August 3, 2017 Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 404 EX 40:16-21, 34-38 PS 84:3, 4, 5-6A AND 8A, 11 MT 13:47-53 I was just watching the movie Moana again. This time I was watching it in Spanish. I figured since I know most of the dialogueContinue Reading
August 2, 2017 Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 403 EX 34:29-35 PS 99:5, 6, 7, 9 MT 13:44-46 I saw a dad joke online today that I thought was amusing. “I lost my mood ring. I’m not sure how I feel about that.” Those rings wereContinue Reading
August 1, 2017 Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Lectionary: 402 EX 33:7-11; 34:5B-9, 28 PS 103:6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13 MT 13:36-43 I’ve been thinking a great deal about my grandfather Jim lately. He used to join us in our journeys into the world. FromContinue Reading
July 31, 2017 Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest Lectionary: 401 EX 32:15-24, 30-34 PS 106:19-20, 21-22, 23 MT 13:31-35 I’m not here to make friends. That was part of my erroneous motto when I first became an electrical foreman. The companies had sent me out to get aContinue Reading
July 28, 2017 Friday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 399 EX 20:1-17 PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11 MT 13:18-23 In the desert, God gave this nomadic tribe of warriors ten simple commandments to live by. We have spent thousands of years unpacking that decade of seemingly elementaryContinue Reading
July 30, 2017 Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 109 1 KGS 3:5, 7-12 PS 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130 ROM 8:28-30 MT 13:44-52 All of humanity yearns for an encounter with the divine. Even those who profess atheism are designed to yearn for God. As Saint Augustine once phrasedContinue Reading
July 26, 2017 Memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary Lectionary: 397 EX 16:1-5, 9-15 PS 78:18-19, 23-24, 25-26, 27-28 MT 13:1-9 My ten year old and I have been going to Mass together the last few days. I don’t force her to go toContinue Reading