by Lynne Marie | May 14, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Gift of Knowledge Knowledge is the gift of “practical know-how” in the spiritual life. What the Gift of Understanding helps us grasp in theory, the Gift of Knowledge helps us live out in practice. What is the best way not to be bored at Mass?...
by Lynne Marie | May 13, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Gift of Understanding Understanding is just that: the gift of understanding the truth God has revealed. We may learn and grow up believing many doctrines of our faith that “just don’t mean anything” to us. They don’t excite us,...
by Lynne Marie | May 12, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Gift of Wisdom Wisdom is “the habit of seeing everything in the light of our last end” Paul shows us Wisdom in action: I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord… This one thing I do… I press on...
by Lynne Marie | May 10, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Christians Live by The Spirit Christianity is the gift of divine Life. We live no longer by the flesh—human nature alone—but by the Spirit. Paul says, “If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.” It is those who are “led...
by Lynne Marie | May 10, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Celebrate in The Spirit We have seen that the Mass, like nothing else in Christianity, draws us together in the experience of relationship with the Father, Son, and Spirit. We are one in the Spirit: united with God and with each other in celebrating the death...
by Lynne Marie | May 9, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Tripod of Prayer The structure of the Mass reveals the Church’s consciousness of the Father, Son and Spirit. Mass begins “in the name of the Father… Son… Holy Spirit.” The intent of the Greeting is so clearly Trinitarian—”grace...
