Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Aug 24 2018

To Be Without Guile

Click here for daily readings Do you know what it is to be without guile? I’ll give you a minute to look it up if you don’t know. (Tick, tick, tick…) Ok. Times up. Today is the feast day of St. Bartholomew the...

Aug 23 2018

Invitation To The Wedding Feast

Click here for daily readings As I prayed with today’s readings I kept going back to the kingdom of heaven being similar to a wedding feast for a king’s son, like in the gospel and the first reading when the Lord say...

Aug 22 2018

Laborers In The Vineyard

Click here for daily readings This Gospel of the laborers in the vineyard is probably one of the hardest for us to understand. It goes against the grain of our modern mentality, with our fair wage laws and beliefs that those who...

Aug 21 2018

I Have To Give Everything?

Click here for daily readings “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who ...

Aug 20 2018

The Gift Of Grace

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel stands out as one of my favorites. We hear the story of the man who wants to gain eternal life and he asks Jesus what he must do. It’s important to remember here that Jesu...

Aug 19 2018

Friends Don’t Let Friends Go To Hell

Click here for daily readings Accountability: Adjective (Of a person, organization, or institution) required or expected to justify actions or decisions; responsible. Explicable; understandable Personally, I hate being cal...

Aug 18 2018

Nurturing God’s Love

Click here for daily readings It was really hard to write today’s Inspiration Daily. I cannot deny that high tensions surround anything calling out directly, or even indirectly, the fact that racism, violence, sexism/misog...

Aug 17 2018

Sanctity Of Marriage, Gift Of Vocations

Click here for daily readings Several years ago, I had the privilege being the Director of Family Life in a Diocese down south. The role primarily entailed helping engaged couples prepare for marriage and screening married coupl...

Aug 16 2018

Forgiveness Without Conditions

Click here for daily readings For most people, forgiveness has conditions. I’ll forgive if someone apologizes to me, or if they do something to somehow “make it up” to me. I’ll forgive if they take the fi...

Aug 15 2018

Happy Feast Of The Assumption

Click here for daily readings Happy Feast of the Assumption from all of us here at Diocesan. Mary was constantly present to Jesus as His mother. I like to think about home life growing up for Jesus. He had a Mother and Father wh...

Aug 15 2018

Out Of Whack

Click here for daily readings “Then another sign appeared in the sky; it was a huge red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on its head were seven diadems. Its tail swept away a third of the stars of the sky.&rdquo...

Aug 14 2018

The Supernatural Vision Of Fr. Kolbe

Click here for daily readings I believe it was sometime in June when I signed up to write the reflection on this particular day. To be honest, I wasn’t really paying attention to what the readings were or the feast day, I ...

Aug 13 2018

So As Not To Offend

Click here for daily readings “So as not to offend” is a loaded statement. It can be used in hundreds of situations, and sometimes is meant to keep us from correcting people or from saying things that will seem put-o...

Aug 12 2018

What Is Living Bread?

Click here for daily readings John 6 is dense with meaning, and the Church breaks out the reading of it over several Sundays. It begins with Jesus feeding more than 5,000 with a few loaves and fishes and then quietly ...

Aug 11 2018

Faith Like A Mustard Seed

Click here for daily readings The gospel today has Jesus saying, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you?” (Mt 17:17). He’s addressing the disciples who wer...

Aug 10 2018

Thank God It’s Friday!

Click here for daily readings Today is finally Friday! If you’re like me, you’ve been looking forward to this day all week. I have plans to take a six-hour road trip to visit my cousins, but maybe you’re lookin...

Aug 09 2018

Get Behind Me Satan

Click here for daily readings As I reflected on today’s readings I began to realize all the times I have had to tell myself to get behind me satan. I know even the way that sentence was phrased sounds strange, but hear me ...

Aug 08 2018

Respond To The Suffering Near

Click here for daily readings There are a handful of times when I remember God made his plan pretty clear to me. The first time was when I was on my eighth grade confirmation retreat. The retreat leader, Tony Bellizzi, led us th...

Aug 07 2018

Do We Get The Message?

Click here for daily readings Today’s short Gospel seems simple, but it is packed full; we should take it one step at a time so nothing is missed. First, we note that it is the disciples of John the Baptist who are asking ...

Aug 06 2018

Preaching The Transfiguration

Click here for daily readings The Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord is not a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church. It is, however, written about in all three synoptic gospels: Matthew 17:1-8, Mark 9:2-9 and Luke ...