by Lynne Marie | Jun 21, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Saturday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time The Responsorial Psalm urges us: “Taste and see the goodness of the Lord” (Psalm 34). The readings show us how to identify and recognize God’s special goodness to us. In 2Corinthians 12: 1-10 Paul defends his ministry...
by Lynne Marie | Jun 20, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Friday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time The Responsorial Psalm gives us a needed assurance: “From all their distress God rescues the just” (Psalm 34). 2Corinthians 11: 18-30 gives an appalling list of what Paul’s ministry cost him: labors, imprisonments,...
by Lynne Marie | Jun 19, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Thursday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time The Responsorial Psalm gives us a guide for discerning true ministry from false: “Your works, O Lord, are justice and truth” (Psalm 111). In 2Corinthians 11: 1-11, Paul denounces people who were proclaiming a distorted...
by Lynne Marie | Jun 18, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Wednesday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time The Responsorial Psalm may surprise us: “Blessed is the one who fears the Lord” (Psalm 112). We don’t think of fear as a blessing. But if we read the rest of the Psalm, it tells us that those who “fear the Lord” will...
by Lynne Marie | Jun 17, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Tuesday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time The Responsorial Psalm encourages us: “Praise the Lord, my soul!” (Psalm 146), and the readings give us reasons based on faith and the experience of faith in action. In 2Corinthians 8: 1-9, Paul does not just praise the...
by Lynne Marie | Jun 16, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Monday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time The Responsorial Psalm declares the fruit of authentic Christian ministry: “The Lord has made known his salvation” (Psalm 98). The reading from 2Corinthians 6: 1-10 begins by saying that we “work together with him”...
