Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Sep 25 2021

Guarded by the Shepherd

Click here for daily readings Today’s Responsorial Psalm is, “The Lord will guard us as a shepherd guards his flock.” To more completely recognize the beauty, reassurance, and power of this promise, it m...

Sep 24 2021

God Fights for Us

Click here for daily readings The Responsorial Psalm for today talks about hope in the Lord. It implores: “Do me justice, O God, and fight my fight against a faithless people.” It seems our world today is full...

Sep 23 2021

Consider Your Ways

Click here for daily readings Today is the feast of St. Pius of Pietrelcina better known as Padre Pio. The First Reading from Haggai today is quite fitting as Padre Pio was known for the gift of inspired listening while i...

Sep 22 2021

The Lord Provides

Click here for daily readings I love the Gospel passages when Jesus summons the Twelve apostles, gives them their mission and sends them forth. Maybe it’s because I work for the Church and can easily see myself in their ...

Sep 21 2021

Get Up

Click here for daily readings Getting up can be difficult – getting up in the morning, getting up from the couch, getting up to help someone. I like sitting down myself. Getting up is a big change; a change of post...

Sep 20 2021

Let Your Light Shine!

Click here for daily readings Like literally millions of other Christians, I have been listening to Father Mike Schmitz’s Bible in a Year podcast regularly since January 1, 2021. Recently we spent weeks on the Exile...

Sep 19 2021

Putting the Gospel into Practice

Click here for daily readings Last. Who wants to be last? When I was in elementary school, I was not very athletic; well, that hasn’t changed much to be honest. At any rate, when it was time for games in the schooly...

Sep 18 2021

Open My Heart

Click here for daily readings How can I open myself more to love? Love for others, in place of love for self. It is our natural instinct, after all, to follow our flawed nature of sinfulness. Day after day I know I strug...

Sep 17 2021

Poor in Spirit

Click here for daily readings “Like billowing clouds, like the incessant gurgling of the brook, the longing of the spirit can never be stilled”. (St. Hildegard of Bingen) I love this group of readings! Especia...

Sep 16 2021

Let Us Adore Him, Christ the Lord

Click here for daily readings The Gospel reading today is powerful and touching. A sinful woman, recognizing her sinfulness, ministers to Jesus by washing his feet with her tears, drying them with her hair, anointing the...

Sep 15 2021

The Extra Button

Click here for daily readings Today, during my morning prayers, the thought of the “extra button” on shirts kept popping into my head. Then, while reading the Gospel, I had this epiphany moment of the extra bu...

Sep 14 2021

Exaltation Of The Holy Cross

Click here for daily readings True story: the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine, St. Helena, went to Jerusalem in search of the actual places in Jesus’ life. In the process, she had the Temple of Aphrodite to...

Sep 13 2021

What It Means To Be A Centurion

Click here for daily readings The Catholic grade school I attended had a bit of an unusual nickname: the Centurion. As a young child, I didn’t understand the significance of such a nickname. (It didn’t get much eas...

Sep 12 2021

Convicted

Click here for daily readings “If you were accused of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?” I have often considered this question since I first heard it many years ago. Some...

Sep 11 2021

Producing Good

Click here for daily readings In the Gospel reading today, we hear a very fitting line for 9/11: “A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil prod...

Sep 10 2021

In Training

Click here for daily readings I remember as a child thinking to myself whenever I heard this reading, “Someday, I’ll be just like my mom and dad and be able to make my own decisions. They won’t be able ...

Sep 09 2021

Reflect Love and Mercy

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings are full of instructions on how to live and love and be rewarded. St. Paul starts by giving us a list of virtues he invites us to “put on” and then cover th...

Sep 08 2021

The Birth of Our Mother

Click here for daily readings “Let everything, mundane things and those above, join in festive celebration. Today this created world is raised to the dignity of a holy place for him who made all things. The creature...

Sep 07 2021

This Or That?

Click here for daily readings When most of us are trying to make a decision, we focus on which option will bring us the most satisfaction. Will this make my life easier, help me feel better about myself, fit into my sche...

Sep 06 2021

Suffering for Christ

Click here for daily readings The First Reading today seems to make the bold claim that somehow the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus was not enough for the sins of mankind. Of course, this is not what St. Paul...