Category Archives: Kathryn Mulderink

Jan 13 2021

Driven By Desire…For What?

Click here for daily readings What gets you out of bed before dawn? We push ourselves beyond our superficial comforts for things that we value. Some people seem to focus on fun or competition and stay up late gaming. Som...

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 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 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...

Nov 21 2020

The Presentation of Mary

Click here for daily readings Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of the Presentation of Mary. This is not found in the Gospel, but is based on an ancient tradition that Mary was taken to the Temple in Jerusalem and...

Nov 14 2020

Father Knows Best (And Gives Freely To His Children)

Click here for daily readings Today’s parable is straightforward on the surface: we should never become weary of praying, even if it seems our prayer is not being heard. But if we just look a little deeper, there i...

Nov 08 2020

I Do Not Know You

Click here for daily readings Let’s begin by clarifying that the “wedding feast” here refers to Heaven, and the bridegroom is Jesus himself (images already present in the Old Testament). The Church is t...

Oct 23 2020

Signs of the Times

Click here for daily readings Jesus points to the fact that his listeners (and his detractors) could certainly interpret indications of oncoming weather – clouds mean rain, wind from the south means heat – an...

Oct 10 2020

Blessed Are Who?

Click here for daily readings In today’s short Gospel, we have much to ponder. A woman from the crowd, acknowledging Jesus’ goodness, acknowledges also the presumed blessedness of his mother. It is a complime...

Oct 07 2020

Our Lady Of The Rosary, Our Lady Of Victory

Click here for daily readings Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. Where does this title and celebration come from? At the last apparition of Fatima on October 13, Mary identified herself i...

Sep 29 2020

Angels

Click here for daily readings It seems many of us don’t give angels a lot of thought. When we do think about them, we tend to think about them in either a childish way (“Angel of God, my guardian dear…...

Sep 17 2020

Superpowers?

Click here for daily readings When I was a child preparing for my first confession, it seemed to me that Jesus had “superpowers” in the Gospel stories I heard. I was amazed that the people walking down the st...

Aug 31 2020

The God of Surprises

Click here for daily readings When men are ordained, they often return to their home parish to celebrate their first Mass and preach, so that the community from which they were called can rejoice with them at the beginni...

Aug 23 2020

A City On a Rock

Click here for daily readings Caesarea Philippi was built like a fortress on a rocky cliff; it seemed a city secure from all invaders. It is here that Jesus chooses to openly reveal himself and his plan for a secure City ...

Aug 12 2020

We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know, So We Need Each Other

Click here for daily readings Sometimes, we don’t know what we don’t know. Sometimes, we don’t know that the way we are reaching for our goals is hurtful to others or ourselves, or even that our goals ar...

Jul 21 2020

Making Our Way Home

Click here for daily readings This is a short but somewhat confusing Gospel, wherein Jesus seems to casually dismiss his own family, even his own mother! “Who is my mother? …. Here are my mother and my brothers. Fo...

Jul 07 2020

What Do I Want?

Click here for daily readings What is the most important thing for you today? What do you look forward to? What is waiting for you when you finish the work that must be done, the thing you are eager for? Today’s liturgy r...

Mar 10 2020

Climbing Up By Bowing Down

Click here for daily readings “All their works are performed to be seen.” Do you know people like this? It seems they live as if a camera were constantly on, and they are always “performing.” Because the...

Mar 03 2020

Whose Kingdom is it? Who is in Control?

Click here for daily readings We probably say the Lord’s Prayer at least once a day. These words are part of our Christian “DNA.”But do we really KNOW what we are praying? Father, “hallowed be THY Name.&r...

Feb 28 2020

Becoming a Beautiful Bride

Click here for daily readings Today’s short Gospel is a quick Q & A between the disciples of John and Jesus – one question, with a two-sentence answer. And yet, the answer gives us much to ponder. The disciples o...