October 17, 2024
By grace, we have been saved! Amen! Indeed, our salvation is a gift of unconditional love from our gracious God. We don’t need to try harder, pray more, debase ourselves, or boast of our many trials and tribulations. We must surrender to God’s mercy, compassion, and love. Yet some resist and continually ask, “What shall […]
October 16, 2024
As you read today’s Eucharistic Reflection, Pope Francis will be gathered for the Second Collegial Session of the Synod on Synodality in Rome. A representative group of bishops, priests’ women religious and lay men and women of the universal Church will seek to understand and implement the reality of synodality and, through that process, to […]
October 15, 2024
Memorial of Saint Teresa of Jesus, Virgin, and Doctor of the Church My wife, a retired nurse, remarked as we were discussing my reflections on this daily reading that mentions circumcision and why it is still performed today. She said that circumcision reduces the chances of cervical cancer among women. I realized that both Jesus […]
October 14, 2024
“If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts” is today’s Alleluia verse, which pulls no punches. It matches Father Eymard’s declaration, “…tomorrow will be too late!” Each generation walks the earth and attempts to live lives set before it by our Creator. And we accept that we are part of God’s plan for […]
October 13, 2024
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time “What must I do to gain eternal life? “How often does the man ask this same question in today’s reading asked by others — even by us? We want to be sure we are doing what will bring us eternal life. We read in Hebrews that “the word of God […]
October 12, 2024
Our scripture from Galatians is one of hope and promise! The gift of faith in Jesus fulfills the promise of eternal life. We believe Jesus came to show us the way, forgive sin, and lead us to the Father. It seems obscure to think of ourselves as descendants of Abraham. It was so long ago […]
October 11, 2024
Memorial of Saint John XXIII, Pope The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these too are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. Indeed, nothing genuinely human fails to raise […]
October 10, 2024
Pass them by. Ignore them. Loose eyesight. They don’t exist. Street people shake our emotional branches, and if we take notice at all, a twinge of guilt surfaces. We don’t know who is in need and who isn’t. It’s quite a dilemma. And so, they ask. How we respond is telling. Now, we may not […]
October 9, 2024
Many of us may remember learning our prayers as a child. My late husband, Joe, shared the story of his older brother teaching him the Our Father. Tom, who was ten years older, told his little brother that if he would learn the Our Father, then Tom would teach Joe how to get out of […]
October 8, 2024
Mary has chosen the better part… We are called to choose how we will live the call to discipleship given at the moment of our Baptism and Confirmation. The Spirit gives us the wisdom and courage to make choices that will lead us to fulfill the words we say so often: thy kingdom come, thy […]