Category Archives: Tommy Shultz

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...

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 ...