Showing posts with label Prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prayer. Show all posts
Sunday, August 9, 2026

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2026 - Prayerful Silence

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  Throughout the Scriptures we find our Lord going to secluded places to pray. In the Gospel today, for example, after a long and arduous da...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

July 15 2026 - St. Bonaventure - Marian Protection and Christian Perfection

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  The Church celebrates today the Feast of St. Bonaventure.   When we celebrate the saints, we reflect on the lessons from their lives on ho...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

11th Week in Ordinary Time 2026 - Wednesday - The prayer, fasting, and almsgiving of God's priestly people

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  At Sunday Mass, this last weekend, we read from the book of Exodus how God has formed his people into a kingdom of priests—a royal priesth...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Holy Week 2026 - Wednesday (School Mass) - Preparing for the Sacred Triduum

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Tomorrow begins the three Sacred Days of the Church Year known as the Sacred Triduum: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. All of ...
Sunday, February 8, 2026

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2026 - Salt

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  I remember as a kid, my dad telling stories about working in the salt mines under Lake Erie when he was a younger man.   Morton Salt has a...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

3rd Sunday of Advent 2025 - Joy in stillness

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On the first Sunday of Advent, our Scripture readings urged us to be mindful of the need to prepare well during this holy season. On the Sec...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025 - The Rosary and Persevering Prayer

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  During the 12th and 13th century, a dastardly heresy swept throughout Europe known as Albigensianism. The Albigensians struggled with the ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

October 15 2025 - St. Teresa of Avila - The pathway of prayer (school mass)

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 Two weeks ago we celebrated the feast of the Carmelite nun, St. Therese of Lisieux. Recall how little Therese felt called by God to dedicat...
Monday, September 22, 2025

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025 - The Virtue of Justice toward God and Neighbor

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  One of my favorite features of any Catholic Church are often the stained-glass windows. Some Churches depict scenes from scripture, some d...
Monday, July 21, 2025

16th Sunday of Ordinary Time 2025 - Misaligned or drawn deeper into the Divine

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 Last week, from Luke’s Gospel we heard the parable of the Good Samaritan: an instruction from Our Lord to go beyond our comfort zones to he...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

11th Week in Ordinary Time 2025 - Wednesday - Whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully

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 There is a spiritual truth that applies to our faith, and probably just about everything in life: “the more you put into something, the mor...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Memorial Day 2025 - Praying in the Catacombs

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  Today, there is a beautiful confluence of two calendars: our liturgical calendar and our civil calendar as Americans. On the liturgical ca...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

May 13 2025 - Our Lady of Fatima - Pray, do penance, seek conversion

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  Between May 13 and October 13, 1917, three Portuguese children received apparitions of Our Lady, near Fatima, a city 110 miles north of Li...
Monday, March 17, 2025

2nd Sunday of Lent 2025 - More than a superficial faith

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 There’s a story about a wealthy king who wanted to find a bride. And not just any bride, the king wished to marry a woman who would love hi...
Friday, March 14, 2025

1st Week of Lent 2025 - Friday - Transformation of heart and behavior

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Several times this first full week of Lent, we read from Jesus’ great Sermon on the Mount.  On Tuesday, Jesus taught his disciples how to pr...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

1st Week of Lent 2025 - Tuesday - Minds made radiant with yearning for God

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 Listen again carefully to this morning’s Collect prayer, as it contains some profound lessons for our Lenten journey.  “Look upon your fami...