Finding Your Spiritual Direction

2 Kings 5:14-17 2 Timothy 2:8-13 Luke 17:11-19 Today’s Gospel from Luke really got me thinking! How often do I have what is, in my...

Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14 Luke 17:5-10 Today I choose to focus on the very profound reading from Habakkuk. It...

Amos 6:1a, 4-7 1 Timothy 6:11-16 Luke 16:19-31 Today's gospel offers us two very different characters: the “rich" man, who is...

Amos 8:4-7 1 Timothy 2:1-8 Luke 16:1-13 I've always had a difficult time finding anything commendable in this dishonest steward....

Ex. 32:7-11, 13-14 1 Tim. 1:12-17 Luke 15:1-32 Today, the lectionary gives us three stories of lost and found. The shepherd loses and...

Wisdom 9:13-18b Phlm 9-10, 12-17 Luke 14:25-33 “Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.“ Those...

Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a Luke 14:1, 7-14 Humility - our readings today teach us about this wonderful, often...

Isaiah 66:18-21 Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 Luke 13:22-30 There are at least two different (but complimentary) themes at work in today’s...

Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 Hebrews 12:1-4 Luke 12:49-53 Elizabeth Nagel, writing the commentary about today’s readings in our Lector...

Wisdom 18:6-9 Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 or 11:1-2, 8-12 Luke 12:32-48 or 12:35-40 I imagine each of us has certain specific biblical passages...

Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23 Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11 Luke 12:13-21 Reflecting on the scriptures “ Take care to guard against all greed, for...

Genesis 18:20-32 Colossians 2:12-14 Luke 11:1-13 Reflecting on the scriptures Everything I know about prayer I learned in fifth grade...

Genesis 18:1-10a Colossians 1:24-28 Luke 10:38-42 The first part of today's reflection is written to the women: Ladies, today we have...

Deuteronomy 30:10-14, Colossians 1:15-20 Luke 10:25-37 In today's gospel we get to eavesdrop on a conversation between Jesus and a...

Isaiah 66:10-14c Gal. 6:14-18 Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 or 10:1-9 In today's gospel we hear Jesus appoint seventy-two disciples to go ahead...

1 Kings 19:16b, 19-21 Galatians 5:1,13-18 Luke 9:51-62 There are days when the liturgical readings do not, at first glance, do much for...

Genesis 14:18-20 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Luke 9:11b-17 In today’s readings, especially the gospel, we are reminded of the magnificence...

Proverbs 8:22-31 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15 No sooner had Christianity begun to spread throughout the then- known world than the...

Acts 2:1-11, 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13, Romans 8:8-17 John 20:19-23 John 14:15-16, 23b-26 Reflecting on the scriptures: With...

Acts 7:55-60 Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20 John 17:20-26 Recently we as a nation commemorated the tragic loss of 1 million lives to...