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Seeing With the Shepherds

Seeing With the Shepherds

December 25, 2024  // The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) (Holy Day of Obligation) Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s Gospel from the Mass at Dawn: Luke...
December 24, 2024
What to Do When in the Pit

What to Do When in the Pit

I am numbered with those who go down into the pit; I am a man without strength. // Psalm 88:5 Without fail, grabbing a cup of coffee at my hometown...
September 30, 2024
Your Voice Has Value

Your Voice Has Value

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and...
September 01, 2024
Freedom From Thrift Store Idols - Blessed Is She

Freedom From Thrift Store Idols

Jesus went around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness. At the sight of the...
July 08, 2024
A Christmas Story (at Easter) - Blessed Is She

A Christmas Story (at Easter)

When Jesus had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. She went and told...
April 05, 2024
A God of Justice - Blessed Is She

A God of Justice

Saul then said to David: "You are in the right rather than I; you have treated me generously, while I have done you harm. Great is the generosity you showed...
January 18, 2024
Our Own Hearts Need Apply - Blessed Is She

Our Own Hearts Need Apply

Resplendent and unfading is wisdom, and she is readily perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her. She hastens to make herself known in anticipation...
November 11, 2023
Happy Birthday, Mama Mary - Blessed Is She

Happy Birthday, Mama Mary

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall name him...
September 07, 2023
Stop the Ride, I Want To Get Off - Blessed Is She

Stop the Ride, I Want To Get Off

He went off and beheaded [John] in the prison. He brought in the head on a platter and gave it to the girl. The girl in turn gave it to...
August 28, 2023
Multiply What Feels Meager - Blessed Is She

Multiply What Feels Meager

This poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed...
June 09, 2023
Build Well - Blessed Is She

Build Well

Come to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings but chosen and precious in the sight of God, and, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual...
May 06, 2023
Small Gifts and a Little Shepherd Boy - Blessed Is She

Small Gifts and a Little Shepherd Boy

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ So they filled them...
January 07, 2023