Category Archives: Hannah Crites

Jun 04 2019

The Order That Should Have Failed

Click here for daily readings Today’s gospel recounts the final moments before Jesus’ arrest in John’s gospel. He offered up his approaching crucifixion and pleads God the Father for the preservation of his di...

May 22 2019

St Rita: Teacher of Forgiveness

Click here for daily readings “Let me, my Jesus share in Thy suffering, at least one of Thy thorns.” – Saint Rita of Cascia Jesus’ words in today’s gospel seem near impossible for any regular man to...

May 08 2019

Food for the Journey

Click here for daily readings In today’s gospel reading, Jesus continues his bread of life discourse where he tells his followers that without the bread of life he speaks of, we have no life. Jesus promises that those who ...

Apr 29 2019

St. Catherine of Siena: Christ’s Beloved Laborer

Click here for daily readings Today, the Church celebrates the Memorial of Saint Catherine of Siena, whose life reflects today’s gospel, where Jesus invites us to find rest in him. St. Catherine serves as a model of...

Apr 15 2019

Avoiding Hypocrisy during Holy Week

Click here for daily readings We are now in the midst of the most important week of the year. The entirety of Jesus’ life and mission leads to this week, which ends with him dying on the cross and rising from the dead. The...

Mar 19 2019

St. Joseph: A Model of Humility

Click here for daily readings Today, the Church celebrates one of the most celebrated saints in all of tradition: St. Joseph. Not much is known about St. Joseph outside of what we hear in the gospels of St. Luke and St. Matthew...

Feb 28 2019

Free Will and Responsibility

Click here for daily readings “And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes.” – Mark 9:47 Jesus’ words in today’s ...

Feb 11 2019

Do Whatever He Tells You

Click here for daily readings Today, the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, when in 1858, the Blessed Mother appeared to a 14-year-old girl in Lourdes, France. Now, over 160 years later, millions of people trave...

Jan 11 2019

Touched by the Messiah

Click here for daily readings This Thanksgiving, I was at my grandmother’s house with 12 other members when my family and my little sister arrived and announced that she had pink eye. We were cautioned to make sure we cons...

Dec 26 2018

St. Stephen’s Martyrdom

Click here for daily readings After celebrating the glorious day of Christ’s birth, the liturgical calendar remembers Saint Stephen, one of the first converts to the Catholic faith and first of many to give their lives in ...

Dec 08 2018

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary

Click here for daily readings Today, our blessed mother Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, one of the greatest Marian feasts of the year, but also one of the most widely misu...

Nov 30 2018

Fishers of Men

Click here for daily readings Today, we celebrate the Feast of Saint Andrew, an apostle of Christ. In the readings, we see Saint Andrew called from his father’s boat along with his more celebrated brother, Saint Peter, and...

Nov 14 2018

Heart Of Gratitude

Click here for daily readings How does one have a heart of gratitude during the rise of a “Me” culture? This individualism and quest for entitlement has allowed whole generations to believe that they are owed everyth...