Category Archives: Ordinary Time

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...

Sep 17 2018

Communion And Unity

Click here for daily readings Amen! Amen, hallelujah! Today’s first reading literally had me nodding my head and saying, “that’s right” as I was reading it. I mean the letters to the Corinthians were writ...

Sep 15 2018

Our Lady Of Sorrows

Click here for daily readings “‘Woman, behold, your son.’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Behold your mother.'” Biblical historians generally agree on which disciple this was of the twelve. Yet, he i...

Sep 14 2018

The Triumph Of The Cross

Click here for daily readings The cross. The Triumph of the Cross. The hymns sung at Mass today will be triumphant, glorious, majestic. Triumph. For a minute we might forget the reality of our crosses as we focus on the meaning ...

Sep 13 2018

Fully Known, Fully Loved

Click here for daily readings “O LORD, you have probed me and you know me.” Today’s readings bring a wave of peace, acceptance, and intimacy over me. My mind wanders to all the ways our world tries to hide.&nb...

Sep 12 2018

The Fitness Plan

Click here for daily readings The Gospel is calling us to choose suffering so we can be detached from creation and be more like our Creator, Love, and inherit eternal life. I used to think and hope that heaven was just a divine ...

Sep 11 2018

A Few Good Men And Women

Click here for daily readings “Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When the day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them, he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apos...

Sep 10 2018

Compassionate Like Our Lord

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings speak about following the light. We are called to clear out our boastful, prideful, wicked, immoral, malicious ways (yes, all of these in the reading from 1 Cor 5) so that we ...

Sep 09 2018

Personal Faith

Click here for daily readings Jesus is preaching and healing in Gentile cities, areas that are contemptible to the Jews. He has already offered the Gospel to Israel, and now he is bringing his glorious Good News to those “...

Sep 08 2018

A Humble Strength

Click here for daily readings I have always had a deep devotion to my confirmation saint, St. Joseph. We know very little about St. Joseph, but in today’s readings, we hear some of the only written accounts of this gr...

Sep 07 2018

Changed For Good

Click here for daily readings Change is hard. Change means switching things up and usually, it means no longer doing what is easy or comfortable. Then again, change can be easy if the ultimate reason is worth it. A coach I had i...

Sep 06 2018

Trust In Him

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel from Luke has so much activity that it can be hard to see beyond the surface: the lake, the boats, the crowd, the nets, the catch, and finally, the fishermen leaving their fishi...

Sep 05 2018

Worth and Reliance

Click here for daily readings I have always struggled with humility. I think it is because I am such a positive person and for a long time I saw humility as putting ourselves down; we are just measly worms who can do nothing rig...

Sep 04 2018

The Conquering Healer

Click here for daily readings One of my favorite books in high school was Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” There was one detail of the story in particular that intrigued me. Dracula, even though he was spectacularly po...

Sep 03 2018

Openly Humble

Click here for daily readings “I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling, and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power, so that your ...

Sep 02 2018

Beyond The Law

Click here for daily readings In today’s beautiful readings we see Jesus rebuking the Pharisees for following the letter of the law solely for the sake of the law instead of understanding the more profound point, rela...

Sep 01 2018

Francis, Reformer Of The Church

Click here for daily readings “…God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong,…” 1 Cor 1:27 The readings today are very timely to help address...

Aug 31 2018

His Weakness

Click here for daily readings “The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.” -G.K. Chesterton The first reading is quite the encounter with Christ: explicit yet enigmatic, demanding yet alluring. I frequently go to...