Click here for daily readings During one of many conversations at one of many gatherings, someone said, "I give my children the best, even if it causes me to go into debt." These words took me back several years, so as not to say decades, even though I'm actually from the last century. I spent

Click here for daily readings “Young man, I tell you, arise!” Our Lord’s miracle, recounted by Luke in today’s Gospel, takes place in Nain, a small Galilean city. As far as we know, this is His only visit to Nain, but it is hardly unimportant. He resurrects the only son of a widow. The reading

Click here for daily readings Being a parent carries with it enormous anxiety, constantly placing your heart on the line for potential loss or rejection. What would happen if we were to lose our child's life, or even worse, their soul? Such questions are so heavy that we probably don’t even want to begin to

Click here for daily readings “And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” (John 3:14-15)  At Mass recently, as the priest lifted the host I visualized the cross being raised up with

Click here for daily readings I want to bear good fruit. And a lot of it. Today's Gospel from Luke tells us, "A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the fullness of the heart

Click here for daily readings “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? No disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher” On the cross, Jesus left His mother to be our mother as well. Why? Why wasn’t following

Click here for daily readings Being positive is hard. Loving others who have hurt you is hard. Sometimes being charitable to others seems like a bigger chore than just being angry with them and hating them. As easy it may seem to hate, God calls us to go the extra mile to be charitable to

Click here for daily readings Jesus was revolutionary. His message repeatedly upended the status quo and called His followers to a whole new way of looking at things. Living in the grace of more than 2,000 years of Christian thought, we can forget that. But there He stood, delivering the Sermon on the Mount, describing

Click here for daily readings My wife and I decided it would be prudent to move houses six times since 2020. We also thought it would be fun to throw our first child into that mix. It was a hectic time to say the least. As we unpacked the very last box in our current