Category Archives: Lent

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 29 2021

Give Christ the Best of You

Click here for daily readings In the Gospel reading today, we read of Jesus’ visit to the house of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. As Jesus sat, Mary anointed His feet with an expensive oil and then wiped them with her h...

Mar 28 2021

Be Not Afraid

Click here for daily readings I have always found it hard to pray. To find the words. And so recently I have become invested in studying the Psalms, as the Psalms give the words and prayers bestowed to us by God Himself....

Mar 27 2021

All Will Believe

Click here for daily readings “What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs. If we leave him alone, all will believe in him.” ~John 11:48 Although I have never personally met George Washington, I...

Mar 26 2021

Fresh Insight

Click here for daily readings The scene in the Gospel today has many Jews picking up rocks to stone Jesus for blasphemy, for making himself God. The people do not recognize that Jesus’ teachings and his works (mira...

Mar 25 2021

The Humility of Christ’s Humanity

Click here for daily readings “Him whom the heavens cannot contain, the womb of one woman bore.” St. Augustine of Hippo In today’s Gospel we hear the story of the Annunciation and Mary’s “yes...

Mar 24 2021

Freedom

Click here for daily readings “And the truth will set you free” is a phrase we often hear thrown around in movies but did you know it came from Jesus himself? I didn’t. It wasn’t until I was ...

Mar 23 2021

Winter Waves

Click here for daily readings The wind today is particularly aggressive and our little portion of Lake Michigan is turbulent. As I drove up the lakefront after work I noticed how violent and unsettled the water was. I cou...

Mar 22 2021

Silent Trust

Click here for daily readings “Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil, for you are at my side.” What do you think of as you hear these words from today’s Responsorial Psalm? Trust? Courage? ...

Mar 20 2021

In the Silence

Click here for daily readings “God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen.” -St. Teresa of Calcutta- In today’s Gospel we hear of the doubts many people harbored against Christ. Jesus’ ...

Mar 19 2021

Joseph Moments

Click here for daily readings Today is the Solemnity of St Joseph, the husband of Mary, the man who is called “just.” To call a person “just,” is like saying “he who is virtuous in all thing...

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 17 2021

There is a Time for Every Season

Click here for daily readings The first signs of spring are a reason for rejoicing in the colder, northern regions. Here in West Michigan, all the snow has melted, the birds are singing as morning dawns, and although the ...

Mar 16 2021

Striking a Balance

Click here for daily readings I am a child of two very disparate worlds. My mother grew up in the American South, raised by staunchly Southern Baptist relatives, and she absorbed some odd practices: no drinking, no danci...

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...

Mar 14 2021

Basketball Evangelization

Click here for daily readings Is anyone old enough to remember the guy that traveled from pro basketball and pro football games around the country for many years with his favorite sign: John 3:16? One thing he did was to ...

Mar 13 2021

Mercy, Love and Knowledge

Click here for daily readings The book of Hosea is a beautiful love story full of mercy, faithfulness and forgiveness. Hosea 6:6 says, “For it is love that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than b...

Mar 12 2021

God has never given up on us and never will

Click here for daily readings Hosea represents the heart of salvation history. Despite our wanderings and wailings and wonderings, even after our fickleness, our refusals and our settled decisions to do things our way or...

Mar 11 2021

Listen and Move

Click here for daily readings “If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts.” Today’s Responsorial Psalm fits perfectly into my life, with yesterday being my last day at Diocesan and saying a scar...

Mar 10 2021

Fulfilling the Law

Click here for daily readings I love the readings for today because they connect so beautifully. The Church is brilliant with how it pairs readings sometimes. The first reading for today speaks about the importance of th...