Category Archives: Inspiration Daily

Jun 12 2022

Three Persons in One God

Click here for daily readings Today is Trinity Sunday. The First and Second Reading, as well as the Gospel, all speak to the reality of the Trinity. The First Reading foreshadows what we will come to understand more deepl...

Jun 11 2022

Give It to Them Straight

Click here for daily readings Jesus is particularly clear in today’s Gospel from Matthew, a selection from his Sermon on the Mount: Speak the truth. “Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your...

Jun 10 2022

Humble Silence

Click here for daily readings When I was at Franciscan there was a common phrase amongst the Theology and Catechetics majors. Whenever asked what they wanted to do with their degree, a majority of the time you would hea...

Jun 09 2022

Grabbing or Giving

Click here for daily readings Jesus always calls us to MORE – more joy, more peace, more love. And he tells us how to receive this: he calls us to more love, more trust, more generous self-sacrifice, more letting go...

Jun 08 2022

When Stubbornness is Transformed

Click here for daily readings I have to admit that I’m a pretty stubborn gal. I tend to get thoughts, ideas or desires stuck in my head and don’t give up until they’re resolved or obtained. I have a knac...

Jun 07 2022

But if Salt Loses its Taste

Click here for daily readings I have a chalk wall in my kitchen, and each time that today’s Gospel about being salt of the earth and light of the world appears in our lectionary, I draw a salt shaker and a lightbulb...

Jun 06 2022

Mary Our Mother

Click here for daily readings In addition to giving himself in the Eucharist, Jesus shared his mother with us too. When he told John, “Behold your mother,” we all received a spiritual mother and she’s a ...

Jun 05 2022

Mission

Click here for daily readings Today we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost – the day the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles in the Upper Room and the day in which the Church was started. In the Upper Room, C...

Jun 04 2022

Gazing on the Face of the Lord

Click here for daily readings When my daughter was little, she had a soft, pink and white baby blanket which we called “Mimi.” I wondered where this term for her blanket had originated and thought perhaps it c...

Jun 03 2022

Food and Community

Click here for daily readings I love how Jesus was always eating. Many of the Gospel stories revolve around Jesus and his disciples sharing a meal together. He ate with tax collectors and sinners. Today’s Gospel s...

Jun 02 2022

Hope

Click here for daily readings The reading today from Acts has Paul saying he is “on trial for hope in the resurrection of the dead.” This leads to heated disputes between the Sadducees and the Pharisees becaus...

Jun 01 2022

One-ing and Joy

Click here for daily readings Prayer is an opening – and therefore a kind of revelation – of the heart. So in today’s Gospel, as we hear Jesus pray to the Father, we glimpse the sentiments of his holy He...

May 31 2022

Mary’s Joy

Click here for daily readings Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Visitation refers to Mary going to visit her cousin, Elizabeth, while carrying in her heart the good news of the...

May 30 2022

Promises

Click here for daily readings I found myself pondering the promises Jesus makes to His disciples as I reflected on the readings for today. Jesus promised that after three days the Son of Man would rise again. And it happe...

May 29 2022

No Passive Bystanders in God’s Kingdom

Click here for daily readings I remember as a child thinking that following Christ would have been so much easier if I had been alive when he walked the earth. There would be no need for faith—I would see him in th...

May 28 2022

On Speaking Boldly and Correcting Quietly

Click here for daily readings As a cradle Catholic with 16 years of Catholic school, I estimate that I attended Mass close to 7,000 times. And yet occasionally one of the day’s readings surprises me. “I’...

May 27 2022

Who is Your Neighbor?

Click here for daily readings The Lord does not allow the big stuff to happen without letting his people know first. I had a bad day yesterday. It seemed like a lot of the darkness in the world was coming in at me at the same...

May 26 2022

Now Heaven Is Present On The Earth

Click here for daily readings The Solemnity of the Ascension can be eclipsed for most of us by the Resurrection, Good Friday, and Christmas. For me, the Ascension is a liturgical feast that draws me inward and upward. Pop...

May 25 2022

Making the Unbearable Bearable

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel Christ tells His disciples, “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now”. Jesus knows the hearts of His disciples; He knows they love Him. Bu...

May 24 2022

The Gift of the Spirit

Click here for daily readings What has Jesus left his disciples? He has not written a book, or established a political entity, or given the Jews control over the earth, or crushed the Romans (as so many believed and hoped...