desiring God … listening, waiting
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas New Year’s Eve (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Knowing God In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025 Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Bag lady There was also a prophetess, Anna, who was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never...
Monday, December 29, 2025 Fifth Day in the Octave of Christmas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Depart in peace There was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and the Holy Ghost was upon him. When Jesus was eight days old, Joseph and Mary brought him to the temple....
Monday, December 29, 2025 Fifth Day in the Octave of Christmas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Depart in peace There was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and the Holy Ghost was upon him. When Jesus was eight days old, Joseph and Mary brought him to the temple....
Sunday, December 28, 2025 Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph Fourth Day in the Octave of Christmas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Gifts of the Magi As God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each...
Saturday, December 27, 2025 Feast of Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Hands on Beloved: What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon and touched with our hands concerns the Word of life. And...
Posted on Dec 26, 2025
Friday, December 26, 2025 Feast of Saint Stephen, First Martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Family gathering Driving home Christmas afternoon, it was obvious that life was gearing up again. Cars sped by us in the Austin traffic. The shepherds returned to the field … and we return to...
Thursday, December 25, 2025 Christmas Day (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Beginning … now So it was that the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And Mary brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 Christmas Eve (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Incarnation Zechariah his father, filled with the Holy Spirit, prophesied, saying: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; for he has come to his people and set them free. He has raised up for us a mighty Savior...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Oh, so soon First to John. The harbinger. Jesus’ cousin, the Nazarite hollerer, steel-eyed-righteous man of the desert. Like an oncoming, hungry crow, he darkened the horizon for Herod II and Herodias. Eventually Salome carried John’s head from the dance floor....
