Category Archives: Lent

Mar 09 2021

To Turn

Click here for daily readings The verse before the Gospel today is a favorite of mine. “Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart; for I am gracious and merciful.” I actually have a tattoo o...

Mar 08 2021

Where Do You Put Your Faith?

Click here for daily readings We tend to think that material wealth can solve all of our problems, but the trials of everyday life are not resolved with money. In order to build lasting spiritual fortitude to weather the ...

Mar 07 2021

He Understands Us Well

Click here for daily readings I’m always amazed when I read Scripture. I can read the same passage 20 times, then the 21st time something that I barely noticed in the past strikes me as meaningful. Today, it was th...

Mar 06 2021

Return To God-His Arms Await You

Click here for daily readings I come from a family of exaggerators. (Did you notice I didn’t say “a long line of exaggerators”? See! I’m working on it! ☺) Anyway, we love to tell stories, loo...

Mar 05 2021

Rejection

Click here for daily readings Rejection is often a difficult pill to swallow. At some point in life, everyone experiences rejection. Maybe it was from your high school sweetheart, a boss or job interview gone sour, your ...

Mar 04 2021

The Lesson at the Gate

Click here for daily readings This Gospel story shares about Lazarus, a poor man resting at the gate of the rich man, who is longing for the scraps from the rich person’s excess. Despite his intense need, the owner...

Mar 03 2021

Set Free

Click here for daily readings Lent is well underway, with today being the second Wednesday of this holy season. Typically, it’s the time that I usually catch myself slipping on my intentions for the season as well....

Mar 02 2021

Practice What You Preach

Click here for daily readings Practice what you preach, it seems super basic doesn’t it? Well so is eating healthy and many of us don’t do that. So is sleeping enough but then midnight comes around and we are...

Mar 01 2021

The Command to Forgive

Click here for daily readings Forgiveness is one of the most amazing gifts God has given us. Yet, forgiveness is a gift we struggle to bestow on others. In the Gospel of Luke today, Jesus teaches His disciples that ...

Feb 28 2021

A Transfiguration of Body and Soul

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel reading, we hear the story of Christ’s transfiguration on Mt. Tabor. Jesus brings his inner circle of followers, Peter, James, and John, with him as He heads up ...

Feb 27 2021

Salvific Suffering

Click here for daily readings Here we are. We’ve made it through the first week and half of Lent already. Have these past ten days been as rough for you as they have for me? UGH! I could share sob stories about coun...

Feb 26 2021

Hope in the Lord

Click here for daily readings The Psalm today ends with the line “My soul has hoped in the Lord.” What does it mean to have hope? We use the word hope in many different ways throughout our day. We could hope t...

Feb 25 2021

Persistence In Prayer

Click here for daily readings We hear in today’s reading and Gospel about the importance of not just prayer, but persistence in prayer. Queen Esther spends the day praying to God for help in freeing her enslaved peo...

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 23 2021

The Perfect Prayer

Click here for daily readings In the First Reading we hear, “So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me empty, but shall do what pleases me, achieving the end for which I sent it&rd...

Feb 22 2021

Are You Blessed by Faith?

Click here for daily readings Jesus asked His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” The answers varied from a prophet to John the Baptist. He then asks the question each of us should carefully...

Feb 21 2021

God’s Covenant

Click here for daily readings Gn 9:8-15 is one of our first introductions to the word “covenant”. The word speaks of God’s promise to us. It is not through our works that we will receive grace, but thro...

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...

Feb 19 2021

Staying On the Path Toward God When Fasting

Click here for daily readings Of the three primary penitential practices of Lent, namely prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, fasting is the one that most often gets off track as a spiritual practice. How often does fasting ...

Feb 18 2021

Lent is here! Get it into Gear

Click here for daily readings Day Two of Lent and we are well on our way along the well-worn paths of Lenten themes. Jesus comes out strong today with some classic Lenten phrases: “Deny yourself, take up your cross...