desiring God … listening, waiting
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Genealogy The book of genealogy of Jesus Christ. It starts with Abraham, this list of men ending with Joseph the husband of Mary, and “of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ.” Written perhaps for the Jews, Matthew the...
Monday, December 16, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Balaam Just to get this story straight. Balaam’s ass is a most famous animal, first of all because this donkey was carrying Balaam to curse the Israelites and saw an angel and refused to budge. Donkeys are like that anyway, but...
Third Sunday of Advent, December 15, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Prepare In spite of all I’m doing, my being is getting more quiet. Advent’s Holy Spirit is seeping in. The call of Gabriel to Mary and Elizabeth and their magnificent songs with each other, alongside the silence eventually...
Saturday, December 14, 2024 Memorial of Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Catching up How about if today I share some of the beautiful, mysterious, magical words I’ve been reading during Advent? I don’t have room for any more in...
Friday, December 13, 2024 Memorial of Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Vision Blessed are we when we delight in the law of the Lord and meditate on his law day and night. Once when we were retreating at Saint Meinrad’s Abbey near Evansville, Indiana I...
Thursday, December 12, 2024 Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Imagine Silence, all mankind, in the presence of the Lord, as he stirs forth from his holy dwelling. Usually this language is reserved for bears or lions,stirring forth from their caves. So that’s what I...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Advent lectio Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these things. Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is eternal, He is the creator of the ends of the earth. As the sun runs...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Thy kingdom come Comfort, comfort ye my people, says your God … If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the...
Monday, December 9, 2024 Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Look up Garrison Keillor, creator of Prairie Home Companion, is a sometimes crotchety 82-year-old Minnesotan living in Manhattan. He recently finished a book he called Cheerfulness. But his recent column on...
Second Sunday of Advent, December 8, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Candles God is leading Israel in joy by the light of his glory. I’m getting caught up on the daily scenes in our Paris Advent Calendar, and I think we’ll light an Advent candle today in our apartment...
