Category Archives: Ordinary Time 2021

Feb 16 2021

Are The Waters Rising?

Click here for daily readings There’s a moment that strikes at every parent’s heart: the moment where your kid does something wrong, thoughtless, selfish. We try and try and try to help our kids become caring...

Feb 12 2021

He Has Done All Things Well

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel we hear of the compassion of Christ once again. A man who is deaf and has a speech impediment is brought to Christ and, moved with compassion, Christ heals him. Perhap...

Feb 11 2021

Healing

Click here for daily readings Healing is again the focus in the Gospel today. Jesus heals all with no exceptions to the understood or unwritten norms and social concepts of the time. In his Monday address to the ambass...

Feb 10 2021

The Good From Within

Click here for daily readings “Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile” (Mark 7:15). These words, powerful words of Christ Jesus, s...

Feb 09 2021

Empty Rituals

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, Jesus reprimands the Pharisees for their criticism of the Apostles not properly washing their hands before their meal. Jesus is not necessarily saying that the ritual...

Feb 06 2021

Moved with Pity

Click here for daily readings “When He disembarked and saw the vast crowd, His heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things.” Mar...

Feb 03 2021

Our Tangible Faith

Click here for daily readings Today is the feast of St. Blaise. Many will find themselves driving to church to seek the traditional blessing of the throats. Two candles tied together with a ribbon somehow give us comfort ...

Feb 01 2021

Take Comfort

Click here for daily readings It’s St. Brigid’s feast day in Ireland and the first day of spring, too. I’m a third generation immigrant. This means I have two U.S.-born parents but at least one foreign-...

Jan 31 2021

Take Care—No, Really

Click here for daily readings I live on Cape Cod, where many of the old ships’ captain’s houses have been converted into inns. A couple of years ago a friend of mine, who owned one of them, told me in some di...

Jan 21 2021

There is Nothing I Shall Want

Click here for daily readings Desire: it can often be geared towards holy and beautiful things, but how often do our desires become absorbed in the culture around us? Do we let the world convince us of what should be most...

Jan 19 2021

Hope

Click here for daily readings There is a light snow falling as I write. It covers the dulled yellow and green grasses that are still visible here in West Michigan, making things look fresh. Snow on roadways can be quite ...

Jan 18 2021

New Wine and Fresh Wineskins

Click here for daily readings On December 12, 2020, I gave my life to God. Again. Reflecting upon this realization that I was promising to do God’s will, not my own, yet another time in my life, I wanted to co...

Jan 17 2021

Steps to Spiritual Growth

Click here for daily readings In twelve-step programs, one of the tools used for spiritual growth is the “three A’s”: Awareness, Acceptance, and Action. Each of our readings today highlights one or more...

Jan 16 2021

He Knows Me So Well

Click here for daily readings There’s an obscure moment in an equally obscure musical during which two women, both in love with the same man, sing a duet titled I Know Him So Well. Oddly enough, this is the song th...

Jan 15 2021

The One Who Heals

Click here for daily readings If you have spent any time listening to or reading the Gospels, you are aware of the discord between Jesus and the Pharisees. His preaching called into question the status quo and that made t...

Jan 14 2021

Forgiveness

Click here for daily readings “Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God’s loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will h...

Jan 12 2021

Childlike Awe

Click here for daily readings As a working mom, I make it a point to spend individual time with each of my kids as often as I can. They take turns having mommy “dates” and treasure their time with me just as m...