by Lynne Marie | Dec 2, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Tuesday of the First Week of Advent Get to Know Jesus During Advent The root and beginning of all justice and peace, all renewal of Church, government, and society, is the knowledge of Jesus: his knowledge shared with us, our intimate knowledge of him as a person,...
by Lynne Marie | Dec 1, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Monday of the First Week of Advent Let Us Go, Rejoicing! The world may be torn by divisions and conflict. But those who attach themselves to Jesus Christ will find joy in life, even amid suffering, and arrive at the fulfillment Jesus promises: “life to the full”...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 29, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Wake-up! Matthew 24:37-44 is a wake-up call. It may be that, like ordinary people in our culture, we have been caught up in “eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,” earning a living, taking care of our physical fitness, keeping the house clean, getting...
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...
