Category Archives: Kathryn Mulderink

Apr 10 2021

The Eighth Day?

Click here for daily readings Alleluia! It’s still Easter! Every year, I marvel at the reality that we prepare for Easter with 40 days of penitence, and then celebrate the magnificence of Christ’s Resurrectio...

Mar 30 2021

The Glory

Click here for daily readings What is the glory of God? How do we glorify Him? How is God glorified in us? Here at the beginning of Holy Week, we read in the Gospel of John that as soon as Judas left the Last Supper, Jes...

Mar 18 2021

Alert and Aligned

Click here for daily readings Did you ever spend a lot of time and energy trying to convince someone of something that seems so obvious you shouldn’t have to explain it? You may have been tempted to say, “Wha...

Mar 15 2021

Actually, I Have a Better Idea

Click here for daily readings Does it seem like your prayers are unanswered, or your petitions are tossed into a void? Do you weary of asking for things because it seems you will never receive them? Do you ever wonder wh...

Feb 24 2021

The Thought Of Losing Me

Click here for daily readings “At the judgment,” Jesus says in today’s Gospel, “the queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation and she will condemn them….(T)he men of Nine...

Feb 20 2021

Caught In The Gaze Of Jesus

Click here for daily readings Who was this “tax collector named Levi” in today’s Gospel? How did he enter into this profession? How many hours had Levi sat at the customs post counting and calculating t...

Jan 20 2021

Choosing Not To Choose Is Choosing

Click here for daily readings There is a battle going on in today’s Gospel, but Jesus is the only one who speaks! The Pharisees don’t need to open their mouths – in fact, they willfully remain silent &n...

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...