Category Archives: Tommy Shultz

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...

Jan 19 2020

Supernatural Faith

Click here for daily readings Sometimes faith can be hard. We all know it, we have felt it, we have experienced times of desolation and consolation in our faith. The beauty about faith is that God is the one behind it. Sometimes...

Jan 12 2020

Baptized in the Lord

Click here for daily readings Today marks the last day of the Christmas season, where we celebrated the birth of Christ, and the Baptism of the Lord, where we celebrate new life in Christ. There is so much beauty in new bi...

Jan 01 2020

A Blessed New Year

Click here for daily readings Nathalie and I have decided to do “Whole 30” to start the year. I made it clear that this meant I would be eating cheese whiz at some point today to celebrate that which I am losing, del...

Dec 29 2019

O Angel of God

Click here for daily readings “O Angel of God, my guardian, dear.” I think most of us probably learned this prayer as we were kids. I can remember praying this all together, sitting around the fire at night...

Dec 25 2019

The Word Became Flesh

Click here for daily readings Theology sometimes gets a bad wrap for being impractical or abstract. Well, today, theology becomes the most practical thing in the world. This is what we celebrate during Christmas, is that the stu...

Dec 22 2019

God Speaks

Click here for daily readings Do you ever wish God would send an angel to tell you exactly what his plan for you is? I remember times during discernment where I literally begged for God just to be clear. I wanted him to come dow...

Dec 01 2019

You Know The Time

Click here for daily readings “You know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed; the night is advanced, the day is at hand.” -Romans 13:11...

Nov 24 2019

Expectant Faith

Click here for daily readings I think sometimes we lose the depth of scripture because we have 2,000 years of theological insight and historical data to help us interpret what is being said. The beautiful then becomes commonplac...

Nov 17 2019

Outside of Time

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings are pretty tough to swallow, being not only about hell but also about the end time and not knowing the precise moment. It is easy to look at these readings and be confused as ...

Nov 03 2019

Short Stature, Big Faith

Click here for daily readings I call today’s Gospel the reading for the short man. I relate to it a lot because I have always been short. Instead of being remembered for his hair color, physique, or heart, he is recognized...

Oct 25 2019

Body Bad, Spirit Good

Click here for daily readings The body is bad, and the spirit is good is the battle cry of a common heresy that I think is still making the rounds today; it is the heresy of Gnosticism. This is essentially the belief that all ma...

Oct 17 2019

Faith and Works

Click here for daily readings Today in the first reading, we have the classic text that is used to justify a faith alone mentality or the idea that merely having an intellectual belief that does not involve an act of the will, i...

Oct 16 2019

Try the Mirror First

Click here for daily readings Not long ago, I was out for coffee with an acquaintance when an extremely overweight person was seated next to us—with some difficulty, because there wasn’t quite enough room between the...

Oct 14 2019

Called to be an Apostle

Click here for daily readings I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the difference between a disciple and an apostle, and here the first reading speaks entirely about being an apostle. I think a lot of the time, us Catholi...

Oct 10 2019

Is There Power?

Click here for daily readings Have you ever done the classic God test? “I am going to pray for this specific thing, God, and if it doesn’t happen then you are not real.” We judge God by his power and if a speci...

Oct 06 2019

Living a Saintly Humility

Click here for daily readings Think back to the last time you anticipated an event that was so important to you that you couldn’t help but tell everyone in the known world about it. You took to social media to share with f...