Category Archives: Sr. Kathryn

Feb 08 2021

How Good is the Good God

Click here for daily readings In today’s readings, I can almost feel the excitement and the joy of God as he created the heavens and the earth “in the beginning.” We feel pride and satisfaction when we ...

Feb 02 2021

My Eyes Have Seen Your Salvation!

Click here for daily readings Today is the 25th anniversary of the day of prayer for women and men in consecrated life, instituted in 1997 by Pope Saint John Paul II. The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord is a beauti...

Jan 25 2021

Our Damascus Events

Click here for daily readings One of my favorite images of the Conversion of St. Paul is found in the Apostolic Palace and is pictured here. It was painted by Michelangelo between 1542 and 1546. January 25 is a big deal ...

Dec 31 2020

The Last Day. A Sacred Day.

Click here for daily readings 2020. The last day. A sacred day. A blessed memory of what has been, despite all, a year also blessed. The year when Jesus came. Comes. Will keep coming. Every day. Every hour. Every minute ...

Dec 27 2020

Thoughts About My Father…

Click here for daily readings Christmas, when you come down to it, is about family. When we look into our nativities at Christmas time, we see a family. We live in a family. The Father has invited us into the heart of th...

Dec 07 2020

The Way of the Redeemed

Click here for daily readings Both readings today could provoke us to ask ourselves the following questions: In what ways am I blind? In what situations am I deaf? How am I lame? In what way is my tongue mute? Isaiah pro...

Nov 28 2020

Cry out: Marana tha! Come, Lord Jesus!

Click here for daily readings Today is the last day of the liturgical year. For a whole year we have journeyed and struggled and wrestled and wondered and wandered with humanity as we have liturgically made our way from ...

Nov 09 2020

Carry Out the Mission You Are Charged With For the Building Up of the Church

Click here for daily readings Today is the feast of the Dedication of St John Lateran in Rome. The Lateran Basilica is called “mother and head of all the churches of the city and the world.” In fact, this bas...

Oct 29 2020

Grow Strong in the Lord

Click here for daily readings Finally, grow strong in the Lord, with the strength of his power. According to tradition, the Apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Ephesians while he was in prison in Rome (around ...

Oct 20 2020

God’s In-Pouring love

Click here for daily readings “Be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, ready to open the door as soon as he comes and knocks.” Weddings are wonderful events, celebrations whe...

Oct 02 2020

May The Angels Lead You Into Paradise

Click here for daily readings Today is the feast of the Guardian Angels. The first thing that comes to mind for me, and probably for you, is the famous image of an angel protecting a child as he or she walks across a bri...

Sep 30 2020

Before You Rest Your Head

Click here for daily readings “The Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head…” I don’t know about you but I am happy when I can lie down in my bed at night. I’m safe. I’m warm. I&...

Sep 24 2020

Seen by Jesus

Click here for daily readings “Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was greatly perplexed… …And he kept trying to see him.” This line always makes me chuckle. I understa...

Sep 08 2020

Do Not Be Afraid

Click here for daily readings “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid…” Right now I am afraid. Where I once had meaningful work, now I am in a liminal space where I can’t hide in what I do. The wo...

Aug 22 2020

Unless You Become As Little Children…

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel reading can be summed up in this warning: “Beware the paparazzi!” Of course, 99% of us aren’t that high profile that we have to worry about a crowd of p...

Jul 30 2020

The Lot Marked Out For Me Is My Delight

Click here for daily readings The lot marked out for me is my delight. This was a passage from Psalm 16 that was written on a piece of paper given to me in a meeting around the year 1996. For the past almost twenty-five years, ...

Feb 13 2020

We Can Always Gamble On God’s Mercy

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel gives hope to the heart of any parent, to any of us really. Any creature who is desperately in distress, as this woman was, can gamble on the mercy of God and win. This wo...

Jan 25 2020

Thank You, God, For In-Between Spaces

Click here for daily readings “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia… [I was] brought up… [I was] educated strictly in our ancestral law… I persecuted the Way to death…” Thus Paul tells hi...

Jan 15 2020

Here I am Lord: 4 Spiritual Lessons

Click here for daily readings A favorite memory of my younger years as a Daughter of St Paul is the diocesan catechetical conventions where we would meet hundreds and thousands of volunteers and teachers dedicated to educating t...

Dec 21 2019

Living Tabernacles

Click here for daily readings Mary set out in haste and traveled to the house of Zechariah, where she greeted Elizabeth. Let’s try that again: Mary, carrying within her the Son of God, set out in haste to bring Jesus to th...