Finding Your Spiritual Direction

Amos 8:4-7 1 Timothy 2:1-8 Luke 16:1-13 Everything we have is gift. The time and place and family into which I was born, my skills...

Numbers 21:4b-9 Philippians 2:6-11 John 3:13-17 Let's talk about love. Today is the Feast of The Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The...

Wisdom 9:13-18b Philemon 9-10, 12-17 Luke 14:25-33 For twenty years it was my privilege to direct the Catechumenate at my parish, to...

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 Several years ago, Elizabeth Nagel, writing a commentary about today’s readings...

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

Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23 Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11 Luke 12:13-21 “ Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich,...

Genesis 18:20-32 Colossians 2:12-14 Luke 11:1-13 It's all about prayer in today's scripture readings. From the bold bargaining...

Genesis 18:1-10a Colossians 1:24-28 Luke 10:38-42 Pity the priest who has to preach on today's gospel; it tempts us to take sides and...

Deuteronomy 30:10-14 Colossians 1:15-20 Luke 10:25-37 Today's gospel gives us the parable of the Good Samaritan. This is such a...

Isaiah 66:10-14c Galatians 6:14-18 Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 Remember those bracelets we wore years ago with the letters WWJD? Remember...

Acts of the Apostles 12:1-11 2 Timothy 4:6-8,17-18 Matthew 16:13-19 In today’s readings God demonstrates tremendous love and care for...

Genesis 14:18-20 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Luke 9:11b-17 Today’s Liturgical Celebration, The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, has me...

Proverbs 8:22-31 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15 Today we celebrate the solemnity of The Most Holy Trinity - the belief in a triune God,...

Acts 2:1-11 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Romans 8:8-17 John 20:19-23. or John 14:15-16, 23b-26 Now, in my mid-70’s,...

Acts 1:1-11 Ephesians 1:17-23 or Hebrews 9:24-28; 10:19-23 Luke 24:46-53 Today we are celebrating the Solemn Feast of the Ascension...

Acts 15:1-2, 22-29 Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23 John 14:23-29 It may seem strange during Eastertide to have a gospel from John's...

Acts 14:21-27 Revelation 21:1-5a John 13:31-33a, 34-35 During Eastertide many of our first readings concern Paul's missionary...

Acts 13:14, 43-52 Revelation 7:9, 14b-17 John 10:27-30 When I was a child I often heard my mother say "Virtue is its own reward.” At...