Category Archives: Ordinary Time 2019

Jan 25 2019

What Most People Miss About Life’s Journey

Click here for daily readings I need to admit to you that I was thinking about this Gospel commentary on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany. The month of January opens with the wise men making their way to the manger to offer ...

Jan 24 2019

God Wants Us to Suffer, A Pious Heresy

Click here for daily readings When I teach junior high classes about creation I usually draw a large circle on the whiteboard. I tell my class that this represents everything God created and I ask them to shout out the things th...

Jan 23 2019

In the Line of Melchizedek

Click here for daily readings Melchizedek. I admit that I signed up for this day so I could learn more about Melchizedek. It’s a technique I’ve been using since college. It forces me to learn new things and go out of...

Jan 19 2019

Living and Effective

Click here for daily readings As I write, I am in the midst of difficulties on both sides of the family. Granted, I come from a large family and my husband’s family has lived through many trials, but sometimes I want to th...

Jan 18 2019

Paralyzed

Click here for daily readings We are all paralyzed. Not necessarily in the physical sense but mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Paralyzed by fear. By tragedy. By anxiety. By overthinking. By addiction. By sin. By Sat...

Jan 17 2019

Following the Rules

Click here for daily readings I am the firstborn of my parents. My mom knew just what she wanted her daughter to be like. I started dance classes when I was three in the hopes that I would become graceful and elegant. I did all ...

Jan 16 2019

Memento Mori

Click here for daily readings It’s one of those thoughts that occur to you when it’s three o’clock in the morning and it feels like you’re the only person in the world who’s awake and everything tha...

Jan 15 2019

Amazed and Astonished by the Power of Christ

Click here for daily readings Two events happen in today’s Gospel: Jesus astonishes the people of Capernaum with his Sabbath teaching, and then Jesus amazes the people by casting out a demon. It was customary in a synagogu...