Category Archives: Tommy Shultz

Oct 31 2020

Remember Your Death

Click here for daily readings I have been hearing from a lot of people lately that they hope the second coming is soon because things are a mess right now. We hear cries of division, political unrest, and much more....

Oct 13 2020

Relationship over Regulations

Click here for daily readings I love today and the Gospel for a few reasons. To start, today Nathalie and I celebrate our two year anniversary. I am so blessed by her in new ways every single day and she has truly shown ...

Sep 27 2020

What is Your Opinion?

Click here for daily readings The Gospel for today basically describes 2,000 years of moral teaching with one simple question, “What is your opinion?” Jesus asks this to the chief priests and elders and gives...

Sep 03 2020

An Old Fish Tale

Click here for daily readings This Gospel today is pretty familiar to most of us, especially if you have watched the phenomenal series, Chosen. But today I want to focus on an aspect of the story that maybe we don’t...

Aug 24 2020

Divine Power

Click here for daily readings I love the snark coming from Jesus in the Gospel today. First off, we see Nathanael doubting that anything good could possibly come from Nazareth. You can almost feel the uppity attitude thr...

Aug 13 2020

Divine Forgiveness

Click here for daily readings Imagine the tangible power of forgiveness? Have you ever experienced it? In the fallen and broken world we live in, forgiveness is what can make us whole again, it is what can fill in t...

Aug 03 2020

Trust in the Power of Christ

Click here for daily readings This is my all-time favorite passage in scripture. Firstly, we see Jesus go off by himself to pray. As if preparing for the opening night of a play or an amazing feat of strength, Jesus goes off by ...

Aug 01 2020

Peer Pressure

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, we hear about one of the first documented and most intense cases of peer pressure. Because of a fear of the crowd, Herod murders John the Baptist. Now it may seem like this ...

Jul 23 2020

How Lucky We Are To Be Alive Right Now

Click here for daily readings “They look but do not see and hear but do not listen or understand.” I know I’ve been there in my spiritual life. Sometimes we have these things called plans and they end up being ...

Jul 20 2020

Signs and Wonders

Click here for daily readings Have you ever thought about how many processes are involved just to bring us one simple breath or a heartbeat? This is commonplace knowledge for a med student and beyond the realm of most of us, bu...

Jul 18 2020

The Perfect Will of God

Click here for daily readings A will, a desperate attempt to put things in order and give the loved ones in our lives their due if anything were to happen to us. Free will, that messy and confusing thing which allows for wars, d...

Jul 12 2020

Already But Not YET

Click here for daily readings “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us.” What hope we have from today’s second reading. We are in a stra...

Jul 11 2020

Our Mediator

Click here for daily readings In the beginning, we hear that God creates the heavens and earth. It seems like we have grasped what that means, but really take a second to think about. In the beginning, God creates us to be with...

Mar 05 2020

Prayer of Faith

Click here for daily readings I have been reflecting a lot about prayer lately. Is there a correct way to pray, a prayer that reaches God faster, a type of prayer that cuts through all the human imperfection and distraction and ...

Mar 04 2020

Something Greater Than Jonah

Click here for daily readings Have you ever been one to think, “I just don’t get much out of the Mass.” “Why can’t Jesus just walk on earth today with us?” “Where are the signs that God ...

Mar 01 2020

Fasting and Praying

Click here for daily readings Today, we hear three different readings, all touching on the drama of salvation. I say drama because it truly can be read as a drama, and as any actor will tell you, it’s important to enter in...

Feb 24 2020

There is Power

Click here for daily readings Miracles and power. You know, those things that Jesus had two thousand years ago when he was present with us and then was zapped up into heaven and took his power with him. Wait, is that really the ...

Feb 16 2020

The Power of Christ

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel is quite long but so rich. At first, it can seem like Jesus is in a bad mood during these readings and is just calling people out left and right, condemning them. While these re...

Feb 09 2020

A Light to the Whole World

Click here for daily readings A sacrament is a visible sign of invisible grace, of the grace of God. When we receive the Eucharist in the Mass, we are physically receiving God’s love and have that love not only in our hear...

Jan 26 2020

Unity vs. Division

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings hit hard when it comes to our world today. I do Evangelization for a collaborative of parishes, and something I have noticed time and again through our courses and events is t...