by Lynne Marie | Oct 4, 2025 | Daily Reflections
“Look, Listen and Act” Habakkuk 1:1 to 2:4 begins with the prophet’s reproach to God: “Why do you not listen!” I cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not intervene. Why do you let me see ruin? Why must I look at misery? God’s answer is to tell...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 4, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi The Responsorial Psalm offers hope to all who know their need: “The Lord listens to the poor” (Psalm 69). Baruch 4: 5-29 gives us hope even when our sins have brought disaster on us. Our hope is based not on our behavior, but on...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 3, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time The Responsorial Psalm voices life-giving hope: “For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us” (Psalm 79). The restoration of Judaism in Jerusalem really began in Babylon, when the exiled Jews were spurred by the...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 2, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Memorial of The Holy Guardian Angels The Responsorial Psalm is a foundation for living: “The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart” (Psalm 19). In Nehemiah 8: 1-12 the foundation of the new Jewish nation was laid. The layman Zerubbabel, with Haggai and...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 1, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Memorial of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church The Responsorial Psalm pledges us to remember God’s work with love in order to continue it: “Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!” (Psalm 137). Nehemiah 2: 1-8 shows us a Jew who...
