|Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.|For God is the one who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work. ...|Do everything without grumbling or questioning. Philippians 2|The LORD is my light ...

|It may not sound like it at first, but the closing part of the gospel reading is particularly challenging for us today: Jesus speaks and commands with authority and power. When we see flyers announcing lectures, we often ...

|Call it the luck of the draw, but I was previously asked to reflect on today's readings. I reviewed my prior reflection and thought it might be worth repeating, in part.|We have all heard the expressions, "if we all just ...

|My mind kept wandering as I read and reread today's readings.  Usually I spot a theme the first time I go through the readings, but not with today's. There were so many avenues to explore, my mind bounced from idea to ...

John's story of Jesus feeding a large crowd is similar to Mark's story of Jesus feeding the five thousand. There are some details that differ but essentially they seem to set forth the same view of Jesus and his disciples. ...

Just imagine the joy the people of Israel must have experienced when the prophet Isaiah told them that a new day was dawning.  A day when the deaf shall hear and the blind shall see and the tyrant will be gone and the ...

What did those apostles eat for breakfast that morning? Was there some special food they ate that suddenly gave them such courage? In today's first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, we see the same friends of Jesus ...

Today's reading of the loaves and the fishes flooded me with memories from my formative years as I find this scripture one of the most accessible and vivid readings to a child. I remember times when I was amazed that Jesus ...

"If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple."||This directive from Jesus in this gospel used to mess me up as a kid. ...

As I've read through the readings for November 4th, these passages have most impressed me:||From Philippians: 2:13 "because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose."|From Psalm ...