David Sandel

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...

Monday, October 6, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Pronto pup Take your worries and convert them into prayer. Take your fear and connect it with God’s fear. Take your depression and see it in the presence of God’s dying on the cross. Bring it to the Presence who has...

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 5, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) TSD The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” The Lord replied, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’...

Saturday, October 4, 2025 Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Francis Jesus said, “I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky. Behold, I have given you the power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and upon the full force of the enemy, and...

Friday, October 3, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) No longer alone When I pace back and forth in my cell, three steps forward and three steps back, hands in irons, ahead of me an unknown destiny, I understand very differently than before those ancient promises of the coming Lord...

Thursday, October 2, 2025 Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Accountable Do not despise one of these little ones, For I say to you that their angels in heaven Always look upon the face of my heavenly Father. On this day each October I remember...

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 Memorial of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Little flower The favoring hand of my God was upon me. Our word “prayer” begins in the Latin precor, to pray, beg or beseech, moving to French...

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 Memorial of Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Words (les mots) In those days ten men of every nationality, speaking different tongues, shall take hold, yes, take hold of every Jew by the edge of his garment and say,...