Category Archives: Ordinary Time 2019

Nov 01 2019

Feast of All Saints!

Click here for daily readings Catholics are a curious group. More than any other Christian believers, they have a culture filled with saints. They name their children after saints, they invoke them in their speech, and they have...

Oct 31 2019

If God Is For Us, Who Can Be Against Us?

Click here for daily readings “What comes into our mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” (A. W. Tozer) The first sentence in today’s second reading would be enough. Because the rea...

Oct 30 2019

Where Does Goodness Come From?

Click here for daily readings There are days when everything goes ever-so-slightly wrong, aren’t there? When you feel you’re just not paying attention? I have those days fairly frequently. I snap at someone I care ab...

Oct 29 2019

Our Present Hope

Click here for daily readings One of my co-workers, who I admire, gave a talk at our school the other day. He talked about endurance and told us the definition of endurance: to suffer patiently. I’d never thought of endura...

Oct 28 2019

Called

Click here for daily readings During Eucharistic adoration with my high school teens last Monday night, I was struck by the word, “called.” We had just finished singing “O Come to the Altar,” where the li...

Oct 27 2019

Freedom in Humility

Click here for daily readings When looking up the definition of humility, I came across two different responses. It was first defined as a modest or low view of one’s own importance; humbleness. The second definition...

Oct 26 2019

The Case of the Fruitless Fig Tree

Click here for daily readings A few years back, in one of his homilies, my pastor made a point concerning vice and virtue. Although I don’t recall the exact words he used, the gist of the message was this: vice, by its nat...

Oct 25 2019

Read the Signs and Act

Click here for daily readings Bonus Post! Jesus has some pretty strong words for us in today’s readings. This whole week, it seems Luke is full of the types of readings that we would rather skim over and get on to somethin...

Oct 25 2019

Body Bad, Spirit Good

Click here for daily readings The body is bad, and the spirit is good is the battle cry of a common heresy that I think is still making the rounds today; it is the heresy of Gnosticism. This is essentially the belief that all ma...

Oct 24 2019

An Eternal Choice

Click here for daily readings Psalm 1 always makes me think of Sr. Mary Augusta. For a number of years I sat next to Sr. Augusta in chapel and assisted her with finding the pages for community prayer in the Liturgy of the Hours....

Oct 23 2019

God’s Will For Me Is Right Here

Click here for daily readings “Lord, what am I supposed to be doing?” Have you ever wondered or asked the Lord why you are alive, or what He wants you to do? Have you ever thought that this is almost impossible to kn...

Oct 22 2019

Totus Tuus

Click here for daily readings “From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust when all hope is gone.” – St. John Paul II Today we celebrate one of the great saint...

Oct 21 2019

Faith and Greed

Click here for daily readings It is the feast day of St. Gaspar de Bufalo. He had an unwavering faith, much like that of Abraham in the first reading. If you are like me and not familiar with this “litt...

Oct 20 2019

Pray Without Ceasing

Click here for daily readings At first, it seemed pretty easy to follow what today’s Gospel is asking us to do: pray without ceasing. Be like the persistent widow who continuously bothers the judge until he finally deliver...

Oct 19 2019

It Depends on Faith

Click here for daily readings In today’s first reading, we read that God’s chosen people, Abraham’s descendants, were not going to be saved because they followed the law, but because they had faith. Reading thi...

Oct 18 2019

Divine Healing

Click here for daily readings I recently got the chance to meet an incredible Healing Ministry that is doing the Lord’s work in my diocese. If you are unfamiliar with prayer teams like this, the focus is on the Holy Spirit...

Oct 17 2019

Faith and Works

Click here for daily readings Today in the first reading, we have the classic text that is used to justify a faith alone mentality or the idea that merely having an intellectual belief that does not involve an act of the will, i...

Oct 16 2019

Try the Mirror First

Click here for daily readings Not long ago, I was out for coffee with an acquaintance when an extremely overweight person was seated next to us—with some difficulty, because there wasn’t quite enough room between the...

Oct 15 2019

Mighty

Click here for daily readings Through today’s first reading, responsorial psalm and Gospel, I see one consistent theme: the power of God. How often do we sit down and reflect, really reflect, on God’s power? Could we...

Oct 14 2019

Called to be an Apostle

Click here for daily readings I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the difference between a disciple and an apostle, and here the first reading speaks entirely about being an apostle. I think a lot of the time, us Catholi...