by Lynne Marie | Sep 25, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Thursday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time The Responsorial Psalm gives us a reason for worshipping together with celebration: “The Lord takes delight in his people” (Psalm 149). In Haggai 1: 1-8, the Persian king Darius II gave permission to resume building...
by Lynne Marie | Sep 24, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Wednesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Ezra 9: 5-9 gives us Ezra’s prayer in response to a report that “Neither the Israelite laymen nor the priests… have kept themselves aloof from the peoples of the land and their abominations…. Furthermore, the leaders...
by Lynne Marie | Sep 23, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Tuesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time The Responsorial Psalm is: “I rejoiced when I heard them say: let us go to the house of the Lord” (Psalm 122). Ezra 6: 7-20 reports the dedication of the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. This was the work of the whole...
by Lynne Marie | Sep 22, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Monday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Ezra 1: 1-6 tells how Cyrus, king of Persia from 538 to 529 B.C., let the Jews exiled in Babylon return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple. Isaiah calls Cyrus God’s “anointed,” made victorious because God was using him...
by Lynne Marie | Sep 20, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Sunday of the Twenty-fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time We Are Called To Responsibility A major element in human living is awareness. It is the attitudes, values, and goals we are most aware of that find most constant expression in our actions. And conversely, it is...
by Lynne Marie | Sep 20, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Memorial of Sts. Andrew Kim Tae-gon, Priest, and Paul Chong Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs 1Timothy 6:13-16 is our last reading from 1Timothy. And it is the “Great Commission” to faithful stewardship. Paul begins solemnly: Before God, who gives life to all, and...
