Category Archives: Merridith Frediani

Jun 23 2021

Be Like Abram

Click here for daily readings There’s a detail in today’s First Reading that was brought to my attention several years ago which changed the way I see this story now. Abram was questioning God’s plan. Go...

May 29 2021

Swimming Upstream

Click here for daily readings I think it’s interesting that as a practicing Catholic I am counter-cultural. It’s not a label I expected to be slapped to my shoulders. In today’s Responsorial Psalm I&rsqu...

Apr 20 2021

Jesus is the Bread of Life

Click here for daily readings A while back, I went through a faith reversion and I was participating in a small faith sharing group. One morning I told the group I had felt empty when I went to a non-Catholic church for a...

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...

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...

Jan 26 2021

Our Families and God’s Family

Click here for daily readings Families are messy. From the outside, a family can appear ideal but underneath it all, every family, even the one that seems perfect, has issues by virtue of the fact that all families are co...

Dec 15 2020

Worshipping Amid Oppression

Click here for daily readings Today’s First Reading about the oppressing city struck a chord in my heart. I sometimes feel like we are in a time of oppressing cities. During the lockdown essential businesses were al...

Nov 24 2020

It’s Going to be OK

Click here for daily readings In all the other years of my life, even ones that were less than great, I haven’t taken much notice of the Scripture passages we read as we came to the end of the liturgical year. That&...

Oct 14 2020

The Fruits of the Spirit

Click here for daily readings I don’t remember the exact path of the conversation but the Fruits of the Spirit came up and my daughter who was 17 or 18 at the time rattled them off as one word, ending with “se...

Sep 12 2020

A Cracked Foundation

Click here for daily readings Back in the day when lords and ladies were more of a thing, their titles held authority. The peasants listened to and obeyed the lord. (It may not have been a willing consent, but that is irr...