Category Archives: Tommy Shultz

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...

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 ...