October 5, 2025
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time As I sit at my desk to write this reflection/meditation, I suddenly realize that this day is 9/11, when we commemorate those tragic events and loss of life in New York City. It is also the day after the horrific shooting at a University in Utah. Today’s First Reading from […]
October 4, 2025
Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi Saint Francis is my Confirmation Saint. I honestly do not remember why I chose him at the time, but I often think that perhaps he chose me. Not only did one of my sons choose him as his Confirmation Saint, but my Spiritual Director did as well. And now […]
October 3, 2025
Today’s readings cause each of us to pause and reflect on our own sinfulness, our failures to appropriately respond to our loving God, Baruch laments the infidelity of God’s people. Despite all the wonders that God had done for his people in saving them from slavery in Egypt, the people relentlessly refused to respond to […]
October 2, 2025
Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels Today’s feast day brings back special memories of my childhood. Each night when I was a little girl, my mom or dad would kneel at the side of one of our beds, and along with my brother and sister, we would pray to our guardian angels, asking them “to […]
October 1, 2025
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the Kingdom of God.” The three incidents recorded in today’s gospel passage deal with the demanding nature of Christian discipleship. Here, Jesus reveals the radical commitment required to follow him, […]
September 30, 2025
Memorial of Saint Jerome, Presbyter & Doctor of the Church God is with us! Emmanuel! We tend to recall this word and phrase only during Christmas time, but the prophet Zephaniah and the people who join the witnesses of faith remind us again of the great gift of God in our midst. Christ Eucharistic is […]
September 29, 2025
Take Another Look The Life of Pi by Yann Martel tells the story of a boy who is shipwrecked and survives on a life raft with Richard Parker, a Bengal tiger. Seemingly, this story is so far removed from the phantasmagorical accounts in the Book of Daniel, which envision God on a throne and Jesus […]
September 28, 2025
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Between us and you, a great chasm is established to prevent anyone from crossing… Reading the story in the gospel today makes it clear that the great chasm existed even before the rich man’s death. The chasm was wealth versus poverty. A sense of privilege and class that made it […]
September 27, 2025
Today’s Eucharistic reflection focuses on the Gospel Acclamation. Please take a moment to read it slowly a few times. God loves us, sent his Son, Jesus, to die on a cross for us to be saved from hell and saved for heaven. We, as sinful humans, do not deserve to be saved, but God offers […]
September 26, 2025
Imagine being one of Jesus’ disciples, hearing him say he would be killed. Peter had just proclaimed him as the Christ of God, and Jesus confirmed it. They had seen his power—he could raise the dead—but only through prayer to the Father. It hadn’t yet entered their minds that Jesus himself was divine, capable of […]