by Lynne Marie | Apr 16, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Responsorial Psalm is the cry of a disciple who is also a teacher, but whose message is meeting with stubborn resistance and even arousing hostility. His response is: “Lord, in your great love, answer me” (Psalm 69). We do not prevail with human arguments...
by Lynne Marie | Apr 15, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Responsorial Psalm invites us to proclaim and celebrate the triumph of God’s saving truth, even when the world seems deaf to it: “I will sing of your salvation” (Psalm 71). Isaiah 49: 1-6 is an act of confidence in the face of apparent failure: “Though I thought I...
by Lynne Marie | Apr 14, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Responsorial Psalm associates salvation with knowledge of the truth: “The Lord is my light and my salvation” (Psalm 27). To grow into the fullness of the divine life Jesus gives us, we need to grow into the fullness of his light. We need to be disciples. In Isaiah...
by Lynne Marie | Apr 12, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Inventory Do I ever grow weary of praying? Of reading Scripture or reflecting on the word of God? Do I sometimes feel it is useless, that nothing ever comes of it? Do I ever feel that God just doesn’t care about me? Input The Responsorial Psalm is the first...
by Lynne Marie | Apr 12, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Responsorial Verse is: “The Lord will guard us as a shepherd guards his flock” (from Jeremiah 31:10-13). Ezekiel 37:21-28 is God’s solemn promise to restore unity among his People: “I will save them from all the apostasies into which they have...
by Lynne Marie | Apr 11, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Responsorial Psalm brings to mind a fundamental principle of the spiritual life, a truth we need to know: sometimes we enter into our deepest, most certain knowledge of God when he seems most far away. “In my distress I called upon the Lord and he heard my...
