Category Archives: Ordinary Time 2019

Jun 18 2019

Hurt People, Hurt People

Click here for daily readings Today, Jesus states in the Gospel to love our enemies. Yup, we’re going to be talking about this today. He said to LOVE them and pray for those who persecute you. Some of you are thinki...

Jun 16 2019

Longing for Spiritual Food

Click here for daily readings God communicates in different ways to different times, but the core message remains; a message of love. In the Old Testament God the Father spoke to the Prophets, in the New Testament the Word beca...

Jun 15 2019

Everything is Different Now

Click here for daily readings Life-altering events change our perspective on everything around us, don’t they? I remember so clearly how I felt the day my mother died. I walked down the street and looked around me and fel...

Jun 14 2019

An Antithesis of Ideas

Click here for daily readings An antithesis is a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by a connection of meaning through a connection of form. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus stands everyt...

Jun 13 2019

Faith and Charity

Click here for daily readings Today is the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, priest and doctor of the Church. While we know him as St. Anthony of Padua, he is from Lisbon, Portugal. Lisbon, understandably, takes great pride in bei...

Jun 12 2019

What Makes for Greatness? Who is the Greatest?

Click here for daily readings These are questions people ask all the time because there is in each of us the desire to matter. We want to know that what we do and who we are is important and meaningful. Our deepest so...

Jun 11 2019

A Thousand Points of Light

Click here for daily readings Does anyone remember this quote from President George H.W. Bush: “For we are a nation of communities, of thousands and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, n...

Mar 04 2019

Return to Him and Trust Him

Click here for daily readings The readings from Sirach and the Gospel are both clear and timeless. Go read them… if you haven’t. I’m confident that they will convey to you deeper and more vital truths than a r...

Mar 01 2019

Real and Permanent

Click here for daily readings The Church, faithful to the Gospel, believes that marriage is a lifelong bond, that God Himself joins the spouses together when they freely declare their vows. Much like today (unfortunately), divor...

Feb 28 2019

Free Will and Responsibility

Click here for daily readings “And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes.” – Mark 9:47 Jesus’ words in today’s ...

Feb 27 2019

Wisdom

Click here for daily readings The book of Sirach is one of the wisdom books in the bible. By its definition, wisdom is: 1. a) the ability to discern inner qualities and relationships [insight], b) good sense [judgment], c) gener...

Feb 26 2019

Stress and Peace

Click here for daily readings The older I get, the harder it is to put my trust in God. At the young age of 24, my life is just starting to become increasingly… real. Any young adult knows how I feel. There’s the ne...

Feb 25 2019

The Bridge between God’s Gracious Giving and our Fearful Hoping

Click here for daily readings Lavish generosity and awe-inspiring majesty. The first reading from the book of Sirach offers a view of eternal wisdom that is poured forth without restraint upon all the Lord’s works, “...

Feb 25 2019

Love is (Ideally) Loving Everyone

Click here for daily readings I apologize that this was not sent out yesterday. Here is the post for the readings for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. You will be receiving today’s reflection soon. God Bless! I don&rs...

Feb 23 2019

A Light in the Darkness

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, we hear of the Transfiguration of Christ. In a homily on this same Gospel, St. John Paul II said: “We, pilgrims on earth, are granted to rejoice in the company of the ...

Feb 22 2019

The Lord is my Shepherd

Click here for daily readings I once recited today’s Psalm (23) for a class assignment in high school. Not only is it one of the most well-known Psalms, thus making it easier to memorize, but it is also one of the most mov...

Feb 21 2019

What’s in a Name?

Click here for daily readings There was a lot of confusion in the New Testament about who exactly Jesus was. Yes, He was the son of Joseph, the carpenter, but there were a lot of other outside whispers that caused a lot of confu...

Feb 20 2019

Second Chances

Click here for daily readings “We will know heartache, Prayers that don’t work, And times of bitter circumstances. But I still believe in second chances.” (Schwartz, CHILDREN OF EDEN) After an unsuccessful firs...

Feb 19 2019

The Leaven of Language

Click here for daily readings I love making artisan bread. It sounds fancy, tastes fantastic and yet is so simple to make. Every time, I wonder, “Why I don’t do this more often?” My basic recipe includes flour,...

Feb 18 2019

May Everything In Me Honor You

Click here for daily readings In our readings today, we look in on different people who present themselves before the Lord: Cain and Abel in the First Reading from Genesis, and, in the Gospel, the Pharisees who come forward and ...