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”...
by Lynne Marie | Jun 14, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity The Trinity and Us Since we are created in the image of God, it is obvious that we cannot really understand ourselves unless we understand God. And since Jesus has revealed that God is Trinity, we have to understand ourselves in...
