Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Jan 10 2022

God is God

Click here for daily readings The Responsorial Psalm at Mass today reminds us that “a sacrifice of praise” is integral to the worship of God. In Psalm 116, the speaker is praising God particularly becaus...

Nov 27 2021

Are You and I Vigilant?

Click here for daily readings If you are a regular churchgoer, by now you have noticed the readings are rather dark this time of year. By that, I mean Scripture is speaking to us about End Times. The church asks us to meditat...

Nov 26 2021

Jesus’ Word

Click here for daily readings I have been blessed this year to be a part of a wonderful Bible Study at our parish. In the past few weeks, the group I am helping to facilitate looked more closely at the trustworthiness of ...

Nov 25 2021

Thankful in All Things

Click here for daily readings Today many of us will gather together with our loved ones for the first time in nearly two years. So many holidays have passed with us visiting on a screen or through a window, and I’m ...

Nov 24 2021

Prepare for Battle

Click here for daily reading This week we have occasion to think of the end of time. Immediately, Jesus’ words in the Gospels are referring to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in AD 70. Think of the phrase...

Nov 23 2021

Praise and Exalt Him

Click here for daily readings In today’s Psalm, we hear the phrase “praise and exalt Him above all forever.” Our lives can get pretty busy. From work, to family, to running a household, to everythi...

Nov 22 2021

Altruism and Two Small Coins

Click here for daily readings The Gospel today has the second account of the widow and her two small coins. I find this quite fitting on the Monday before Thanksgiving. The widow’s offering is the definition of alt...

Nov 21 2021

Our Lord Jesus Christ, King Of The Universe

Click here for daily readings If you give too much attention to the news, to social media, or to the murmurings of the masses, you will find endless reasons to be confused, afraid, even despondent. But if you contemplate...

Nov 20 2021

When the Bad Guys Win

Click here for daily readings As I mentioned in my last reflection, I—and millions of other Christians – have been listening to Father Mike Schmitz’s Bible in a Year podcast since January 1st. As it happ...

Nov 19 2021

Hanging on Jesus’ Words

Click here for daily readings The last line of the Gospel, “all the people were hanging on his words’ (Luke 19:48b) strikes me as a very good way to live. Hanging on the words of Jesus. Jesus cleansing the tem...

Nov 18 2021

Shed Some Tears

Click here for daily readings At significant moments in the Gospels, Jesus weeps. He weeps at the sight of his friend Lazarus dead in his tomb. He weeps when praying in the garden the night before his crucifixion. It is ...

Nov 17 2021

The Apple of God’s Eye

Click here for daily readings I was born to a Catholic couple and raised in a Catholic family. I lived in a Catholic house on the same block as a Catholic school, a half a block away from a Catholic church. I was baptized...

Nov 16 2021

Zacchaeus, A Conversion That Impacted An Entire Community!

Click here for daily readings “The Son of Man has Come to seek and save what is lost.” The Gospel today shares the powerful story of Zacchaeus and how Jesus touched his own heart and his whole family, as Jesu...

Nov 15 2021

It’s a Comin’!

Click here for daily readings I grew up in Texas, which is south but not what I would call THE South. Texas is its own kind of south since there are so many western influences (see: cowboy references). It also has its own...

Nov 14 2021

Be Vigilant at all Times

Click here for daily readings I opened the Divine Office today, more specifically the Office of Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours, for additional insight on the readings for today. St. Augustine wrote, “We ...

Nov 13 2021

Turning to God in Prayer

Click here for daily readings As my family walked down the aisle to receive Holy Communion, I noticed my three-year-old approach the Eucharistic Minister with hands folded. When he reached her, he looked up at her with pl...

Nov 12 2021

Preparing Daily

Click here for daily readings “They were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.” Today, maybe Jesus would say, “They were eating, drinking, watching, posting, zooming, working.” The...

Nov 11 2021

Stay on Target

Click here for daily readings In the first Star Wars movie made, “A New Hope,” the rebel forces (the good guys) are trying to destroy the formidable Death Star. On a mission to fire a shot into its only signif...

Nov 10 2021

An Examination of Blessings

Click here for daily readings In today’s gospel, Luke tells the story of Jesus healing ten lepers. All the lepers walk away, and only one returns to thank Him. Jesus says to him, “Ten were cleansed, were they ...

Nov 09 2021

Perfect Justice and Perfect Mercy

Click here for daily readings The National Basilica Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. is the largest church in the western hemisphere. The Byzantine structure rises high above the DC skyline, which ...