Category Archives: Lent 2019

Apr 20 2019

Joyful Anticipation

Click here for daily readings Tonight is the greatest night of the whole year. The chains of sin and death are broken, the grave is opened. That dark midnight hour is filled with the light of this wonderful reality, Christ is Ri...

Apr 19 2019

Perfect Love

Click here for daily readings “Christ became obedient to the point of death, Even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him And bestowed on him the name which is above every other name.” As a little ...

Apr 18 2019

The Triduum Begins

Click here for daily readings Today we enter into three of the most beautiful days of the liturgical year: the Triduum. During these three days, the regular rhythm of the liturgy – our daily Mass times – are disrupte...

Apr 17 2019

Be Better

Click here for daily readings We are in the middle of Holy Week, people! Less than a week until Easter! Less than a week until we commemorate the greatest gift of all! Is your soul refreshed? Are your hopes and desires getting y...

Apr 16 2019

Will You Also Betray Me?

Click here for daily readings Recently, I read a quote that states, “Christianity isn’t as much about getting to Heaven as it is allowing Heaven to get inside of you.” In our Scripture readings today, we hear h...

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...

Apr 14 2019

A Holy Procession

Click here for daily readings Yesterday my beautiful bride and I celebrated our 6 month anniversary of marriage. People say your wedding day goes by so fast that you are lucky to get a piece of your cake. This was certainly true...

Apr 13 2019

Lord, I Am Not Worthy

Click here for daily readings “So from that day on they planned to kill him” (John 11: 53). I have failed. I have betrayed my Lenten promises. I have neglected to follow through on carefully made plans. I have run f...

Apr 12 2019

Witness to the Gospel

Click here for daily readings As we approach Holy Week and the Passion of our Lord, the Gospels tell us more and more about the tensions that existed surrounding Jesus. In today’s Gospel, we hear that the Jews want to sto...

Apr 11 2019

The Final Leg

Click here for daily readings “So the Jews said to him, ‘You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.’&...

Apr 10 2019

The Face of Truth

Click here for daily readings Truth, noun, the property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality. Here we have a nice, neat, clinical definition of Truth. Something based in fact or reality. I’ve lived a...

Apr 09 2019

Be Strong and Vulnerable

Click here for daily readings This past week, I received some emails from readers that thanked me for sharing with y’all. I thanked them kindly and kind of brushed it off at first, but as I got a couple more, I realized ju...

Apr 08 2019

Reliable

Click here for daily readings Tim Cooper, my 7th grade teacher, brought Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” to vibrant life. Atticus Finch, champion of language and virtue, dares to defend the innocent withou...

Apr 07 2019

Neither Do I Condemn

Click here for daily readings The Gospel reading today is much richer than the surface understanding that Jesus was merciful. Though his mercy is certainly shown in this verse, there is something deeper going on here that speak...

Apr 06 2019

A Generous Heart

Click here for daily readings There are many times when I have a friend come to mind. Some friends with whom I’ve not connected in a month or years, while there are others whose latest message I’ve just read. God ha...

Apr 05 2019

Show Me

Click here for daily readings Let’s be honest. Who actually remembers the responsorial psalm when walking out of Mass? I know I tend to forget the response halfway through the psalm itself, let alone remember what was sun...

Apr 04 2019

Disappointed? Remind Yourself of this Instead

Click here for daily readings One of the aphorisms with which we try to reassure ourselves when we’re feeling things we don’t want to feel is this: “into every life some rain shall fall.” In other words,...

Apr 03 2019

I Am the Same Here and Now

Click here for daily readings Vulnerability moment my friends, I am super overwhelmed with my life these days. I feel as though I constantly have a million things to do. My planner is filled minute by minute in my day and I&rsq...

Apr 02 2019

Do You Want to be Well?

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus asks a man who has been ill for 38 years if he wants to be well. Your initial reaction to this might be, “Well, obviously. Who doesn’t want to be ...

Apr 01 2019

God’s Words are Action. Do we Believe Them?

Click here for daily readings The cure in today’s Gospel is not the most spectacular of Jesus’ miracles, certainly. At first glance, it seems rather un-spectacular: no conversation with demons, no mud in the eyes, n...