by Lynne Marie | Oct 13, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time In Romans 1: 1-7, Paul makes it clear that he is not just preaching because he feels inclined to do so. His message is “the gospel [good news] of God,” and he has been called, “set apart” to proclaim it. And those to...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 11, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Realization through Expression In the story of 2Kings 5: 14-17, Naaman made a common mistake. When he asked Elisha to cure him and was told to just go wash in the river, he did not think that was impressive enough: “I thought that for me he would surely come out,...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 11, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time If the word “judgment” sounds negative to us, we may be making some false assumptions. When Joel 4: 12-21 says, “Near is the day of the Lord, the valley of decision,” he continues: “The heavens and the earthquake,...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 10, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time The Responsorial Psalm declares an enduring fact: “The Lord will judge the world with justice” (Psalm 9). In Joel 1:13 to 2:2, the “day of the Lord” doesn’t sound like a day to look forward to! “It comes as ruin...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 9, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Malachi 3: 13-20 tells us we have an either-or choice: to base our hope on what we see, or on what God says. And the key to it is our timeframe. At almost any moment in history, it seems to us that “the proud are...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 8, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time In Jonah 4: 1-11, Jonah is angry because God did not destroy Nineveh. He was thinking about that one city in Iraq, the way we once thought about the whole country: how evil and dangerous it was; what a threat it...
