The Word. The Seed.
Did anyone else just do a fist pump when you read today’s readings? When I was in high school, I finally read the Word. Of course, I had heard the...
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We Become the Lamp
Today’s Gospel gives us a glimpse of what happens when we let God’s light shine through us. When I converted nine years ago, God slowly worked on my heart and...
Forgive. Forget. Party On.
In today's First Reading it talks about Christ's ultimate sacrifice for us and God's amazing forgiveness for us and our sins. Forgiveness is a tall order and sometimes the hardest...
A New Song
Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin. Yikes. This is serious stuff in Saint Mark’s Gospel today. It’s the kind of...
Zealous for the Lord
If nothing else, these men that followed Jesus had a zeal for Him that is hard to match. Jonah, in the First Reading, inspires the city of Nineveh to convert...
New All Over Again
Is it just me, or does this time of year tend to feel a little disappointing? The holidays are over, the days are dark, and the winter seems to stretch...
Surrender to the Change
The Letter to the Hebrews, written to Christian Jews, beautifully ties the promises of the Old Testament to the coming of Christ. God promised a new covenant, unlike that that...
Christ the Healer
In today’s Gospel, we meet up with Jesus the Rock Star—the One who attracted people by the multitudes. People were undoubtedly hearing about Jesus’ astounding abilities to heal all manner...
Let's Stop Tattletaling
“M-m-m-m-m-o-o-o-m-m-m!” shouted the young girl to her mother as she attempted to hit her older brother in the arm, “He keeps staring at me! Make him go sit in the...
Finding Affirmation in God
Sometimes it feels like I'm living my own version of Alexander's Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. That day that everything goes wrong—you over-do it on the sleep and...
Let Go of Your Rigidity
Jesus was always in the hot spot with the Pharisees. They delighted at any opportunity to criticize him. Today it's the lack of fasting. Tomorrow it's the healing people of...
Glorify God in Your Body
Do you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a...
