by Lynne Marie | Sep 1, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Monday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time In 1Thessalonians 4:13-18, Paul is talking about death, resurrection, and the final coming of Jesus—all themes that belong in the Rite of Communion of the Mass! Paul says Let’s be clear about death. Otherwise, we...
by Lynne Marie | Aug 30, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Could our desire to impress others, our “power trips,” and our insistence on receiving “the honor that is our due” all come from the same root? Could their common source be the radical insecurity that comes from our awareness, so...
by Lynne Marie | Aug 30, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Saturday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time In this week’s readings, including 1Thessalonians 4:9-11, Paul has paraphrased all nine “fruits of the Spirit.” This harmonizes with his discussion of the “end time” in the rest of the letter and his concluding...
by Lynne Marie | Aug 29, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist Paul couldn’t put it more bluntly than he does in 1Thessalonians 4:1-8: “It is God’s will that you grow in holiness.” When the Responsorial (Psalm 97) says, “Let the good rejoice in the Lord, it is taken for granted that...
by Lynne Marie | Aug 28, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church The Responsorial (Psalm 90) anticipates the joy that comes with arrival at the “perfection of love”: “Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy.” In 1Thessalonians 3:7-13, Paul can’t thank God enough...
by Lynne Marie | Aug 27, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Memorial of Saint Monica In 1Thessalonians 2: 9-13, Paul holds himself up as an example and gives an exhortation to the Church: He reminds them “how irreproachable our conduct was toward you” and how he “encouraged and pleaded” with them to imitate his example by...
