by Lynne Marie | Nov 18, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Responsorial (Psalm 3) gives support to fidelity: “The Lord upholds me.” In 2Maccabees 6:18-31, ninety-year-old Eleazar chose a brutal death rather than give a bad example to youth. He was being forced to open his mouth and eat pork, contrary to the Covenant....
by Lynne Marie | Nov 17, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Responsorial (Psalm 119) asks: “Give me life, O Lord, and I will do your commands.” 1Maccabees 1:10-64 presents us with the classic Christian choice, which is common to everyone who values fidelity to God, to principles, or even personal freedom over the rewards...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 15, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Being Stewards of Time Malachi 3:19-20 provides reassurance that the Lord really is coming. For all the “arrogant and evil doers” who exploit and oppress people now with maddening impunity, there will be a day of reckoning. They will have to give an account of their...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 15, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Saturday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time The Responsorial (Psalm 105) invites us: “Remember the marvels the Lord has done.” Wisdom 18:14 to 19:9 “remembers the marvels” God did just by his “all-powerful Word” sent into “the heart of a doomed land.” The...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 14, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Friday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time Wisdom 13:1-9 is an incredibly precise text philosophically, and an inspiringly beautiful one poetically. It speaks of how people, even without God’s special revelation, can and should experience God as the...
by Lynne Marie | Nov 13, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Jesus is sometimes called “Wisdom incarnate.” Wisdom 7:22 to 8:1 paints a picture of how beautiful Wisdom is, appearing in him. If we open our eyes, we will also see it in the Church, in each other, because Jesus is in us. His Wisdom, “passing into holy souls from age...
