Category Archives: Ordinary Time 2020

Sep 09 2020

Rejoice!

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel reading we hear the Beatitudes. Christ tells us, “Blessed are you who are poor…who are now hungry…who are now weeping…when people hate you,...

Sep 08 2020

Do Not Be Afraid

Click here for daily readings “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid…” Right now I am afraid. Where I once had meaningful work, now I am in a liminal space where I can’t hide in what I do. The wo...

Sep 07 2020

Becoming a Fresh Batch of Dough

Click here for daily readings Sometimes we are capable of things we never thought humanly possible. Sometimes we have to push ourselves beyond our limits, beyond our comfort zone and power through. Sometimes feeling tire...

Sep 06 2020

God, Grant Me The Courage To Be A Watchman

Click here for daily readings Today’s first reading is a struggle – warning others, speaking out against faults and wrongdoings, being brave rather than cowardly. I have always been one who prefers shying awa...

Sep 05 2020

Sabbath Rest

Click here for daily readings The Pharisees are at it again – trying so hard to catch Jesus “in the act,” committing some sort of crime for which they could bring Him down. This time (much like every tim...

Sep 04 2020

Light Of The World

Click here for daily readings The Gospel reading today says “…the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” Lk 5:35 It certainly feels like i...

Sep 03 2020

An Old Fish Tale

Click here for daily readings This Gospel today is pretty familiar to most of us, especially if you have watched the phenomenal series, Chosen. But today I want to focus on an aspect of the story that maybe we don’t...

Sep 02 2020

We Belong To Him

Click here for daily readings “I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth. Therefore, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who causes the growth.” In today&...

Sep 01 2020

All It Takes Is One Step

Click here for daily readings “Be quiet! Come out of him!” I am distracted. I wake up with notifications on my phone. Thoughts about work immediately rush into my head as I pour my coffee. A load of emails gre...

Aug 31 2020

The God of Surprises

Click here for daily readings When men are ordained, they often return to their home parish to celebrate their first Mass and preach, so that the community from which they were called can rejoice with them at the beginni...

Aug 30 2020

Playing It Safe Is Not Our Mission

Click here for daily readings In the reading today, we see Jesus revealing his mission to the disciples: that he would die, and on the third day rise again. Peter, who was just praised and proclaimed “the Rock&rdqu...

Aug 29 2020

He Must Increase

Click here for daily readings “Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist” (Matt 11:11). Today we celebrate a great saint, although he never refers to ...

Aug 28 2020

Buying Oil

Click here for daily readings I’ve always been fascinated by the image of ten virgins in the dead of night, each nursing a solitary flame. They are waiting, as women tend to do, for a bridegroom to appear. When he ...

Aug 27 2020

Wake Up Your Faith

Click here for daily readings Before you read any further, pause. Take a few minutes to evaluate your spiritual life. How is your relationship with God? Are you on fire, full of zeal for the Lord? Are you keeping the Lor...

Aug 26 2020

Has Anything Really Changed?

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings sound like a major slap in the face to those that it may apply to. But, there are times in our lives when that is exactly what we need. In the First Reading, Paul is t...

Aug 25 2020

Living and Effective

Click here for daily readings “The word of God is living and effective, able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.” Today’s Gospel is part of a succession of statements from Jesus which begi...

Aug 24 2020

Divine Power

Click here for daily readings I love the snark coming from Jesus in the Gospel today. First off, we see Nathanael doubting that anything good could possibly come from Nazareth. You can almost feel the uppity attitude thr...

Aug 23 2020

A City On a Rock

Click here for daily readings Caesarea Philippi was built like a fortress on a rocky cliff; it seemed a city secure from all invaders. It is here that Jesus chooses to openly reveal himself and his plan for a secure City ...

Aug 22 2020

Unless You Become As Little Children…

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel reading can be summed up in this warning: “Beware the paparazzi!” Of course, 99% of us aren’t that high profile that we have to worry about a crowd of p...

Aug 21 2020

Breathing the Breath of God

Click here for daily readings I had quite the feisty temper when I was little and my mother would always tell me to take a deep breath before responding if my reaction could be hurtful or damaging. The power of that one b...