Category Archives: Catholic

Jan 11 2022

It Is All About Relationship

Click here for daily readings Today is a very special day for me. It is my wife and my anniversary! We have been married for two years and her companionship has made the struggles of the past two years joyful. In Scripture, t...

Jan 10 2022

God is God

Click here for daily readings The Responsorial Psalm at Mass today reminds us that “a sacrifice of praise” is integral to the worship of God. In Psalm 116, the speaker is praising God particularly becaus...

Jan 09 2022

You Are God’s Beloved Child

Click here for daily readings While admiring photos of a friend’s daughter I thought that how she feels – the pride, love, and joy – is how God feels about us. Our love for our own children is mirr...

Jan 08 2022

Pray and Live with Confidence

Click here for daily readings What hope we hear in the readings today! In the First Reading, John encourages us to pray confidently because we have assurance of eternal life. But is it really that easy? In whom is o...

Jan 07 2022

Be Made Clean

Click here for daily readings There have been some changes the last couple of days at work. I’m sitting in a different part of the building that has windows with an outside view (wooHoo). Making a space clean that h...

Jan 06 2022

God is Love

Click here for daily readings What is love? This question seems to echo through the halls of human history as strongly as the question asked of Jesus by Pilate, “What is truth?” Of course, the answer to both ...

Jan 05 2022

The Twelfth Night

Click here for daily readings The twelfth night, the evening of January fifth, has marked the end of the Christmas season since the Middle Ages. There are many who believe and just as many who think the Catholic mea...

Jan 04 2022

We Need Christ as Our Shepherd

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel reading tells the story of Jesus preaching to the masses and multiplying the loaves and fish. It begins: “When Jesus saw the vast crowd, His heart was moved with pi...

Jan 03 2022

Transformative Repentance

Click here for daily readings “From that time on, Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17). Mercy offered in the Sacrament of Reconciliation is transfo...

Jan 02 2022

A Resolution to Make Haste Slowly

Click here for daily readings Happy New Year! By now, you have likely considered a new year’s resolution and maybe even tried a few. If I’m honest, I have a long history of falling headfirst off the new ...

Jan 01 2022

The Clock of Salvation

Click here for daily readings Welcome to 2022!!! Likely you are exhausted from staying up late to celebrate a new year with your friends and family. This day always brings to mind resolutions, diet programs, calendars, t...

Dec 31 2021

In 2022 God Will Never Stop Loving You

Click here for daily readings Today we stand on the threshold of 2022, breathing a sigh of relief that we are another few months through the general crisis that the world is collectively living. …the li...

Dec 30 2021

Turning Ourselves Toward God

Click here for daily readings I hope that your Christmas season is full of joy! As I read today’s readings, I was struck by the last verses in both the First Reading and the Gospel. They both point to doing the will...

Dec 29 2021

Radiate Joy

Click here for daily readings In the First Reading today, John tells us: “Do not love the world or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. . . . The world ...

Dec 28 2021

The Martyrdom of the Holy Innocents

Click here for daily readings Today, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, we remember the massacre of young boys in Bethlehem by King Herod the Great in the time of Jesus. Herod orders the death of innocent children out of...

Dec 27 2021

Can We Do This?

Click here for daily readings What a great day! It is the feast of John the Evangelist. John’s passion for the Lord is what I call “all in”. He gave his whole self to the Lord Jesus. In the First Reading, Jo...

Dec 26 2021

What Once Was Lost

Click here for daily readings The parish where I grew up, where I made all my sacraments and where I first became a youth minister is called Holy Family Church. So, for the longest time, this Sunday’s celebration was my ...

Dec 25 2021

The Grace of Christmas

Click here for daily readings Christmas morning, we wake to gifts under the tree, gifts nestled into stockings, and the celebration of the greatest gift of all—Jesus. God’s gifts are abundant; there is no spen...

Dec 24 2021

Jesus is Born!

Click here for daily readings In preparing for Christmas in Italy, a family will assemble an intricate, detailed Nativity Scene called a presepe. This custom was started by our beloved St. Francis of Assisi on Chris...

Dec 23 2021

Walking With Zechariah Through His Personal Advent

Click here for daily readings We are two days away from Christmas. Are you getting antsy for the arrival of Jesus, for visits with family and opening presents? I am, but I’m trying to slow down and savor this litur...