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Tuesday of the First Week of Lent
Today’s readings #LentND The prophet Isaiah and Jesus speak today about the great power of words. Isaiah speaks specifically of the power of God’s word, a word that will not return empty but will go out and accomplish the purpose for which God sent it. We see the word that the prophet speaks of here,…
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The First Sunday of Lent: Remembering Who We Are
Today’s readings The devil wants more than anything for us to forget who we are. He really didn’t care if Jesus ruined his fast by turning some stones into bread, or if he killed himself trying to test God, and he certainly had no intention of making him king of the world. What he wanted,…
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Thursday after Ash Wednesday
Today’s readings When it comes right down to it, we have a choice. We can choose life or death, blessing or curse, the way of the Cross or the way of the world. The choice that we make has huge consequences, eternal consequences. The stakes are big ones, and we must choose wisely. Many of…
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Ash Wednesday: This Campaign of Christian Service
Today’s readings #AshWednesday #LentND #AshTag Back when I was in seminary, I was a fire chaplain for one of the local fire departments. On Wednesdays, we only had one class, and since it was Ash Wednesday and our teacher was a pastor of a parish, he was obviously busy, so we had the day free.…
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Monday of the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings One of the most important aspects of the spiritual life is the knowledge that we can’t hold on to everything all at once. If we’re holding on to the stuff of this world, we have no way of taking hold of the blessings God wants to give us. The rich young man in…
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The Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings For the Rite of Acceptance Into the Order of Catechumens Worry will absolutely kill us, if we let it. As a pastor and confessor, I hear worry from people all the time. Worry about job issues or money in general, worry about illnesses or the grieving of loved ones, worry about children and other…
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Saint Polycarp, bishop and martyr
Today’s readings Saint Polycarp was the bishop of Smyrna and a disciple of the apostles. He is known to have accompanied Saint Ignatius of Antioch to Rome to confer with Pope Anicetus concerning the celebration of Easter, which was quite a controversy in that time. He was known to be a man of faith and…
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Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings There’s been a lot of arguing in the Gospels these last couple of days. Yesterday, the disciples were arguing with the scribes when both groups found they were incapable of casting a demon out of a person who was ill. Today, we have the disciples arguing among themselves because they find they don’t…
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Monday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings So the disciples are waiting for Jesus to come down the mountain after the Transfiguration. They have attempted to cure a man’s son from the hold of a demon, but they were apparently unable to do so. This seems to have led to an argument between them and the scribes. You can almost…
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Saturday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.” The writer of the letter to the Hebrews sums up for us this notion of faith, which can be so difficult to wrap our minds around. What I love about the definition of faith that comes to us…
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