Category Archives: Ordinary Time

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...

Sep 05 2021

Affliction Can Open Our Hearts to God

Click here for daily readings In our readings today, we have something that doesn’t happen every day: there is a clear theme running through all three readings and the Psalm. Each reading, in its own way, shows how ...

Sep 05 2021

Affliction Can Open Our Hearts to God

Click here for daily readings In our readings today, we have something that doesn’t happen every day: there is a clear theme running through all three readings and the Psalm. Each reading, in its own way, shows how ...

Sep 04 2021

God Must Come First

Click here for daily readings The First Reading for today is from Colossians, and it’s just one sentence long. But it’s a powerful and thought-provoking sentence. In part, it reads: “You once were aliena...

Sep 04 2021

God Must Come First

Click here for daily readings The First Reading for today is from Colossians, and it’s just one sentence long. But it’s a powerful and thought-provoking sentence. In part, it reads: “You once were aliena...

Sep 03 2021

Light of Life

Click here for daily readings Today is the memorial of Pope Saint Gregory the Great, and a doctor of the Church. I usually make a point of doing some research about the saint(s) of the day before beginning any writing, an...

Sep 02 2021

Being Present

Click here for daily readings Sometimes when I am reading through Scripture, a passage tends to fly off the page as if God printed it on a spiritual two by four and whacked me with it. That was certainly the case with th...

Sep 02 2021

Being Present

Click here for daily readings Sometimes when I am reading through Scripture, a passage tends to fly off the page as if God printed it on a spiritual two by four and whacked me with it. That was certainly the case with th...

Sep 01 2021

I Trust in the Mercy of God

Click here for daily readings I have many friends and acquaintances in the midst of a myriad of challenges in their lives. Honestly though, each of us has a whole lot of stuff going on in our lives. Isn’t that the c...

Aug 31 2021

All of You are Children of Light

Click here for daily readings What is Paul talking about when he speaks of some people who are “in darkness” and “of the night” while others are “children of the light and children of the da...

Aug 30 2021

Oh Fickle Human

Click here for daily readings How fickle human beings are! I know I have seen this behavior in my own actions, and I’m sure you have experienced it in your own as well. One moment everything is roses and the next w...

Aug 29 2021

First Fruit

Click here for daily readings Imagine “nothing.” In the beginning there was nothing. From nothing God brought into existence everything. When I try to imagine what nothing is, I envision complete darkness, but...

Aug 28 2021

Lend Your Talents to God’s Kingdom

Click here for daily readings The parable of the talents can sometimes be a difficult Gospel to wrap our heads around … but it doesn’t have to be. I think that some people can get hung up on the fact that this Gos...

Aug 27 2021

Radiant Grace

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel is a bit difficult to apply because we are so far removed from the cultural references – virgins? bridegroom? wedding feast? oil lamps? If the “wedding feast...

Aug 26 2021

Who Is Blameless?

Click here for daily readings In today’s letter to the Thessalonians, Paul tells us in the last line “to be blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our ...

Aug 25 2021

Inspecting Our Insides

Click here for daily readings Does your outside match your inside? Actions, as they say, speak far louder than words. We reveal so much more of ourselves by our behavior than from what we say. However, even if we sometimes...