Category Archives: Mike Karpus

Jun 26 2022

Beyond Mammon

Click here for daily readings You will remember that just a few days ago, the Gospel for June 18 gave us that famous line from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, “You cannot serve God and mammon.” (Mt 6:24) It&...

Jun 11 2022

Give It to Them Straight

Click here for daily readings Jesus is particularly clear in today’s Gospel from Matthew, a selection from his Sermon on the Mount: Speak the truth. “Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your...

May 15 2022

He Makes All Things New

Click here for daily readings The Scripture readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter this year are jam-packed with so many great things. I feel as though we should celebrate this day and these words joyfully. In fact, I pl...

Apr 26 2022

Catch the Wind

Click here for daily readings Didn’t we just celebrate Easter nine days ago? In fact, our eight-day celebration of Easter just came to a close on Divine Mercy Sunday. How is it that the daily Gospels have returned t...

Apr 17 2022

All About Us

Click here for daily readings It is fairly common for us to hear in popular culture and public conservations someone being told, “It’s not all about you” when they are perceived as being selfish, self-ce...

Mar 26 2022

Have Mercy on Me, a Sinner

Click here for daily readings The tax collector in today’s Gospel prays a prayer very similar to the Jesus Prayer held so close to the hearts of our Orthodox brothers and sisters. As Luke tells us Jesus’...

Feb 25 2022

Two Become One

Click here for daily readings This summer, God willing, my wife and I will celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary. Reflecting on that makes me feel totally inadequate to discuss the topic of today’s Gospel, divorce....

Feb 04 2022

Kings and Commoners

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings offer us something that we in this current age of television, movies and mystery novels are pretty familiar with — the flashback. In the First Reading, Sirach fla...

Jan 26 2022

The Soil of Our Souls

Click here for daily readings If you’re like me, you probably can’t even count the number of times you’ve heard or read today’s Gospel, Mark’s version of the sower and the seed. That familiar...

Dec 17 2021

The Wisdom of God

Click here for daily readings O Wisdom of our God Most High, guiding creation with power and love: come to teach us the path of knowledge! I never knew my maternal grandfather; he died a year and a half before I was born....

Nov 17 2021

The Apple of God’s Eye

Click here for daily readings I was born to a Catholic couple and raised in a Catholic family. I lived in a Catholic house on the same block as a Catholic school, a half a block away from a Catholic church. I was baptized...