Category Archives: Sr. Kathryn

Feb 26 2022

Called To Be A Compelling Sign Of Hope

Click here for daily readings Everyone knows the proverb “It takes a village to raise a child.” It means that children need an entire community of people providing for them and engaging them constructively for...

Feb 19 2022

You are God’s divinely-loved-ones

Click here for daily readings The word that leaped from the page of my Missal this morning was the word “Beloved.” When Jesus is transfigured on the mountain before the three apostles Peter, James, and John, t...

Jan 31 2022

No One Sees ME

Click here for daily readings I wonder what the man dwelling among the tombs with an unclean spirit experienced on the “inside.” We know how other people experienced him: he was a scary, out of control, posses...

Jan 19 2022

Who has the power?

Click here for daily readings Two important questions: Who has the power? Who speaks for God? Today’s First Reading and Gospel gave me great pause. They forced me to think about two questions that are as important t...

Dec 31 2021

In 2022 God Will Never Stop Loving You

Click here for daily readings Today we stand on the threshold of 2022, breathing a sigh of relief that we are another few months through the general crisis that the world is collectively living. …the li...

Dec 20 2021

Mary’s Yes and My Yes

Click here for daily readings In five days we will be celebrating Christmas and even in these final days of Advent many are already attending Christmas parties and rejoicing with the “joy of the season.” Once ...

Nov 30 2021

Beautiful Feet: They Could Be Yours

Click here for daily readings In today’s First Reading St. Paul refers to a verse from the great prophet who accompanies us through every Advent: the prophet Isaiah (flourished 8th century B.C., Jerusalem): How...

Nov 29 2021

No Shortage on Jesus This Christmas

Click here for daily readings Yesterday the haunting verses of O Come, O Come Emmanuel were a welcome massage for my heart. Since early October we’ve been warned of supply chain shortages and inflation that threate...

Oct 30 2021

The Guest who Waits for an Invitation

Click here for daily readings “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, go and take the lowest place….” Jesus is inviting you and me into the pattern of his own humility. The Son of the Fa...

Oct 20 2021

Being Prepared

Click here for daily readings “You also must be prepared for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” Spending five months recently in my parents’ apartment as a caregiver has given me a...

Oct 18 2021

We Belong To The Lamb Who Was Slain

Click here for daily readings Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves…. Lambs among wolves. The image is frightening. I ask myself, “Why lambs?” There are plenty of other vulne...

Aug 31 2021

All of You are Children of Light

Click here for daily readings What is Paul talking about when he speaks of some people who are “in darkness” and “of the night” while others are “children of the light and children of the da...

Jul 01 2021

A Question You Should Never Ask

Click here for daily readings The Pharisees saw Jesus eating with the tax collectors and sinners in Matthew’s house, in the house of the man Jesus had chosen, called, loved, and they asked the question, “Why ...

Jun 22 2021

When God Asks You To Uproot Your Life

Click here for daily readings The invitation to Abram to uproot his life—a life he knew, a life he had built, a life that had security guaranteed, a life surrounded by his things, his people, his culture—is t...

Jun 09 2021

Keeping the Commandments: A Matter of the Heart

Click here for daily readings Keeping the commandments. It is something that children wrestle with as they prepare for their First Penance. Do you remember that first time you had to examine your conscience? Later this t...

May 31 2021

Blessed are you who believe!

Click here for daily readings Promises! Elizabeth said to Mary, “Blessed are you for believing that what was promised to you would be fulfilled.” Those words could be repeated to Mary at the foot of the cross...

Apr 18 2021

Take your troubles to the Risen One

Click here for daily readings A long year has sputtered out during the holy season of Lent. Conflicting messages about the end or the resurgence of the pandemic… Life-changes and unexpected transitions… Wor...

Apr 07 2021

What Calvary are you walking away from?

Click here for daily readings Emmaus. One of the Easter stories of the risen Jesus appearing to his beloved followers. It has the fresh breeze of a spring morning: “that very day, the first day of the week.” ...

Mar 19 2021

Joseph Moments

Click here for daily readings Today is the Solemnity of St Joseph, the husband of Mary, the man who is called “just.” To call a person “just,” is like saying “he who is virtuous in all thing...

Mar 12 2021

God has never given up on us and never will

Click here for daily readings Hosea represents the heart of salvation history. Despite our wanderings and wailings and wonderings, even after our fickleness, our refusals and our settled decisions to do things our way or...