by Lynne Marie | Oct 7, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Responsorial Psalm invites us to recognize that we always need to change things in our lives and society: “If you, O Lord, laid bare our guilt, who could endure it?” (Psalm 130). In Jonah 3:1-10, when the people heard Jonah’s proclamation, they believed him. But...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 6, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time Jonah 1:1 to 2:11 shows us a man who, though a prophet, did not have the spirit of love and did not want to do God’s work in God’s way. To Jonah, the people of Nineveh were the enemy; he wanted God to destroy them....
by Lynne Marie | Oct 4, 2025 | Daily Reflections
“Look, Listen and Act” Habakkuk 1:1 to 2:4 begins with the prophet’s reproach to God: “Why do you not listen!” I cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not intervene. Why do you let me see ruin? Why must I look at misery? God’s answer is to tell...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 4, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi The Responsorial Psalm offers hope to all who know their need: “The Lord listens to the poor” (Psalm 69). Baruch 4: 5-29 gives us hope even when our sins have brought disaster on us. Our hope is based not on our behavior, but on...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 3, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time The Responsorial Psalm voices life-giving hope: “For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us” (Psalm 79). The restoration of Judaism in Jerusalem really began in Babylon, when the exiled Jews were spurred by the...
by Lynne Marie | Oct 2, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Memorial of The Holy Guardian Angels The Responsorial Psalm is a foundation for living: “The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart” (Psalm 19). In Nehemiah 8: 1-12 the foundation of the new Jewish nation was laid. The layman Zerubbabel, with Haggai and...
