by Lynne Marie | Nov 29, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Saturday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time The readings call us to persevere as “faithful stewards,” in faith, fidelity, and confidence, until Christ comes again. For this we pray in the Our Father: “Subject us not to the trial (“hard testing”), but deliver...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 28, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time The theme of the readings is that Christ’s victory is final, complete, and will last forever. In the Rite of Communion, we celebrate this by anticipation as an accomplished fact. This calls us to abandon all we are and...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 27, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Thursday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time: Thanksgiving Day Church custom used to encourage people to spend about fifteen minutes after Mass in “thanksgiving” for Communion. This may have begun in the days when frequent Communion was frowned upon as too...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 26, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Wednesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time The theme of the readings is bearing prophetic witness to truth in action. We “present our bodies” for this mission at the Presentation of Gifts. Our cry of dedication is, “Thy Kingdom come!” The story in Daniel...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 25, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Tuesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Daniel 2:31-45 is introduced by the last line of yesterday’s reading: “In any question of wisdom or prudence which the king put to [Daniel and his companions] he found them ten times better than all the magicians and...
