Devotions
Feeling Stressed? Try Singing.
May 27, 2025 // Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter // Optional Memorial of Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s First...
Do it Afraid
April 21, 2025 // Monday in the Octave of Easter Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s Gospel: Matthew 28:8-15 Reflect on the Word // Why do I...
Weight Loss and Walking with Jesus
February 25, 2025 // Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s Gospel: Mark 9:30-37 Reflect on the Word // The...
Hope for Today
December 18, 2024 // Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s First Reading: Jeremiah 23:5-8 Reflect on the Word// I slid...
His Will for You is Good
Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s Gospel: Matthew 8:5-11 Reflect on the Word // I took a deep breath and mustered all of my courage. Like a...
When it’s Hard to Give Thanks
“Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?” // Luke 17 (from the Gospel for Thanksgiving Day) I blinked groggily and reached...
Hold our Lady’s Hand
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women. // Luke 1:28 (from Gospel for Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary) Fumbling in...
Victory...Little By Little
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. // John 3:17 We hustled silently through...
What Do You Wish?
He said to her, "What do you wish?" // Matthew 20:20 Tiny waves lapped on the placid seashore, making a musical sound as they trickled out over small stones. I...
Who Told You That?
Then [God] asked, "Who told you that you were naked? // Genesis 3:11 My family still talks about my standing ovation in Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. I was in ninth...
Live For Heaven
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul. // 1 Peter 2:11 For more than a decade, I...
Your Life is a Gift
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. // John 10:18 A lot of cleaning. That’s what I saw in nearly every frame of...
