Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Feb 12 2021

He Has Done All Things Well

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel we hear of the compassion of Christ once again. A man who is deaf and has a speech impediment is brought to Christ and, moved with compassion, Christ heals him. Perhap...

Feb 11 2021

Healing

Click here for daily readings Healing is again the focus in the Gospel today. Jesus heals all with no exceptions to the understood or unwritten norms and social concepts of the time. In his Monday address to the ambass...

Feb 10 2021

The Good From Within

Click here for daily readings “Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile” (Mark 7:15). These words, powerful words of Christ Jesus, s...

Feb 09 2021

Empty Rituals

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, Jesus reprimands the Pharisees for their criticism of the Apostles not properly washing their hands before their meal. Jesus is not necessarily saying that the ritual...

Feb 08 2021

How Good is the Good God

Click here for daily readings In today’s readings, I can almost feel the excitement and the joy of God as he created the heavens and the earth “in the beginning.” We feel pride and satisfaction when we ...

Feb 07 2021

Life is a Drudgery

Click here for daily readings Wow, so the First Reading from today is pretty depressing, huh? Just the words we need to shock us out of any sadness or anxiety that we may be dealing with. As a classic optimist, I was tem...

Feb 06 2021

Moved with Pity

Click here for daily readings “When He disembarked and saw the vast crowd, His heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things.” Mar...

Feb 05 2021

Leading Others to Christ

Click here for daily readings The First Reading, a letter to Hebrews, reminds us of the importance of our Christian witness. The Holy Scripture reminds us to always welcome strangers, keep others in mind and hold up a mo...

Feb 04 2021

Sent on Mission

Click here for daily readings Take only a walking stick and sandals. I’ll be honest, I don’t know if I could do it! Jesus thinks of everything I would try to stuff in my pockets or layer up so I had some ment...

Feb 03 2021

Our Tangible Faith

Click here for daily readings Today is the feast of St. Blaise. Many will find themselves driving to church to seek the traditional blessing of the throats. Two candles tied together with a ribbon somehow give us comfort ...

Feb 02 2021

My Eyes Have Seen Your Salvation!

Click here for daily readings Today is the 25th anniversary of the day of prayer for women and men in consecrated life, instituted in 1997 by Pope Saint John Paul II. The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord is a beauti...

Feb 01 2021

Take Comfort

Click here for daily readings It’s St. Brigid’s feast day in Ireland and the first day of spring, too. I’m a third generation immigrant. This means I have two U.S.-born parents but at least one foreign-...

Jan 31 2021

Take Care—No, Really

Click here for daily readings I live on Cape Cod, where many of the old ships’ captain’s houses have been converted into inns. A couple of years ago a friend of mine, who owned one of them, told me in some di...

Jan 30 2021

He Cares

Click here for daily readings “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” When we read these words in the Gospel it’s easy to think that the apostles are acting ridiculous. “Of course he cares!&rdqu...

Jan 29 2021

Finding Hope in Suffering

Click here for daily readings It is said that the only two constants in life are death and taxes. I would add a third to this list – suffering. Suffering is a natural part of human life. We all suffer at some point...

Jan 28 2021

Light is Meant to Shine

Click here for daily reading Today is the memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas, a great saint and a Doctor of the Church. As most of us already know, Aquinas is a giant in the Catholic theological and philosophical sphere. He...

Jan 27 2021

Does Jesus Hold Back?

Click here for daily readings What a wonderful way to start the day by remembering Angela Merici. She was a very special lady that lived in the 16th century. She was born in Italy and was orphaned at an early age and was ...

Jan 26 2021

Our Families and God’s Family

Click here for daily readings Families are messy. From the outside, a family can appear ideal but underneath it all, every family, even the one that seems perfect, has issues by virtue of the fact that all families are co...

Jan 25 2021

Our Damascus Events

Click here for daily readings One of my favorite images of the Conversion of St. Paul is found in the Apostolic Palace and is pictured here. It was painted by Michelangelo between 1542 and 1546. January 25 is a big deal ...

Jan 24 2021

Teach Me Your Ways, O Lord

Click here for daily readings In this Sunday’s readings, three particular lines stand out to me. In the First Reading, “Teach me your ways, O Lord.” Too commonly do we rely on our own understandin...