by Lynne Marie | Nov 11, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Memorial of St. Martin of Tours, Bishop Wisdom is the gift of “seeing everything in the light of the last end.” The Rite of Communion is the experience, in the foretaste of celebration, of what that “last end” actually is. It climaxes when the presider lifts the host...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 10, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Monday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time In Luke 17:1-6, Jesus acknowledges that even those who “abide in him” will sometimes do wrong. But we must forgive one another as he forgives, even “seven times a day.” What he urges us here above all, however, is that...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 8, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Stewardship of Hope Dying in Living Hope 2Maccabees 7:1-14 begins the story of the brutal martyrdom of seven brothers and their mother. The words of the first son grounded their courage in fidelity to God’s law, the Covenant heritage that gave identity to them...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 8, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Saturday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time In Romans 16:3-27, Paul is praising God for all the “co-workers in Christ” who, as “good stewards of the manifold grace of God,” worked with him to serve the Church “with whatever gift” each had received. He mentions...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 7, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Friday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time In Romans 15:14-21, Paul says he does “not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me.” Paul is doing what Peter said all Christians should do: “Like good stewards of the manifold grace of...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 6, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time In Romans 14:7-12, Paul uses the concept of stewardship to resolve the problem of judgmentalism within the Church. In his day, the “Judaizers” were condemning Gentile converts for accepting the freedom the Church gave...
