by Lynne Marie | Jan 3, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Saturday, Christmas Weekday 1John 2:29 to 3:6 tells us that the “world,” meaning those in whom faith is not enlightening, “does not recognize us.” As what? The answer is “children of God.” But John insists, “Yet that is what we are.” Do we recognize this ourselves?...
by Lynne Marie | Jan 2, 2026 | Daily Reflections
1John 2:22-28 exhorts us not to deny the grace we have received or the truth revealed to us. That truth is that Jesus Christ is God himself made flesh. “Whoever has seen [Jesus] has seen the Father” (John 14:9,12:45). And vice versa, “Anyone who denies the Son has no...
by Lynne Marie | Dec 31, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Solemnity of Mary, Holy Mother of God On the feast of Mary, Mother of God, which Pope Paul VI made the World Day of Peace, Saint Pope John Paul II proclaimed to the world three choices which lead to peace. Jesus taught all three to His mother as image and model of the...
by Lynne Marie | Dec 31, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Seventh Day of Christmas The Responsorial Psalm still invites us, “Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice” (Psalm 96). 1John 2:18-21 gives us an unexpected reason for rejoicing: “Many antichrists have appeared…. They went out from us, but…. their desertion...
by Lynne Marie | Dec 30, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Sixth day of Christmas The Responsorial Psalm invites us again, “Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice” (Psalm 96). 1John 2:2-17 tells us why: “because your sins have been forgiven… because you know him who is from the beginning… because you have conquered...
