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Entrusting Our Needs to Mary

Entrusting Our Needs to Mary

February 11, 2025 // Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s Gospel from the Optional Memorial: John 2:1-11 Reflect on the...
10 février, 2025
In the Details

In the Details

January 1, 2025 //  Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God and the Octave Day of Christmas (Holy Day of Obligation) Read the Word // Open your...
31 décembre, 2024
How Do I Delight in the Lord?

How Do I Delight in the Lord?

Take delight in the Lord, and he will grant you your heart’s requests. // Psalm 37:4 This is such a sweet verse from today’s Psalm, right? It almost reads like...
11 novembre, 2024
Tending to the Lord’s Dwelling

Tending to the Lord’s Dwelling

[I]n him you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. // Ephesians 2:22 I like to think I can do quite a few...
21 octobre, 2024
Soften My Heart To Your Words

Soften My Heart To Your Words

“Simon, I have something to say to you.” “Tell me, teacher,” he said. // Luke 7:40 “Gina! Wait. I forgot to give you the homework . . .” The final school...
18 septembre, 2024
Savoring the Fragments

Savoring the Fragments

They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the fragments left over. // Matthew 14:20  I stepped out into the courtyard with hundreds of women (perhaps some of...
04 août, 2024
No Work On Sunday

No Work On Sunday

“For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.” // Matthew 12:8 “Mom,” my teenage son asked, “aren’t we supposed to rest and not work on Sunday?” I could...
18 juillet, 2024
Walk Into Freedom - Blessed Is She

Walk Into Freedom

So [Peter] followed him out, not realizing that what was happening through the angel was real. // Acts 12:9  Chained, sandwiched between guards, locked in a cell guarded by more...
28 juin, 2024
Keds, 1% Better, and the Pursuit of Holiness - Blessed Is She

Keds, 1% Better, and the Pursuit of Holiness

As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct, for it is written, Be holy because I am holy. // 1 Peter 1:16...
27 mai, 2024
What Are We To Do? - Blessed Is She

What Are We To Do?

When they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other Apostles, “What are we to do, my brothers?” // Acts 2:37 “Oooh, that...
01 avril, 2024
The Persistence of A Child - Blessed Is She

The Persistence of A Child

Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples. A large number of people followed from Galilee and from Judea. // Mark 3:7 There’s a joke among mothers that moms of toddlers...
17 janvier, 2024
When We Want To Give Up - Blessed Is She

When We Want To Give Up

Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary [ . . . ] “But when the Son of Man comes, will...
17 novembre, 2023