by Lynne Marie | Feb 2, 2026 | Daily Reflections
A Link-up The Christmas season is over. Lent has not begun. In this feast, we look backward to Christmas and forward to Lent. The Blessing of the Candles begins: “Forty days ago, we celebrated the joyful feast of our Lord Jesus Christ. Today we recall the holy day on...
by Lynne Marie | Feb 1, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Being Humble and Grateful for Inclusion in the Church The Responsorial (Matthew 5:3 and Psalm 146) invites us to say and to mean: “Happy the poor in spirit,” not only because “the Kingdom of heaven is theirs,” but because God promises multiple blessings to those who...
by Lynne Marie | Jan 31, 2026 | Daily Reflections
In 2Samuel 12: 1-17 makes one thing clear to us: we don’t know anyone else’s deepest heart, and often not our own. When Nathan confronted David with his sin, what David revealed was that he despised what he had done. He wasn’t aware he was speaking of himself when he...
by Lynne Marie | Jan 30, 2026 | Daily Reflections
In 2Samuel 11:1-17, David hit bottom. His sin was not only adultery but rape, because when he summoned to his palace the wife of Uriah, one of his faithful officers deployed in battle, she couldn’t refuse. When she became pregnant, and David realized he couldn’t hide...
by Lynne Marie | Jan 29, 2026 | Daily Reflections
2Samuel 7: 18-29: There is something very interesting in David’s response to God’s promise. His focus is not on what it meant to himself, but on what it says about God: According to your own heart, you have wrought all this greatness, so that your servant may know...
