Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Jun 12 2018

Saved By Grace

Click here for daily readings On my ankle, I have a tattoo that reads I>˅˄ and it stands for I AM (Yahweh/God) is greater (>) than my highs(^) and my lows (v). It reminds me that no matter where I am in my life, ...

Jun 11 2018

Blessed Are They

Click here for daily readings When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is th...

Jun 10 2018

How Did You Know You Were Naked?

Click here for daily readings God created us with a desire to be like Him. We have a tendency to confuse that innate wanting to be like God with a desire to be God. In the first reading, Adam and Eve disobeyed God. God created t...

Jun 09 2018

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Click here for daily readings Today the Church celebrates the obligatory Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so the sequential readings are set aside so that we can hear in the Gospel something about the Heart of Mary. The...

Jun 08 2018

The Heart of Jesus

Click here for daily readings Sometimes people in the Church speak about devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as goopy spirituality. I prefer to think of our different expressions of devotion as a matter of preference. Some peo...

Jun 07 2018

Pray for Ireland!

Click here for daily readings Much has been written about Mary, the young woman of Nazareth who said ‘’yes” to God. The gentle Mother who calls us to her Son, known by so many names–the Morning Star, Imma...

Jun 06 2018

Dependent on God

Click here for daily readings Pope Francis appears to to be pretty concerned with something called “Pelagianism.” He has made multiple references to it throughout his pontificate, including his new Apostolic Exhortat...

Jun 06 2018

Pray for Ireland!

Click here for daily readings Much has been written about Mary, the young woman of Nazareth who said ‘’yes” to God. The gentle Mother who calls us to her Son, known by so many names–the Morning Star, Imma...

Jun 05 2018

Don’t Believe the Lie

Click here for daily readings While praying with today’s readings, my mind kept being pulled to the following two lines in the Gospel: “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you are not concerned with...

Jun 04 2018

Stand on the Promise

Click here for daily readings Today, Peter writes a beautiful, uplifting and instructive letter, providing a road map of how to live your faith. These words are worthy of hanging on your bathroom mirror so you can read them each...

Jun 03 2018

Eucharistic Life

Click here for daily readings The feast of Corpus Christi in 1984 was also the date of my First Profession as a Daughter of St. Paul. Though St. Paul usually gets the honors with our usual date for professions being on his feas...

Jun 02 2018

Thirsting for God

Click here for daily readings Our family recently experienced the loss of a loved one. A joy-filled, faithful woman who gave a great portion of her time to guiding youth, helping people find jobs, aiding refugees and much, much...

Jun 01 2018

3 Simple Tips for Stewardship

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings are all about stewardship. I know, I know, it’s a big buzzword in the Church. It can mean anything from giving 10% of you money to the Church all the way to serving the...

May 31 2018

Happy Feast of the Visitation

Click here for daily readings Today we receive the blueprint for Marian devotion from the Gospel of Luke. Happy Feast of the Visitation from all of us here at Diocesan! Tommy ...

May 30 2018

God Delights in Me

Click here for daily readings Sometimes, the “key” to the Mass readings is found in the Antiphons. Today’s Entrance Antiphon invites us to see and receive our chosenness: “The Lord became my protector. H...

May 29 2018

Grace as Gift

Click here for daily readings Amazing! A whole reading on salvation and not a list of things for us to do to attain it. When a young woman enters religious life (which I did 40 years ago this year), she begins to organize her s...

May 28 2018

Look of Love

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel contains what may be the most reassuring words in all of Scripture. A young man has run up to Jesus to ask him a question about the demands of discipleship. After Jesus reminds...

May 27 2018

Hope In Suffering

Click here for daily readings Today is Trinity Sunday and the readings today make me recall all that God has brought me through in the past year: my OCD diagnosis, my doubts and fears of life transitions he has brought my way, ...

May 26 2018

Like Children Before God

Click here for daily readings What kind of man is this, who speaks with authority yet is so approachable that the young mothers and children come near to be touched and blessed by him? This is no stern and critical Rabbi, judgin...

May 25 2018

Be Fair, Be Safe, Be Kind

Click here for daily readings “Do not complain, brothers and sisters, about one another, that you may not be judged.” (James 5:9) The first line of today’s first reading hit me like a rock right between the eye...