Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel reading may strike us as the way we are called to live as Christians. We have been given many things from God: gifts, talents, intellect, family; and we are to use them to build up the Kingdom. We build our talents through education, practice, and action. We are

Click here for daily readings Forty years ago I underwent a simple out-patient procedure: metatarsal surgery. It was simple, that is, until I had a stroke the evening of the surgery. Eleven days later I was still in the hospital struggling to walk, eat, and talk. The confusion of those first weeks was only the

Click here for daily readings What is something you would love to see right now? The coral reefs of Fiji, outer space, or the colors outside our visual spectrum? What about a loved one or your best friend from college?  The human experience is saturated with beauty because it is saturated with God, who is

Click here for daily readings The readings this Sunday are full of difficult images: a day blazing like an oven that will turn evildoers into stubble, the Lord coming to rule with justice, the destruction of the Temple, wars and earthquakes and plagues, persecution of those who follow Jesus, mighty signs from the sky... Jesus

Click here for daily readings “Why, Lord?” I cried as I sat in the van outside my doctor’s office and begged Him again for healing. Tears rolled down my cheeks, and my soul screamed in anguish within me. I had suffered so long and had prayed and pursued many promising avenues of healing with little

Click here for daily readings Taken or left? Which is better? Jesus offers insight in the last line of today’s Gospel. The Apostles ask Him where these people will be taken, and Jesus answers, "Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather." Not good. Noah heard the voice of God; he tried to

Click here for daily readings The first reading from the Book of Wisdom can be applied to Mother Cabrini, whose feast day we celebrate today: “For she is the refulgence of eternal light, the spotless mirror of the power of God, the image of his goodness.” I first learned about her while watching the recent

Click here for daily readings The lepers were outcasts, suffering not only from physical illness but also from social and spiritual isolation, unable to be where others gathered and prayed, including the synagogue. They were considered less than others, avoided by all. When they cried out, “Jesus, Master! Have mercy on us!” they were not

Click here for daily readings Over the summer I truly experienced the reality of “when it rains, it pours.” It seemed like everything was breaking and needing to be replaced all at once. One car needed a wheel bearing and an AC repair, the other one needed a brake job and a tune up, our