by Lynne Marie | Sep 6, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time Seeing the Top from Below Isn’t it hard sometimes to understand God? What does he do and what does he ask us to do? This faces us with a fundamental choice of guidance systems: to rely ultimately on our own ability to understand...
by Lynne Marie | Sep 6, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Saturday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time The Responsorial (Psalm 54) gives the ultimate grounds for hope: “God himself is my help.” We may forget that one of the major truths Communion expresses is our reconciliation with God. Paul says in Colossians...
by Lynne Marie | Sep 5, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Friday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time The Responsorial (Psalm 100) invites us: “Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.” This is an invitation to Mass! We all know that in Communion we receive the “body and blood of Jesus Christ our Lord.” But do...
by Lynne Marie | Sep 4, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Thursday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time The Responsorial (Psalm 98) assures us: “The Lord has made known his salvation.” Do you have any doubts that it has been made known to you? In Colossians 1:9-14, Paul is continuing to thank God because “The Lord...
by Lynne Marie | Sep 3, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church The liturgical Instructions tell us that both the presider and the congregation should “spend some time praying privately” after all have received Communion. (General Instruction, no. 88). Paul’s letter to the...
by Lynne Marie | Sep 2, 2025 | Daily Reflections
64th Anniversary of the Ordination of David M. Knight in Lyon, France In the Mass, the Rite of Communion is a celebration, a preview, a foretaste of the “end time,” the eternal celebration of the “wedding banquet of the Lamb.” We know it is coming. We know that death...
