Category Archives: Paul Fahey

Aug 29 2019

True Freedom

Click here for daily readings Today is the Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist. The Gospel recounts the story of this event, and in it, there are two men, King Herod, and John the Baptist, one of them imprisoned an...

Jul 31 2019

Destined for Radiance

Click here for daily readings The first reading today from Exodus describes a fascinating transformation that happened to Moses at Mt. Sinai. After conversing with God on the mountain, and whenever he spoke with God in the taber...

Jun 10 2019

Our Mother

Click here for daily readings In February of last year, Pope Francis gave the Church a new feast day. The day after Pentecost every year is now the memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. Cardinal Robert Sara...

May 21 2019

Our Father

Click here for daily readings For the past week, and up until just a couple days before Pentecost, the Gospel readings for daily Mass are from John’s recounting of the Last Supper. Here Jesus repeatedly speaks about, and p...

Feb 13 2019

The Breath of Life

Click here for daily readings In the first reading today we hear the second story of creation. Where the first story paints the big picture of creation, the second quickly focuses on mankind in the Garden of Eden. I want to high...

Jan 24 2019

God Wants Us to Suffer, A Pious Heresy

Click here for daily readings When I teach junior high classes about creation I usually draw a large circle on the whiteboard. I tell my class that this represents everything God created and I ask them to shout out the things th...

Dec 25 2018

The Unprecedented God

Click here for daily readings My oldest son, Simon, turned six earlier this month. I remember the afternoon we were getting ready to take him home from the hospital. I stood there holding him, absolutely terrified that the nurse...

Nov 29 2018

The Harlot and the Bride

Click here for daily readings In the first reading today, John describes the apocalyptic fall of the great city of Babylon. While there’s debate among Scripture scholars over whether John’s vision of Babylon represen...

Oct 31 2018

O Death, Where Is Your Victory?

Click here for daily readings Recently my five-year-old and four-year-old sons were having a discussion about how Jesus was born on Christmas and rose on Easter, and at one point they ask, “So what happened to Jesus on Hal...

Sep 04 2018

The Conquering Healer

Click here for daily readings One of my favorite books in high school was Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” There was one detail of the story in particular that intrigued me. Dracula, even though he was spectacularly po...

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 ...

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...

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...