October 9, 2025

In the opening lines of today’s first reading, the people said, “It is vain to serve God, and what do we profit by keeping his command” — sounds like today’s news: people arguing “right and left.”  Is this a reality check? Jesus was news when he walked the earth. Compare the focus of people’s attention in […]

October 8, 2025

Call Waiting How does it happen that people do something awful and get away with it? We want justice! Punishment! Vengeance! It’s a perennial question if there ever was one. The worldwide injustices and the moral dilemmas are not within the scope of daily life that have to be reckoned with. The challenges we face […]

October 7, 2025

Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary During the summer, when my brother and I were young and my parents were teaching, our grandparents would come and retrieve us after very active summer camp days to “watch” us through the afternoon and eve. We would either have the choice of being inside with Grandma, watching […]

October 6, 2025

The Good Samaritan sees a man who has been beaten and left half-dead. Others walk by, too busy or afraid to stop. But the Samaritan allows himself to be moved with compassion. He pours wine and oil on the man’s wounds, lifts him up, and makes sure he is cared for. Love becomes action. This […]

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 […]