Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Jul 03 2018

One Nation Under God

Click here for daily readings This week, I cried for our world. I watch the news, I follow social media, I talk with coworkers, so I am painfully aware of our world’s struggle. I am aware of the situation happening to immi...

Jul 02 2018

Think of God

Click here for daily readings Does it ever scare you how easily it is to fall into bad habits? Reading about some of the transgressions of the time in the Book of Amos today, I realize once again how alive and applicable Scriptu...

Jun 30 2018

Miracles are Real

Click here for daily readings I am an extreme optimist, or maybe optimist is already an extreme? I could be on a sinking cruise ship and be thankful that I will get to see the 80% of the ocean that we have not yet explored. Ok, ...

Jun 29 2018

Conversions Woven Throughout Life

Click here for daily readings On this feast day of St. Peter and St. Paul I look back upon the journey the Lord has led me on and where He has me going. It seems like my life has been filled with conversions; some conversions ve...

Jun 28 2018

Exile and Return

Click here for daily readings Earlier this week at daily Mass we began hearing readings from the second Book of Kings. We’re being introduced to ancient kings from Assyria and Babylon who have one intent: to overthrow the ...

Jun 27 2018

Remain in Me

Click here for daily readings “Teach me the way of your decrees, O Lord”, is the responsorial psalm for today. I don’t know about you, but I need this constant reminder. I must focus on the decrees of the Lord ...

Jun 26 2018

Trust in the Lord

Click here for daily readings Imagine you are an ancient king, responsible for a vast area and the lives of many people. Neighboring kings have joined forces and are destroying nearby kingdoms, and now send the message that you ...

Jun 25 2018

Called to Proclaim

Click here for daily readings I recently attended a Steubenville Adult Conference in which a speaker took the stage and gave an extremely vocal, Catholic rally call. He shouted and asked us to loudly repeat after him. At first, ...

Jun 24 2018

Forerunner of Christ

Click here for daily readings Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist and on August 29 the Memorial of his Passion, a requiem of sorts of his decapitation. Yes, as gory as that sounds we celebrate th...

Jun 23 2018

The Real Cure for Stress

Click here for daily readings Stress. There cannot be one person reading this who hasn’t experienced it as a major factor in their lives. We’re all stressed, it seems, from the moment we get up in the mornings until ...

Jun 22 2018

Treasures of Heaven

Click here for daily readings Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither ...

Jun 21 2018

Our Father

Click here for daily readings The Catechism of the Catholic Church ends with a study of the Lord’s Prayer and the final paragraph of that last section is: “By the final ‘Amen,’ we express our ‘fiat&...

Jun 20 2018

With an Eye to Eternity

Click here for daily readings How often have you, as I have, looked to human praise? How often have we manipulated someone, or some situation, looking for affirmation of our deeds? I am as guilty as the next person, doing or say...

Jun 19 2018

Love One Another

Click here for daily readings The verse announcing the Gospel today is crystal clear: “I give you a new commandment; love one another as I have loved you”. John 13:34 So why is it that I have said, &ldqu...

Jun 18 2018

A Lamp To My Feet – A Light To My Path

Click here for daily readings In ancient pagan ceremonies, the lighted candles on Candlemas day had many meanings, one of which was to mark the middle of winter, looking forward to the coming of spring. In the traditions o...

Jun 17 2018

Constant Conversion

Click here for daily readings Someone once asked my friend, “If your boat sank and you could only save one of your parents, which one would you save?” Without hesitation, she answered, “My dad.” Everyone ...

Jun 16 2018

Jesus is the New Way

Click here for daily readings Jesus is intent on making clear that what he brings to the world is the fulfillment of the Old Law. The Old Law was good, and it drew hearts that were open into the truth, but there was more to come...

Jun 15 2018

Why Are You Here?

Click here for daily readings “Elijah, why are you here?” That’s the question the voice of the Lord poses to the Old Testament prophet in our first reading today from the First Book of Kings (19:9a, 11-16). Eli...

Jun 14 2018

Journey with Faith

Click here for daily readings After reading an article written by a former potato farmer, I was reminded of a movie I watched several years ago entitled “Faith Like Potatoes”. The films depicts a struggling family wi...

Jun 13 2018

The Power of God

Click here for daily readings “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.” Matthew 22:29 This verse from Matthew coupled with the first readin...