“For the love of Christ impels us…” (2 Cor. 5:14) | father.mulcahy.net
Today’s readings Sometimes we get an idea and it seems well, a little uncomfortable. We may well have had a call or even a gentle moving from the Lord, and are afraid to act on it. Today’s Scriptures speak to … Continued
Today’s readings Saul is proof that God’s ways are not our ways. How is it that God would pick for one of his chief Apostles a man who imprisoned and murdered the followers of the Christian Way? That had to … Continued
Today’s readings It is always interesting to me that the disciples, who we are told were trained fishermen, never catch anything unless they are with Jesus. Go through the Gospels and you will see that this is true. Their nets … Continued
Today’s readings At the heart of our practice of prayer has to be trust in God. We don’t – or shouldn’t – need signs to convince us of God’s love and care for us. But don’t we do that all … Continued
Today’s readings It could have been jealousy. Or maybe they just felt threatened. Either way, the Pharisees had lost sight of the mission. You could see how they would have been jealous: here they are working long and hard to … Continued
Today’s readings How wonderful it is to be known by God. Today the Psalmist prays, “O LORD, you have probed me and you know me; you know when I sit and when I stand; you understand my thoughts from afar.” … Continued
Today’s readings “Lord, if you wish you can make me clean.” In some ways, that is the biggest understatement in all of Scripture. We would say to the leper, “of course God can make you clean, God can do anything … Continued
Today’s readings: Isaiah 66:10-14, Psalm 131:1-3, John 2:1-11 Between May 13 and October 13, 1917, three Portuguese children received apparitions of Our Lady at Cova da Iria, near Fatima, a city 110 miles north of Lisbon. Mary asked the children … Continued
Today’s readings I think sometimes we really need to know that we are in the hands of God. Things here on earth can be pretty uncertain on a daily basis. The state of the economy, wars being fought all over … Continued
Today’s readings Have you noticed that the readings for these early days of Lent have been teaching us how to accomplish the various disciplines of Lent, which really are the various disciplines of the spiritual life? Today’s discipline then, I … Continued
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