desiring God … listening, waiting
Tuesday, October 22, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Music infinity Sin increases, and grace overflows all the more. I had it in mind to write about passion and purity today, but then I heard Wynton Marsalis playing his trumpet and that triggered two or three, out of hundreds, memories...
Monday, October 20, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Barns, and bigger barns Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions. This was last week’s topic, and I guess it’s this week’s too. We must die to the...
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 19, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Give me a hand Moses was 80 years old. He spoke to Joshua, his much younger right-hand man, as they watched their enemies the Amalekites approaching them with swords, chariots and armor. (These are not, by the...
Saturday, October 18, 2025 Feast of Saint Luke, Evangelist (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Luke’s legacy The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few. Luke was a busy man. Physician, author, son, evangelist, he accompanied Paul to Rome, where he might have spent many days with Paul, who was...
Friday, October 17, 2025 Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Devotion So many people were crowding together that they were trampling one another underfoot. Paul knew “a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether...
Thursday, October 16, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) God’s economy What occasion is there then for boasting? When Jesus shares the parable of the rich man and his barns, he speaks to all of us. We are all rich with things of the world. For most of us it...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 Memorial of Saint Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Look and see Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of every garden herb, But you pay no attention to judgment and to...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Body and soul I exchange the truth of God for a lie. I revere and worship the creature rather than the creator, Who is blessed forever. Amen. Traveling took it out of me. I was having such a grand time, listening...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) On the road again For the next week or so devotions will be sporadic, because we’re traveling again, from Texas to Evansville to Champaign to Bloomington to Urbana to Springfield. And then home again home again jiggety-jig. Jonah’s travels took him...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Ritual In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, there is a small opening into the new day, which closes the moment you begin your plans. What you can plan is...
