Category Archives: Catholic

Dec 13 2020

The Coming of the Bridegroom

Click here for daily readings Gaudate Sunday marks the halfway point of the Advent season. With the church and priest decked out in the color rose, the Church makes the shift from the second coming of Christ at the end of...

Dec 12 2020

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Click here for daily readings “Mary, make me love your Son Jesus as the Principle behind all things, not with a fear that paralyzes and discourages, but with a love that knows no limits. ~ Blessed Concepci&oa...

Dec 11 2020

Light of Life

Click here for daily readings It is dark as I leave home for 7:15am Mass. The sun will be setting as I leave work to go back home this evening. Without the aid of my headlights it is hard for me to really see what ...

Dec 10 2020

Listen and Heed His Help

Click here for daily readings “Whoever has ears ought to hear.” What aren’t we hearing, then? So often we miss the memo, miss the message – whether from the Lord or from others in our own life. Why...

Dec 09 2020

Come To Me

Click here for daily readings “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” Today’s First Reading is very short—so short it could be easy to dismiss or overlook. This ...

Dec 08 2020

Eve Said No – Mary Said Yes

Click here for daily readings Eve and Mary were similar in a lot of ways. They were both created without sin. They were both daughters of covenants, under which they pledged obedience. They were both visited by a supernat...

Dec 07 2020

The Way of the Redeemed

Click here for daily readings Both readings today could provoke us to ask ourselves the following questions: In what ways am I blind? In what situations am I deaf? How am I lame? In what way is my tongue mute? Isaiah pro...

Dec 06 2020

The Three Comings

Click here for daily readings On this Second Sunday of Advent, the Gospel presents to us the impassioned presence of St. John the Baptist – in the desert alone, dressed in camel’s hair, eating insects and wil...

Dec 05 2020

Advent and Compassion

Click here for daily readings We hear the hope of the Advent season in the readings today. In the Gospel we hear of Christ’s immense compassion for human suffering: “At the sight of the crowds, hi...

Dec 04 2020

Cleansed and Renewed

Click here for daily readings There is an absolutely beautiful scene from the popular TV show, Chosen, that depicts a scene similar to this. A leper is thrown out of society and seen as unclean. Even the apostles are afr...

Dec 03 2020

Strong Foundations

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings are all about foundations. A simple matter, really. Foundations are often overlooked in the everyday world. But that does not make them any less important. In the First Readin...

Dec 02 2020

Trusting God Is Guiding Us

Click here for daily readings In my lifetime, there’s never been a year like this year, a year where nearly every single person on the entire planet can say it has been a rough year. Between the pandemic, nat...

Dec 01 2020

Lord, Deepen Our Faith

Click here for daily readings In what way is Jesus contrasting revealing truths to the childlike and hiding them from the wise and the learned? The truth of the Gospel, which we proclaim during Advent, is that Jesus...

Nov 30 2020

The Call

Click here for daily readings Here we are, the first Monday of the first week of Advent. As Catholics, it’s kind of cool that we get to jumpstart the New Year while the old one is still winding down. Hopefully we f...

Nov 29 2020

Be Watchful

Click here for daily readings This year has been a test of faith, probably more so than any one previous. This statement is not to be taken lightly. In 2001, I stood as a bushy-eyed high schooler only a few streets away ...

Nov 28 2020

Cry out: Marana tha! Come, Lord Jesus!

Click here for daily readings Today is the last day of the liturgical year. For a whole year we have journeyed and struggled and wrestled and wondered and wandered with humanity as we have liturgically made our way from ...

Nov 27 2020

The Kingdom of God is at Hand

Click here for daily readings For me the day after Thanksgiving has no special meaning or space like an annual routine. As the years have passed, so has what the day holds. There have been times when I’ve been bund...

Nov 26 2020

An Attitude of Gratitude

Click here for daily readings It’s always interesting to hear the reactions when we have a period of Indian summer during our Michigan autumn. Some are in seventh heaven, pull out the golf clubs, throw some meat on...

Nov 25 2020

Christ Over Cancel Culture

Click here for daily readings Cancel culture is something we’ve become all too familiar with in our current, well, culture. But, for those of you who may not know what cancel culture is – on dictionary.com, ca...

Nov 24 2020

It’s Going to be OK

Click here for daily readings In all the other years of my life, even ones that were less than great, I haven’t taken much notice of the Scripture passages we read as we came to the end of the liturgical year. That&...