Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Jul 08 2018

Have Faith

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Jul 06 2018

Hear This, You Who Trample Upon The Poor!

I double booked for today and I wanted to make sure to send this great article on caring for all people, especially the poor and marginalized. Please also take a second to fill out our SURVEY to let us know how you are liking Inspiration Daily...

Jul 06 2018

Giving All We Have

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings are what everyone worries about: money. “Do we have enough to …” “Should we donate to this group or that?” “How will the government’...

Jul 05 2018

Your Sins Are Forgiven

Click here for daily readings “Your sins are forgiven”. Four words that are so very powerful. These words give me such peace when the priest confessor says them to me as I receive a blessing at the close of each and ...

Jul 04 2018

We Belong to God Alone

Click here for daily readings Today is an exceptional day in the history of America. Many, many things come to mind in commemorating our independence as a nation that did not exist until 1776. Our history is not as extensive as ...

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...