Category Archives: Sr. Kathryn

Dec 19 2019

How Can I Know This?

Click here for daily readings Zechariah. Elderly. Devoted. Righteous. Carefully carrying out his priestly duty, entering the sanctuary to burn incense. Focused on his duties… I’m chuckling to myself as I think of it...

Nov 21 2019

Hope and Action

Click here for daily readings It’s the end of the liturgical year with its amazing readings that remind us of three things: 1) God has a purpose that unfolds in history; 2) individuals, groups and nations can thwart that p...

Oct 31 2019

If God Is For Us, Who Can Be Against Us?

Click here for daily readings “What comes into our mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” (A. W. Tozer) The first sentence in today’s second reading would be enough. Because the rea...

Oct 24 2019

An Eternal Choice

Click here for daily readings Psalm 1 always makes me think of Sr. Mary Augusta. For a number of years I sat next to Sr. Augusta in chapel and assisted her with finding the pages for community prayer in the Liturgy of the Hours....

Sep 24 2019

Life’s Humbling Actions

Click here for daily readings I recently saw on my Facebook wall a quote which read: “The older you get, the quieter you become. Life humbles you so deeply as you age. You realize how much nonsense you’ve wasted time...

Aug 31 2019

Good and Faithful Servant

Click here for daily readings “Well done, my good and faithful servant.” “You wicked, lazy servant.” Secretly I hope one day to hear the first sentence addressed to me by God and not the second. An...

Aug 28 2019

Feast of St. Augustine

Click here for daily readings My friends, today on the memorial of St Augustine, the Church has given us readings in the Liturgy and in the Office of Readings that focus on the amazing attraction of Jesus on our souls. St Paul...

Jul 29 2019

Have Eyes Only For Jesus

Click here for daily readings Much ink has been spilled around Jesus’ words to Martha: “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing.” Does this mean the contem...

Jul 26 2019

Sanctify Your Mind

Click here for daily readings Your words, Lord, are more precious than gold. “Yes, Lord, we agree, we wholeheartedly accept that first reading today…the commandments you have delivered through Moses. Why? Because yo...

Jun 21 2019

The greatest treasure my dad would never let go of

Click here for daily readings Recently I spent a week cleaning out my parents’ house with them so it could be put on the market. Typical of any family home that had been lived in for over 50 years, we had to deal with the...

Feb 25 2019

The Bridge between God’s Gracious Giving and our Fearful Hoping

Click here for daily readings Lavish generosity and awe-inspiring majesty. The first reading from the book of Sirach offers a view of eternal wisdom that is poured forth without restraint upon all the Lord’s works, “...

Feb 18 2019

May Everything In Me Honor You

Click here for daily readings In our readings today, we look in on different people who present themselves before the Lord: Cain and Abel in the First Reading from Genesis, and, in the Gospel, the Pharisees who come forward and ...

Jan 31 2019

Persecution- A Price Worth Paying

Click here for daily readings Three brightly colored threads have woven their way into my spiritual life in this past month. First thread. Persecution. News reports that Chinese Christians are bracing themselves for persecution....

Jan 25 2019

What Most People Miss About Life’s Journey

Click here for daily readings I need to admit to you that I was thinking about this Gospel commentary on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany. The month of January opens with the wise men making their way to the manger to offer ...

Dec 21 2018

Arise My Beloved

Click here for daily readings For my young friends, the personal and living God is unknown, someone else’s friend they hear about from time to time from some especially religious person, but someone with whom they have had...

Dec 03 2018

Let’s Go Together

Click here for daily readings The Church in her wisdom immediately reminds us at the very beginning of the Advent season that in these days of expectation, we are not only reliving the waiting of our ancient fathers, the centuri...

Sep 19 2018

Love Is Kind

Click here for daily readings Love is patient, love is kind. Love is not jealous, love is not pompous… It bears all things, believes all things, Hopes all things, endures all things…. My love? Not. Why is it that w...

Sep 14 2018

The Triumph Of The Cross

Click here for daily readings The cross. The Triumph of the Cross. The hymns sung at Mass today will be triumphant, glorious, majestic. Triumph. For a minute we might forget the reality of our crosses as we focus on the meaning ...

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’...

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...