have God in our lives, but we...