Category Archives: Ordinary Time

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...

May 24 2018

Causing Scandal

Click here for daily readings On the internet there are a lot of jokes, tweets and memes that touch on the topic of cutting toxic people off. These social media commentaries are all about cutting bad friends, ex-boyfriends, etc....

May 23 2018

Words Matter

Click here for daily readings I have decided to start a campaign to reclaim the meaning of words. Adorable does not mean cute (I’ll get to that word later) and scandal does not mean worthy of a newspaper headline. The Cate...

May 22 2018

Two Minds, Fractured Heart

Click here for daily readings Beloved: “Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members? You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but ...

May 21 2018

Our Mother and Reason for Hope

Click here for daily readings Everyone needs a mother, and actually, everything needs a mother. Everything has a genesis, a backstory, a context. And very often when we really want to understand anything we try to look for the r...

May 20 2018

Have You Got Spirit?

Click here for daily readings How often do you hear this phrase? “Our team has spirit”; “Our class has spirit”; “I shopped at my school Spirit Store today and got the Spirit shirt!”. The &ldqu...

May 19 2018

Holy Spirit Come

Click here for daily readings The readings for today have been challenging me. My initial reaction to the first reading is, ugh, Paul imprisoned for a long time, yet a faithful witness. OK, really not the path I want to see myse...