by Lynne Marie | Nov 14, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Friday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time Wisdom 13:1-9 is an incredibly precise text philosophically, and an inspiringly beautiful one poetically. It speaks of how people, even without God’s special revelation, can and should experience God as the...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 13, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Jesus is sometimes called “Wisdom incarnate.” Wisdom 7:22 to 8:1 paints a picture of how beautiful Wisdom is, appearing in him. If we open our eyes, we will also see it in the Church, in each other, because Jesus is in us. His Wisdom, “passing into holy souls from age...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 12, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Wisdom 6:1-11 warns us that it is extremely dangerous for anyone to have power and prestige. Those in power are subject to “a rigorous scrutiny,” even though—or because—their “authority was given by the Lord.” “For the lowly may be pardoned out of mercy, but the...
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...
