Category Archives: Inspiration Daily

May 12 2019

Do You Know The Shepherd?

Click here for daily readings I recently returned from a trip to Ireland. It was a wonderful trip up the East coast of the country, across the top and back down the West coast. Our tour started in Belfast and ended in Dublin. If...

May 11 2019

Does this Shock You?

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, we hear Jesus giving one of the hardest teachings in the bible. He is explaining the teaching of the Eucharist, that bread and wine really are turned into his body and blood...

May 10 2019

Encountering the Risen Lord

Click here for daily readings I embarrassingly just did a happy dance in my chair as I write this blog publically in my local coffee shop. Why am I embarrassing myself? Because today’s readings are epic and I am SO excited...

May 09 2019

They Shall all be Taught by God

Click here for daily readings The readings today have a common theme: teaching. It is also teacher appreciation week in the United States (world teacher’s day is October 5th). Coincidence or work of the Holy Spirit? My lif...

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 ...

May 07 2019

Taking the Tough Stuff

Click here for daily readings Martyr (n.): A person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle or cause. This is one of the many definitions I found on dictionary.com. Today’s first ...

May 06 2019

It’s Never Enough

Click here for daily readings Nearly three years ago, I was preparing to go to my first World Youth Day pilgrimage. I was excited but saw it more as a vacation than anything. At that point, I had begun losing faith and was barg...

May 05 2019

Abundance

Click here for daily readings Faith- what’s the first thing that pops into your mind when I say that word. Faith! How about Church? What’s the first thing you think of? How about rules? What comes to mind then? We a...

May 04 2019

Trust in Him

Click here for daily readings Have you ever had the little voice in your head tell you it’s time to change a certain situation, yet you hesitate or are too busy to do anything about it? Then, the next time something simi...

May 03 2019

A Believers Work

Click here for daily readings In Today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that He is the way, the truth, and the life. It is here that He shares the intimacy between Himself and God the Father. He states multiple times that He and ...

May 02 2019

Witnesses to Glory

Click here for daily readings In today’s readings, we hear what God is calling us to, as Christians. We are called to be witnesses to the Truth, no matter what the cost. I love the season of Easter because we get to read ...

May 01 2019

A Familiar Passage to a Refreshed Tune

Click here for daily readings Sometimes, Scripture readings are so familiar that I can “skim” over them. Hearing them so many times should embed them in our minds and hearts, but the adaptability of the human brain ...

Apr 30 2019

Just Like the First Apostles

Click here for daily readings Every time I read today’s reading from Acts of the Apostles, it fills me with contentment and peace. The early Christians were a united front, a tight team, and they looked after one another....

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 28 2019

Faith in His Mercy

Click here for daily readings Today is one of my favorite days in the liturgical calendar, Divine Mercy Sunday, and the readings paint a beautiful picture for how we should receive the mercy of God. These readings are largely b...

Apr 27 2019

You Better Recognize

Click here for daily readings Jesus must have been unrecognizable after he rose from the dead. Two-thousand years later, we find it difficult to recognize him in anything other than on a crucifix. People stood right in front of...

Apr 26 2019

Christ Our Light

Click here for daily readings We are in the Octave of Easter – the eight days following Easter, leading up to the First Sunday of Easter. All week we sing/pray the Gospel Alleluia verse: “This is the day the Lord ha...

Apr 25 2019

In The Moment

Click here for daily readings Christ is risen, alleluia, alleluia! Often times, Catholics and Christians alike forget that Easter is a whole liturgical season spanning 50 days and not just the one solitary Sunday. As we continu...

Apr 24 2019

Finding Jesus in our Neighbor

Click here for daily readings In today’s Scripture readings, we are reminded of the fact that Jesus Christ is alive and working. Our First Reading in the Acts of the Apostles speaks of the Spirit of Christ working through...

Apr 23 2019

Beautifully Absurd

Click here for daily readings My dad is a pretty big Beatles fan. And like most fans who follow a music group closely, he never requests the hits like “Hey Jude” or “Let It Be” because they have been play...