Category Archives: Matthew Juliano

Nov 23 2024

Living in Love / Vivir en el Amor

Click here for daily readings Is there anything better? My fiancé and I have been engaged for about four months and we are thrilled! We’ve both seen the fruits of the Spirit as we grew in our “dating” re...

Apr 23 2019

Beautifully Absurd

Click here for daily readings My dad is a pretty big Beatles fan. And like most fans who follow a music group closely, he never requests the hits like “Hey Jude” or “Let It Be” because they have been play...

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...

Mar 18 2019

Divine Self-Awareness and Responsibility

Click here for daily readings In the First Reading, Daniel admits to his sins and those of Judah. Context aside, the dialogue sounds very much like a person participating in the sacrament of Reconciliation: it is a voluntary ad...

Mar 04 2019

Return to Him and Trust Him

Click here for daily readings The readings from Sirach and the Gospel are both clear and timeless. Go read them… if you haven’t. I’m confident that they will convey to you deeper and more vital truths than a r...

Feb 14 2019

Leisure and Service

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel is the episode of Jesus healing the Gentile woman’s daughter who had an unclean spirit. It takes all of the predictable turns of Jesus’ encounters with the poor: the...

Feb 02 2019

Purified in Unity

Click here for daily readings Growing in faith can be pretty painful sometimes. Actually, it’s mostly painful. It’s not until we are transformed that we see why choosing to suffer with and for Christ is, in fact, the...

Jan 14 2019

Drop Your (Safety) Nets

Click here for daily readings On All Saints Day of 2013, I dropped my (safety) nets and followed Jesus. I’ve heard the stories of Jesus calling the apostles and they sound even more strange as an adult. “Are they bra...

Jan 02 2019

Bigfoot, the Boogieman, and the Antichrist

Click here for daily readings When I heard a passionate televangelist use the word “antichrist”, my first thought was: “Whoa, calm down, bro. You’re a little too angry for an invisible boogieman.&rdq...

Dec 29 2018

Do You Even Love, Bro?

Click here for daily readings My younger brother is easily 20 lbs. heavier than I am. Pure muscle. His gym is considering changing his billing from a monthly membership to a living-space rent. By his physique, his time dedicatio...

Dec 14 2018

Do We Recognize Him?

Click here for daily readings Do We Recognize Him? For all the laughs and humor, Jim Carrey’s Bruce Almighty manages to incorporate important and authentic theological themes within the levity of his comedic performa...

Nov 24 2018

Living in Love

Click here for daily readings Is there anything better? My fiancé and I have been engaged for about four months and we are thrilled! We’ve both seen the fruits of the Spirit as we grew in our “...

Nov 13 2018

What Do We Say?

Click here for daily readings “Thank you.” Of the many habits my parents have helped form in me (brushing my teeth before and after the day, scraping my plate before loading it into the dishwasher, making my bed (whi...

Oct 21 2018

He Lived It, He Gets It

Click here for daily readings I love Jesus. And the older I grow, the more I grow in understanding of Him and love of Him. Despite my failings, He continues to transform from the historic, static figure that I knew as a child in...

Oct 08 2018

Be Available, Be Generous

Click here for daily readings The Good Samaritan; a difficult story to reflect upon without being banal and writing a thought that has been shared before. This is a story that is so integrated into our society that we even have ...

Sep 21 2018

Disciple: The Recovering Sinner

Click here for daily readings “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do… I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.” Matthew 9:12-13 A personal resolution I made at the beginni...

Sep 12 2018

The Fitness Plan

Click here for daily readings The Gospel is calling us to choose suffering so we can be detached from creation and be more like our Creator, Love, and inherit eternal life. I used to think and hope that heaven was just a divine ...

Aug 31 2018

His Weakness

Click here for daily readings “The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.” -G.K. Chesterton The first reading is quite the encounter with Christ: explicit yet enigmatic, demanding yet alluring. I frequently go to...

Aug 21 2018

I Have To Give Everything?

Click here for daily readings “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who ...

Aug 08 2018

Respond To The Suffering Near

Click here for daily readings There are a handful of times when I remember God made his plan pretty clear to me. The first time was when I was on my eighth grade confirmation retreat. The retreat leader, Tony Bellizzi, led us th...