Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Jun 01 2021

The Mysteries of God’s Sacred Heart

Click here for daily readings Have you ever heard the song “Blessings” by Laura Story? It beautifully depicts one of the greatest paradoxes of the Christian life. “ ’Cause what if your blessi...

May 31 2021

Blessed are you who believe!

Click here for daily readings Promises! Elizabeth said to Mary, “Blessed are you for believing that what was promised to you would be fulfilled.” Those words could be repeated to Mary at the foot of the cross...

May 30 2021

Embracing the Great Commission

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, Jesus can be found giving His final instructions to the apostles before His Ascension. This is their great commissioning. Jesus has prepared them to continue His miss...

May 29 2021

Swimming Upstream

Click here for daily readings I think it’s interesting that as a practicing Catholic I am counter-cultural. It’s not a label I expected to be slapped to my shoulders. In today’s Responsorial Psalm I&rsqu...

May 28 2021

The Lord Delights in His People

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings are rich in imagery: ancestors, godly men, virtues, the Lord delighting in his people, bearing fruit, the withered fig tree, the temple area comotion, faith in God, pra...

May 27 2021

Eye on the Prize

Click here for daily readings The story of Bartimaeus is echoed in both Matthew and Luke’s Gospel. This image of Jesus healing a blind man (or in Matthew’s case two blind men) is of critical importance for th...

May 26 2021

Want To Be First?

Click here for daily readings I really wanted to talk about Sirach today. He beseeches the Lord to pour out his grace and blessings upon all his servants. In a way, this is our daily prayer. As you know, his mercy is ever...

May 25 2021

What Will I Leave Behind to Follow Christ

Click here for daily readings I have a lot of crazy things to bemoan. Most were embarrassing or even downright stupid: such as smoking, swearing, skipping school, driving too fast, bullying the poor boy that sat in front ...

May 24 2021

Mother of the Church

Click here for daily reading Today we celebrate the Memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church. Our Lady, as the woman through whom the Lord came into the world, sits as Queen of the Church, continuing to mediate His graces. ...

Feb 16 2021

Are The Waters Rising?

Click here for daily readings There’s a moment that strikes at every parent’s heart: the moment where your kid does something wrong, thoughtless, selfish. We try and try and try to help our kids become caring...

Feb 15 2021

Choices

Click here for daily readings Today’s First Reading is pretty intense. The story of Cain and Abel is littered with sins large and small, and worse, the Bible is just getting started! But one of the lessons here is that lif...

Feb 14 2021

Be Made Clean

Click here for daily readings In the Gospel reading for this Sunday, we see a leper approach Jesus for healing. First of all, whoa! Since we know Jesus, and this is His usual thing, we might forget just how big of a deal...

Feb 13 2021

Why Lent? Why the Cross?

Click here for daily readings Don’t look now but Ash Wednesday is around the corner. Are you ready for Lent? My guess is that there are some of us still scrambling to decide what it is we will give up for Lent. Whi...

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...