by Lynne Marie | Jul 26, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time The Entrance Antiphon gives us hope by reminding us, first of all, that God is and that he is “holy,” different from us. “God is in his holy dwelling.” And God gives us all we need: “a home to the lonely… power and strength to his...
by Lynne Marie | Jul 26, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Saints Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin The Responsorial Psalm paints a picture of a happy life on earth. It urges us: “Offer to God a sacrifice of praise,” but in the context of a community that recognizes God’s creation as “perfect in beauty,” his...
by Lynne Marie | Jul 25, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Feast of St. James, Apostle This James is named “the Greater,” or “Big James,” either because he was older, taller or called by Jesus before “James the Less” (“Little James”). James and John were Zebedee’s sons. Jesus nicknamed them Boanerges, “Sons of Thunder.” They...
by Lynne Marie | Jul 24, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Thursday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time The Responsorial Verse exhorts us to give God “Glory and praise forever” (Daniel 3: 52-56). St. Augustine said, “We cannot love what we do not know.” So the level of our praise and love will be determined by the level...
by Lynne Marie | Jul 23, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Feast of Saint Bridget, Religious The Responsorial Psalm declares: “The Lord gave them bread from heaven” (Psalm 24). How does God do this? Exodus 16: 1-15 may tell us where the word we translate as “daily bread” in the Our Father came from. It was apparently coined...
by Lynne Marie | Jul 22, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Feast of St Mary Magdalene The Responsorial Psalm declares, “Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory” (Exodus 15). How did killing the Egyptians glorify God? In Exodus 14:21 to 15:1, when the Israelites sang to God, “for he is gloriously triumphant;...
