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Monday of the Second Week of Ordinary Time: Christian Unity
Today’s readings In today’s Gospel, Jesus is challenging some age-old practices. He is not saying that fasting is a bad thing, but instead he is saying that something new is going on. He has come to usher in a new age, and fasting is inappropriate while he is there bringing it in! Today is the…
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Friday of the First Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “We have never seen anything like this.” That statement can be taken in a number of ways. It could be an expression of amazement: the people were seeing something new in Jesus and found it to be astonishingly wonderful. That’s almost too much to hope for from them, unfortunately, so what they probably…
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Thursday of the First Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “If you wish, you can make me clean.” This ought to be the prayer of all of us, I think. Does God wish to make us clean? Of course. But do we acknowledge his ability to do so? Sometimes we are so saddened by our sins that we feel we are beyond redemption. …
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Wednesday of the First Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Learning to discern the Lord’s voice is a big part of our development as people of God and disciples of the Lord. There are many competing voices out there, and so it takes great discernment to know which of those voices is God himself. The way that we learn this is, of course,…
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Monday of the First Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Now that the Christmas season has come to its close, it’s time to get down to business. And Jesus does so quickly. John has been arrested, so there is no time like the present to keep the word out there. Just as John preached a baptism for the forgiveness of sins, so Jesus…
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The Baptism of the Lord
Today’s readings What wonderful words we have in today’s Gospel to close out the Christmas season: “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well-pleased.” We have come a long way since December the 25th. Jesus, the Son of God has become the son of Mary, and has sanctified the world by his most…
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Wednesday after Epiphany
Today’s readings We still need more light, don’t we? Just like the disciples who don’t yet get who this Jesus is and what he’s about, sometimes we too struggle with that. Jesus was doing amazing things among the disciples and they didn’t yet understand. Jesus is doing amazing things among us and sometimes we don’t…
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Today’s readings Mother Seton is a major figure of the Catholic Church in the United States. Her accomplishments contributed greatly to the growth of Catholicism in this country. She founded the first American religious community for women, the Sisters of Charity. She opened the first American parish school and established the first American Catholic orphanage.…
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Mary, the Mother of God
Today’s readings My mother has a lot of stories about me as I was growing up. Some of them are funny or interesting, others are just a little painful or embarrassing. I suspect your mother has or had stories like that about you too. Maybe they are funny or maybe they are sad, but these…
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Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas
Today’s readings What did you get for Christmas? Was it everything you’d hoped for? Perhaps you, like me, are at the stage where the gifts are nice, but being together at Christmas is the real gift. Today’s first reading is exhorting us to something similar. While the rest of the world waits in line for…
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