Category Archives: Matthew Juliano

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...

Jul 22 2018

For His Name’s Sake

Click here for daily readings The Lord is my Shepherd… but sometimes I wonder what He wants. And why He is leading me where He is. In late 2015, life was good. My relationships were good, my professional life was ok; thin...

Jul 11 2018

Trust

Click here for daily readings Since they do not fear the LORD, what can the king do for them? I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the times in my life that are marked by providence are also the times that I chose...

Jun 22 2018

Treasures of Heaven

Click here for daily readings Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither ...

Jun 11 2018

Blessed Are They

Click here for daily readings When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is th...

May 22 2018

Two Minds, Fractured Heart

Click here for daily readings Beloved: “Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members? You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but ...

May 11 2018

Joy Is Everlasting

Click here for daily readings Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy. When a woman is in labor, she i...