Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Jun 11 2022

Give It to Them Straight

Click here for daily readings Jesus is particularly clear in today’s Gospel from Matthew, a selection from his Sermon on the Mount: Speak the truth. “Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your...

Jun 10 2022

Humble Silence

Click here for daily readings When I was at Franciscan there was a common phrase amongst the Theology and Catechetics majors. Whenever asked what they wanted to do with their degree, a majority of the time you would hea...

Jun 09 2022

Grabbing or Giving

Click here for daily readings Jesus always calls us to MORE – more joy, more peace, more love. And he tells us how to receive this: he calls us to more love, more trust, more generous self-sacrifice, more letting go...

Jun 08 2022

When Stubbornness is Transformed

Click here for daily readings I have to admit that I’m a pretty stubborn gal. I tend to get thoughts, ideas or desires stuck in my head and don’t give up until they’re resolved or obtained. I have a knac...

Jun 07 2022

But if Salt Loses its Taste

Click here for daily readings I have a chalk wall in my kitchen, and each time that today’s Gospel about being salt of the earth and light of the world appears in our lectionary, I draw a salt shaker and a lightbulb...

Jun 06 2022

Mary Our Mother

Click here for daily readings In addition to giving himself in the Eucharist, Jesus shared his mother with us too. When he told John, “Behold your mother,” we all received a spiritual mother and she’s a ...

Mar 01 2022

Feasting And Fasting

Click here for daily readings It’s Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday/Shrove Tuesday/Carnival! That means Lent begins tomorrow! Are you prepared to prepare? Do you have a plan for observing this holy season? Every year, we are...

Feb 28 2022

Heavenly Treasures

Click here for daily readings We are all familiar with today’s Gospel story about the rich young man who is unable to surrender his wealth in order to follow Jesus, and especially Jesus’ perplexing comments ab...

Feb 27 2022

Did You Find The Beam?

Click here for daily readings One of my favorite books in the Old Testament is Sirach. Today we all get a taste with just a few verses. Verse seven of today’s reading says, “Praise no man before he speaks, for it ...

Feb 26 2022

Called To Be A Compelling Sign Of Hope

Click here for daily readings Everyone knows the proverb “It takes a village to raise a child.” It means that children need an entire community of people providing for them and engaging them constructively for...

Feb 25 2022

Two Become One

Click here for daily readings This summer, God willing, my wife and I will celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary. Reflecting on that makes me feel totally inadequate to discuss the topic of today’s Gospel, divorce....

Feb 24 2022

Salt and Sin as Synonyms

Click here for daily readings When someone says winter to me I think of snow as I’ve lived in the midwest most of my life. Indiana, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Michigan collectively average thirty eight inches of snow, ...

Feb 23 2022

Memento Mori – Remember That You Will Die

Click here for daily reading We hear a strange reprimand from St. James today: “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a pr...

Feb 22 2022

Living Witnesses

Click here for daily readings The Catholic world has been rocked in recent years by many scandals committed by those ordained to serve their flock. Creating a sort of no-win scenario, conversations tend to balance betwee...

Feb 21 2022

Fidelity Helps My Unbelief

Click here for daily readings Often my prayer resembles the words spoken by the boy’s father in Mark’s Gospel, who has come to beg the Lord to heal his son, “But if you can do anything, have compassion o...

Feb 20 2022

The Collapse Of The Open Heart

Click here for daily readings Jesus sometimes used hyperbole to get his listeners’ ears open; he talked about plucking out eyes or chopping off hands, which he certainly did not mean literally (he only meant that o...

Feb 19 2022

You are God’s divinely-loved-ones

Click here for daily readings The word that leaped from the page of my Missal this morning was the word “Beloved.” When Jesus is transfigured on the mountain before the three apostles Peter, James, and John, t...

Feb 18 2022

Whoever Is Ashamed Of Me

Click here for daily readings Being ashamed of someone implies a familial relationship, a deep level of caring. We can get mad at people in whom we have no emotional investment. Being ashamed is reserved for t...

Feb 17 2022

How God Thinks

Click here for daily readings When I think of the most relatable person in the Bible, Peter is often the first to come to mind. He messes up. A lot. The event we hear of in the Gospel is one of those times. Rather than em...

Feb 16 2022

Stop Deluding Yourself

Click here for daily readings The Letter of James is short and to the point on how we are to behave. There are points made about anger, the word of God and action. However, as I read it, I came to see that it is about lis...