Category Archives: Catholic

Jan 02 2021

A New You

Click here for daily readings A new year, a new you. If 2021 is not going to be the biggest seller of self help books, dieting fads, and new years resolutions, then the world has lost out on a huge opportunity. I think 2...

Jan 01 2021

We Are Blessed

Click here for daily readings Looking back at 2020, it is easy to say with disgust that it was a terrible year. No doubt about it. In a sense, yes, it was terrible, but it was also rich. Think of it this way. Miners don&rs...

Dec 31 2020

The Last Day. A Sacred Day.

Click here for daily readings 2020. The last day. A sacred day. A blessed memory of what has been, despite all, a year also blessed. The year when Jesus came. Comes. Will keep coming. Every day. Every hour. Every minute ...

Dec 30 2020

Admiring Anna

Click here for daily readings Who is this mysterious woman we hear about in today’s Gospel (and this past weekend’s Gospel, for that matter)? Anna only appears one time across all four Gospels, in thi...

Dec 29 2020

Joys and Sorrows

Click here for daily readings Becoming a parent is a profoundly meaningful, deeply moving, beautifully life-changing moment. It also opens up a whole vista of possibilities, uncertainties, and challenges. How will we pro...

Dec 28 2020

The Holy Innocents and Good St. Joseph

Click here for daily readings Today is my good friend’s birthday. We always used to joke with him about how he was so innocent because he was born on the feast of the Holy Innocents. He is actually a priest now, bu...

Dec 27 2020

Thoughts About My Father…

Click here for daily readings Christmas, when you come down to it, is about family. When we look into our nativities at Christmas time, we see a family. We live in a family. The Father has invited us into the heart of th...

Dec 26 2020

There’s Nothing to Worry About

Click here for daily reading “When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak but the S...

Dec 25 2020

The Word Became Flesh

Click here for daily readings “They found the infant lying in a manger.” These simple words from our Gospel today have a profound impact on our personal lives. When we think about Jesus becoming man, I think ...

Dec 24 2020

He Keeps His Promises

Click here for daily readings I love this Gospel reading today. I really love praying the Liturgy of the Hours, also called the Divine Office. There’s a reason why thousands of lips utter these same words as Zechari...

Dec 23 2020

A Catholic’s Guide to the End of the World

Click here for daily readings “But who will endure the day of His coming?” Are you prepared for The End? It’s during a year like 2020 when talk of the end of the world ramps up. People are stocking canne...

Dec 22 2020

Mary’s Magnificat

Click here for daily readings Mary’s Magnificat is one of the most well-known Scriptures. It is used in the Liturgy of the Hours for Morning Prayer every day. It appears as the Gospel reading more than once every s...

Dec 21 2020

Blessed are You

Click here for daily readings The Gospel scene today is very familiar. As Mary greets her cousin Elizabeth, the baby she carries jumps in her womb. Elizabeth shares that joyful experience with Mary, crying out blessings ...

Dec 20 2020

Handmaid of the Lord

Click here for daily readings I was recently part of a six-week journal group among mothers of my local parish. During our final session, I can recall two occurrences in particular that stood out to me. The first was tha...

Dec 19 2020

Faith and Reason

Click here for daily readings Today is Nathalie’s birthday so I would be remiss if I didn’t wish her a Happy Birthday up front. And it is fitting because today’s Gospel passage is all about birth. It&rs...

Dec 18 2020

Did You Dream?

Click here for daily readings “The Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.” Have you heard that Pope Francis declared this new Liturgical Year to be The Year of Saint Joseph? It’s true. A few month...

Dec 17 2020

Fiber and Flesh, and the O Antiphons

Click here for daily readings Each year the Church presents this genealogy of Jesus, which we can easily skim over when reading because the names do not hold much meaning for us. But this genealogy is significant because...

Dec 16 2020

We Are Children of the Light

Click here for daily readings I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume I’m not the only person pleased to be approaching the end of 2020. It’s been a year filled with pain, with uncertainty, with d...

Dec 15 2020

Worshipping Amid Oppression

Click here for daily readings Today’s First Reading about the oppressing city struck a chord in my heart. I sometimes feel like we are in a time of oppressing cities. During the lockdown essential businesses were al...

Dec 14 2020

The Crèche and the Cross

Click here for daily readings Just when we were getting settled into our new house and things were starting to settle down, another crisis. After so much work, so many hours, so much invested, and it all came crashing do...