by Lynne Marie | Oct 25, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time In Romans 8: 1-11, Paul is teaching us that without grace, even if we are instructed about right and wrong and able to see the reasonableness of what God’s law requires, we are unable to keep from violating his...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 24, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Romans 7: 18-25 makes it clear that it isn’t enough just to know the laws of God. St. Paul said, “I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self, but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 23, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time In Romans 6: 19-23, Paul is talking about profit and loss. What do we get out of sinning? What do we get out of serving the Lord? If we are going to work for Christ as his stewards, what wage can we expect? ...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 22, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Romans 6: 12-18 tells us there is no neutral ground between serving God or serving sin. We must take sides positively and work for one or the other. “Do not present the parts of your bodies to sin as weapons for...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 21, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Tuesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time In Romans 5: 12-21 Paul explains that “just as through one man [Adam] sin entered the world, and with sin death,” so through the act of one man, Jesus Christ—his unique act of dying and rising from the dead all our...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 20, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Monday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time In Romans 4: 20-25, Paul holds up Abraham as an example—in fact, Israel’s prime example—of faith and hope in God: “Abraham did not doubt God’s promise in unbelief.” And as a result, “he was empowered by faith and gave...
