by Lynne Marie | Oct 10, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time The Responsorial Psalm declares an enduring fact: “The Lord will judge the world with justice” (Psalm 9). In Joel 1:13 to 2:2, the “day of the Lord” doesn’t sound like a day to look forward to! “It comes as ruin...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 9, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Malachi 3: 13-20 tells us we have an either-or choice: to base our hope on what we see, or on what God says. And the key to it is our timeframe. At almost any moment in history, it seems to us that “the proud are...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 8, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time In Jonah 4: 1-11, Jonah is angry because God did not destroy Nineveh. He was thinking about that one city in Iraq, the way we once thought about the whole country: how evil and dangerous it was; what a threat it...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 7, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Responsorial Psalm invites us to recognize that we always need to change things in our lives and society: “If you, O Lord, laid bare our guilt, who could endure it?” (Psalm 130). In Jonah 3:1-10, when the people heard Jonah’s proclamation, they believed him. But...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 6, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time Jonah 1:1 to 2:11 shows us a man who, though a prophet, did not have the spirit of love and did not want to do God’s work in God’s way. To Jonah, the people of Nineveh were the enemy; he wanted God to destroy them....
