9/3/2021 MEMORIAL OF GREGORY THE GREAT, POPE, DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
Keep it all in balance It’s never easy to find the right balance between sitting quietly and attentively on the sidelines and joining in the scrum of life’s adventures. Our prayer life helps us discern how best to hold these together and respond with love for ourselves and the common good. Gregory was a Benedictine […]
Wednesday 22nd Week of Ordinary Time
Luke 4:38-44. We may think that Jesus went to Simon Peter’s houseto get a nice meal and to put his feet up after a busy day. But He knew Peter’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a fever. He sought her out. Jesus, our Savior, is drawn to the sickness of every descriptionlike two magnets […]
AUGUST 28, 2021, SATURDAY 21ST WEEK OF THE YEAR
Today’s Reading Anyone who needs a knee, shoulder, or hip replacement knows what a tremendous handicap it can have on your mobility and life. The servant who buried his Master’s money in the ground had the same effect on the Master’s household. Out of fear, he buried his talent so no one could use it, and people […]
AUGUST 30, 2021, MONDAY 22ND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
August 30 The mainstay of Christian education is a well-founded and clear knowledge of the Church of Christ, of which we are members. O how little we feel the dignity and true sweetness of our belonging! We Christians are in fact divided and, so to speak, untied one from the other; therefore we do not […]
May 20, 2021, Thursday 7th Week of Easter
John 17:20-26 Thursday’s Mass Readings How important are the words we speak to each other and the example we give every day. We probably don’t think much about that, but we leave something of ourselves in every interaction we have with another person. “I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe […]
May 19, 2021, Wednesday 7th Week of Easter
John 17: 11b-19 Wednesday Mass Readings When I was a child it was my responsibility to set the table for dinner. Before I could reach the dishes in the cabinet, my Mom would get them for me. Of course we used our everyday dishes, the kind that didn’t break. But when someone special was coming to dinner, I went to the […]
May 18, 2021, 7th week of Easter
John 17:1-11. Tuesday Mass Readings Let us take courage that like St. Paul and all the disciples; Jesus has placed us in his Father’s hands. How important it is to realize that blessing when trials come our way. At the Last Supper Jesus told his disciples, “Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not […]
May 17, 2021, Monday 7th Week of Easter
John 16:29-33. Monday’s Mass Readings Jesus is telling us however many times we have left him or anyone to suffer alone; he will never lose faith in us. In these final words of Jesus before his arrest on Holy Thursday evening the disciples tell Jesus that they pretty much get it, they understand that he came from God. Jesus wants […]
May 16 2021, Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord cycle B
Mark 16:15-20. Sunday Mass Readings Jesus told us He would be with us, always. I am sure that you have seen on the news or a documentary where people have handled snakes and drank poison during church services and what happened? People were severely injured or even died. If we took the scriptures literally, I doubt that […]