by Lynne Marie | Apr 18, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Responsorial Psalm encourages us to entrust our lives totally to God: “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” (Psalm 31). Isaiah 52:13 to 53:12 is a song of victory that reveals the strategy of God. Jesus saves, not by using divine force against his...
by Lynne Marie | Apr 17, 2025 | Daily Reflections
This reflection is based on readings from the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. The Responsorial Psalm (Psalm 116 and 1Corinthians 10: 16) instructs us to respond to God through celebration: “The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of...
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...
