Category Archives: Tommy Shultz

Oct 01 2019

A Time and a Place

Click here for daily readings Fall is one of my favorite seasons, not only because of the pumpkin spice and everything nice but also because of the change that occurs in nature. We have begun to enter the time where jackets come...

Sep 25 2019

The Virtue of Faith

Click here for daily readings “Faith is the theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he has said and revealed to us, and that Holy Church proposes for our belief, because he is truth itself. By fa...

Sep 17 2019

Moved with Pity

Click here for daily readings Think back to the last time you prayed. Maybe it was a few minutes ago, or maybe it’s been a few days. You might have knelt down on a very used kneeler in a church before our Lord or made t...

Sep 04 2019

Purpose, Focus, Direction

Click here for daily readings I love the Gospel reading today because it shows the unmatched power of Jesus as the son of God while at the same time showing his incredible focus for the end goal. Purpose-focus-direction. These...

Aug 22 2019

An Invitation of Love

Click here for daily readings I have written about this before, but I absolutely love when God’s love for us is described with marital imagery. As most of you know, having been recently married, it is a time in my life wh...

Aug 18 2019

Set the World Ablaze

Click here for daily readings “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!&rd...

Jul 25 2019

From Death to Life

Click here for daily readings When reading the book of Genesis, I try to put myself into the perspective of Adam and Eve. Here are two people who had a perfect love with God and each other, they had no suffering, pain, despair, ...

Jul 23 2019

Tell Your Story

Click here for daily readings “Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD swept the sea with a strong east wind throughout the night and so turned it into dry land. When the water was thus divided, the childre...

Jul 18 2019

My Burden is Light

Click here for daily readings The headphones go in, the music or Netflix goes on, and for just a while we can forget that we are human, that we have responsibility, so much so that we call it vegging. The height of the human ex...

Jul 07 2019

The Sky is Falling

Click here for daily readings Warm ash falls from the tops of buildings as the brightest light imaginable makes our pupils dilate to the size of a pen head. There is a heat that can only be described as that of a blazing furna...

Jul 06 2019

The Wedding Feast

Click here for daily readings I absolutely love when God’s love and our relationship with him are described in wedding terms. I especially love when those terms include food. Think back to the most delicious wedding recep...

Jun 16 2019

Longing for Spiritual Food

Click here for daily readings God communicates in different ways to different times, but the core message remains; a message of love. In the Old Testament God the Father spoke to the Prophets, in the New Testament the Word beca...

May 19 2019

Love One Another

Click here for daily readings Perhaps the most quoted Gospel of all time shot off the page to me with new meaning as I sat in Mass on Saturday evening. We have all heard, love one another; that’s like the basics. Have you ...

May 11 2019

Does this Shock You?

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, we hear Jesus giving one of the hardest teachings in the bible. He is explaining the teaching of the Eucharist, that bread and wine really are turned into his body and blood...

May 05 2019

Abundance

Click here for daily readings Faith- what’s the first thing that pops into your mind when I say that word. Faith! How about Church? What’s the first thing you think of? How about rules? What comes to mind then? We a...

Apr 28 2019

Faith in His Mercy

Click here for daily readings Today is one of my favorite days in the liturgical calendar, Divine Mercy Sunday, and the readings paint a beautiful picture for how we should receive the mercy of God. These readings are largely b...

Apr 21 2019

Love Revealed and Made Real

Click here for daily readings I have been writing a lot about marriage in my posts recently, partly because I was recently married and the realities and beauties of marriage are fresh in my mind and experience, but also because ...

Apr 14 2019

A Holy Procession

Click here for daily readings Yesterday my beautiful bride and I celebrated our 6 month anniversary of marriage. People say your wedding day goes by so fast that you are lucky to get a piece of your cake. This was certainly true...

Apr 07 2019

Neither Do I Condemn

Click here for daily readings The Gospel reading today is much richer than the surface understanding that Jesus was merciful. Though his mercy is certainly shown in this verse, there is something deeper going on here that speak...

Mar 31 2019

Continual Conversion

Click here for daily readings “Whoever is in Christ is a new creation. The old has passed away, behold the new has come.” This quotation from today’s second reading is one of my favorites, so special to me tha...