Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Oct 09 2018

The Better Part

Click here for daily readings Today’s brief Gospel presents a scene that most of us can relate to on some level. We know that Mary and Martha are sisters (and Lazarus is their brother) and that this family is one of those ...

Oct 08 2018

Be Available, Be Generous

Click here for daily readings The Good Samaritan; a difficult story to reflect upon without being banal and writing a thought that has been shared before. This is a story that is so integrated into our society that we even have ...

Oct 07 2018

Acts Of Random Kindness

Click here for daily readings My Catholic faith has taught me more than any teacher, parent, or person ever has! Aside from the obvious “good morals,” Catholicism has taught me the value of family and friendship. It ...

Oct 05 2018

Knowing Vs. Inviting

Click here for daily readings Kyra, my new student in 6th grade has never even heard about Jesus. We’re in the middle of the first quarter, Catholic Doctrine curriculum for a 6th-grade level (assuming all others have built...

Oct 04 2018

The Memorial Of St. Francis Of Assisi

Click here for daily readings The readings today are so so fitting as we celebrate the memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francis, like Job in the first reading, had a privileged life, both being from upper-middle-class ...

Oct 03 2018

Beauty And The Beast And Our Catholic Faith

Click here for daily readings “I consider all things rubbish that I may gain Christ and be found in him.” You know how sometimes someone says something or makes a new connection for you and not only does a light bul...

Oct 02 2018

Childlike Faith

Click here for daily readings “Unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of heaven.” -MT 18 A child is a perfect example of living in the world but not of the world. They often have thi...

Oct 01 2018

True Faith

Click here for daily readings “The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD!” What is Faith? The dictionary defines it several ways. Some say complete trust in another. Others say a bel...

Sep 30 2018

Trustworthiness

Click here for daily readings Growing up in an Italian family, there are certain phrases or loud words of advice I should say, that are engraved in my mind. Of course, if I’m telling you that I’m Italian, I have to l...

Sep 28 2018

The Truth Of The Incarnation

Click here for daily readings “Jesus was praying in solitude.” Luke 9:18 We hear these words in the Gospel, and they can quickly fly by us like a falling leaf during the fall months, without much awareness. But these...

Sep 27 2018

Renewing Our Commitment

Click here for daily readings I have wondered if Herod was haunted by his past, much like the murderer in the Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe; the murderer seems to hear his victim (which eventually gives him away), and Herod...

Sep 26 2018

Unconditional Love

Click here for daily readings We are loved unconditionally and I’m not sure that many of us understand the meaning of that. To be loved beyond our every sin, loved beyond our every expectation, loved far beyond our compre...

Sep 25 2018

Acting On The Word

Click here for daily readings “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it. Jeremiah, chapter 31:33 says “I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts.” Je...

Sep 24 2018

Let Your Light Shine A Little Brighter

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel is preceded in the liturgy by the Alleluia antiphon, which is a verse from the Gospel of Matthew: “Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds an...

Sep 23 2018

Old Fulfilled In The New

Click here for daily readings I’m almost 100% positive that every single one of my 6th-grade students can hear my voice when they dream shouting in excitement, “THE OLD IS FULFILLED IN THE NEW AND THE NEW IS HIDDEN I...

Sep 22 2018

Spiritual Superheroes

Click here for daily readings “So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown corruptible; it is raised incorruptible. It is sown dishonorable; it is raised glorious. It is sown weak; it is raised powerful. It is sown...

Sep 21 2018

Disciple: The Recovering Sinner

Click here for daily readings “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do… I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.” Matthew 9:12-13 A personal resolution I made at the beginni...

Sep 20 2018

When Forgetting Something Is A Good Thing

Click here for daily readings He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.“ The others at table said to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” But he said to the woman “Your faith has sa...

Sep 19 2018

Love Is Kind

Click here for daily readings Love is patient, love is kind. Love is not jealous, love is not pompous… It bears all things, believes all things, Hopes all things, endures all things…. My love? Not. Why is it that w...

Sep 18 2018

The Power Of The Great Prophet

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel presents an interesting scene: Jesus is traveling with his disciples and “a large crowd.” As they near the city of Nain, they encounter another “large crowd&rd...