Category Archives: Catholic

Jul 26 2021

Sts. Joachim and Anne, Parents of Mary, Friends Who Love You

Click here for daily readings I was thinking today how wonderful it would have been to live next door to Saints Joachim and Anne, listening to each other’s stories, crying and laughing with them. It would have been ...

Jul 25 2021

Hearing Anew

Click here for daily readings Spend any amount of time in the Scriptures or attending Mass, and you may be tempted to let your mind drift during the readings with the misleading rationale, “I’ve heard this all...

Jul 24 2021

That’s His Job

Click here for daily readings “To some God and Jesus may appeal in a way other than to us: some may come to faith in God and to love, without a conscious attachment to Jesus. Both nature and good men besides Jesus ...

Jul 23 2021

Good Soil

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel we hear Christ’s explanation of a parable that I’m sure we’re all familiar with: the Parable of the Sower. He explains that the four different ...

Jul 22 2021

Stay with Me

Click here for daily readings Mary stayed. There are some lines in Scripture that speak so much louder than their few words. When we read today’s Gospel slowly, we see it was a busy morning for Mary Magdalene.&nbsp...

Jul 21 2021

The Gift of Life

Click here for daily readings The mystery of human life is truly amazing. I can’t believe how my kids love to lay on my belly, rub it and give it kisses. They can’t wait for their little sister to come out! Ju...

Jul 20 2021

Stretch Out Your Hand

Click here for daily readings When I prepare to write my blog posts, I usually listen to an uplifting Christian song when or before I read the readings. I put my music on shuffle play and the song Confidence by Sanctus Real came...

Jul 19 2021

Harden Not Your Heart

Click here for daily readings The Gospel Acclamation today is what links the readings for me. ‘If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.’ Ps 95:8 In the First Reading, Pharaoh, the Egyptians and the...

Jul 18 2021

The Comfort of Letting God Lead Us

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings provide such comfort to our hurting world! Each of them provides a beautiful description of God’s loving, generous care. No matter what anyone has done to you to...

Jul 17 2021

Alive

Click here for daily readings “Are you alive in Christ?” There was a decently loud response from the crowd, a rumbling of “Yes.” Fr. Agustino Torres wasn’t satisfied with that response, thou...

Jul 16 2021

What Would Make You Sad?

Click here for daily readings I’ve been working with a client who is writing her memoir, and it’s got me thinking about the things we keep and the things we discard as we move through the different seasons of...

Jul 15 2021

True Rest

Click here for daily reading Today, the Lord tells us that He can give us true rest, beyond that which the world gives. Christ invites us to take His yoke upon us and learn from Him, but this claim is much more significan...

Jul 14 2021

An Attitude of Gratitude

Click here for daily readings It’s always interesting to hear the reactions when we have a period of cool days during our short Michigan summer. Some are in seventh heaven, pull out their sweat shirts, stoke the bon...

Jul 13 2021

Conversion and Courage

Click here for daily readings Today, we hear about one of the unsung women who is an absolute hero in the Bible. Think back to the situation that is described in today’s First Reading. During this time in Egypt, al...

Jul 12 2021

The Lord’s Help Amid the Nightmare

Click here for daily readings As I was sharing with my sister-in-law all that my son has been through, I told her this felt like the song that never ends. She responded, “more like the nightmare that never ends&rdqu...

Jul 11 2021

Our Smallness and God’s Strength

Click here for daily readings My kids’ bedtime stories consist of a good mix of library books, super hero conquests, animal adventures, outer space voyages and Bible stories. But about once a month, they pull out th...

Jul 10 2021

Proclaim His Wondrous Deeds

Click here for daily readings To proclaim something, we have to know it. To know something, we need to give it our attention. Recently, I was asked how God was working in my life. And I went blank. I mean, absolute...

Jul 09 2021

Laughter

Click here for daily readings Today my coworker led our morning prayer and ended with, “Father, all I ask is that we find ourselves laughing today. I ask for nothing more than the beautiful gift of laughter.” ...

Jul 08 2021

What You Have Received

Click here for daily readings There are so many places to launch a reflection from in today’s Gospel. Jesus’ sending of the disciples is full of vivid imagery and specific instructions on how, where and why t...

Jul 07 2021

Chosen and Sent

Click here for daily readings I was on the edge of my Kindergarten seat, hoping to be called by the teacher to run the weekly errand of taking the attendance sheet to the Principal’s Office (which was practically n...