Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Sep 26 2018

Unconditional Love

Click here for daily readings We are loved unconditionally and I’m not sure that many of us understand the meaning of that. To be loved beyond our every sin, loved beyond our every expectation, loved far beyond our compre...

Sep 25 2018

Acting On The Word

Click here for daily readings “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it. Jeremiah, chapter 31:33 says “I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts.” Je...

Sep 24 2018

Let Your Light Shine A Little Brighter

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel is preceded in the liturgy by the Alleluia antiphon, which is a verse from the Gospel of Matthew: “Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds an...

Sep 23 2018

Old Fulfilled In The New

Click here for daily readings I’m almost 100% positive that every single one of my 6th-grade students can hear my voice when they dream shouting in excitement, “THE OLD IS FULFILLED IN THE NEW AND THE NEW IS HIDDEN I...

Sep 22 2018

Spiritual Superheroes

Click here for daily readings “So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown corruptible; it is raised incorruptible. It is sown dishonorable; it is raised glorious. It is sown weak; it is raised powerful. It is sown...

Sep 21 2018

Disciple: The Recovering Sinner

Click here for daily readings “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do… I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.” Matthew 9:12-13 A personal resolution I made at the beginni...

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...