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Monday of the Thritieth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The leader of the synagogue had it all wrong, and he of all people should have known what was right. God always intended the Sabbath day to be a day of rest, yes, but also of healing. We find great healing when we rest, and so the healing of a person who had…
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Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Paul’s lament has got to be so familiar to all of us, I think. Most of us really want to be better people, to live the right way, to give witness to Christ in our daily lives. And much of the time, I think we accomplish that. But there’s always that downfall in…
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Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings All this talk of beatings aside, I think the scariest words in today’s Gospel come right at the end of the reading: “Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.” Think about how much we all have. Even in…
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St. Isaac Jogues, John de Brébeuf and Companions, Martyrs
Today’s readings St. Isaac and St. John were among eight missionaries who worked among the Huron and Iroquois Indians in the New World in the seventeenth century. They were devoted to their work and were accomplishing many conversions. The conversions, though, were not welcomed by the tribes, and eventually St. Isaac was captured and imprisoned…
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St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
Today’s readings “I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of Jesus.” St. Margaret Mary spoke these as her dying words, while being anointed at the age of 43. Margaret was a simple woman and a Visitation nun. She worked as an assistant in the convent infirmary, but God had other…
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Saint Teresa of Avila, virgin and Doctor of the Church
Today’s readings: Romans 8:22-27; Psalm 19:8-11; John 15:1-8 Saint Teresa was a virgin, mystic, nun, reformer of the Carmelite order, foundress of the Discalced Carmelites; over all a woman deeply devoted to her God – mentally, emotionally and spiritually. She was of a large family, toward the end of the group of twelve children. When…
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Wednesday of the Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The requirements of discipleship cannot be reduced to mere observance of law, and a checklist of things to do. Paying tithes and keeping feast days are important, but eclipsing them in importance is loving others as Christ does. We disciples are called to bear others’ burdens, loving God and neighbor, setting aside our…
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Tuesday of the Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Like many of you, when I take a vacation somewhere with natural beauty, I am always amazed at it. The last few years, my family has vacationed up in Wisconsin, on the shore of Lake Michigan. I am always in awe to see the sun rise over the lake, or after a rain,…
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Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings We just finished hearing about the challenges and ministry of Jonah this past week. Jonah, called to preach repentance to the Ninevites, finds that he would rather not, and so attempts to get away from God. That, of course, doesn’t work because there is no where that God is not, so he ends…
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