Category Archives: Catholic

Sep 18 2021

Open My Heart

Click here for daily readings How can I open myself more to love? Love for others, in place of love for self. It is our natural instinct, after all, to follow our flawed nature of sinfulness. Day after day I know I strug...

Sep 17 2021

Poor in Spirit

Click here for daily readings “Like billowing clouds, like the incessant gurgling of the brook, the longing of the spirit can never be stilled”. (St. Hildegard of Bingen) I love this group of readings! Especia...

Sep 16 2021

Let Us Adore Him, Christ the Lord

Click here for daily readings The Gospel reading today is powerful and touching. A sinful woman, recognizing her sinfulness, ministers to Jesus by washing his feet with her tears, drying them with her hair, anointing the...

Sep 15 2021

The Extra Button

Click here for daily readings Today, during my morning prayers, the thought of the “extra button” on shirts kept popping into my head. Then, while reading the Gospel, I had this epiphany moment of the extra bu...

Sep 14 2021

Exaltation Of The Holy Cross

Click here for daily readings True story: the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine, St. Helena, went to Jerusalem in search of the actual places in Jesus’ life. In the process, she had the Temple of Aphrodite to...

Sep 13 2021

What It Means To Be A Centurion

Click here for daily readings The Catholic grade school I attended had a bit of an unusual nickname: the Centurion. As a young child, I didn’t understand the significance of such a nickname. (It didn’t get much eas...

Sep 12 2021

Convicted

Click here for daily readings “If you were accused of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?” I have often considered this question since I first heard it many years ago. Some...

Sep 11 2021

Producing Good

Click here for daily readings In the Gospel reading today, we hear a very fitting line for 9/11: “A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil prod...

Sep 10 2021

In Training

Click here for daily readings I remember as a child thinking to myself whenever I heard this reading, “Someday, I’ll be just like my mom and dad and be able to make my own decisions. They won’t be able ...

Sep 09 2021

Reflect Love and Mercy

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings are full of instructions on how to live and love and be rewarded. St. Paul starts by giving us a list of virtues he invites us to “put on” and then cover th...

Sep 08 2021

The Birth of Our Mother

Click here for daily readings “Let everything, mundane things and those above, join in festive celebration. Today this created world is raised to the dignity of a holy place for him who made all things. The creature...

Sep 07 2021

This Or That?

Click here for daily readings When most of us are trying to make a decision, we focus on which option will bring us the most satisfaction. Will this make my life easier, help me feel better about myself, fit into my sche...

Sep 06 2021

Suffering for Christ

Click here for daily readings The First Reading today seems to make the bold claim that somehow the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus was not enough for the sins of mankind. Of course, this is not what St. Paul...

Sep 05 2021

Affliction Can Open Our Hearts to God

Click here for daily readings In our readings today, we have something that doesn’t happen every day: there is a clear theme running through all three readings and the Psalm. Each reading, in its own way, shows how ...

Sep 05 2021

Affliction Can Open Our Hearts to God

Click here for daily readings In our readings today, we have something that doesn’t happen every day: there is a clear theme running through all three readings and the Psalm. Each reading, in its own way, shows how ...

Sep 04 2021

God Must Come First

Click here for daily readings The First Reading for today is from Colossians, and it’s just one sentence long. But it’s a powerful and thought-provoking sentence. In part, it reads: “You once were aliena...

Sep 04 2021

God Must Come First

Click here for daily readings The First Reading for today is from Colossians, and it’s just one sentence long. But it’s a powerful and thought-provoking sentence. In part, it reads: “You once were aliena...

Sep 03 2021

Light of Life

Click here for daily readings Today is the memorial of Pope Saint Gregory the Great, and a doctor of the Church. I usually make a point of doing some research about the saint(s) of the day before beginning any writing, an...

Sep 02 2021

Being Present

Click here for daily readings Sometimes when I am reading through Scripture, a passage tends to fly off the page as if God printed it on a spiritual two by four and whacked me with it. That was certainly the case with th...

Sep 02 2021

Being Present

Click here for daily readings Sometimes when I am reading through Scripture, a passage tends to fly off the page as if God printed it on a spiritual two by four and whacked me with it. That was certainly the case with th...