desiring God … listening, waiting
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 28, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Imposters Thus says the LORD the God of hosts: Woe to the complacent in Zion! Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall!...
Saturday, September 27, 2025 Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Righteous Run, tell this to that young man: People will live in Jerusalem as though in open country, because of the multitude of men and beasts in her midst. But I will be for...
Friday, September 26, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Jesus and the Temple Once when Jesus was praying in solitude, and the disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” Jesus is bursting with questions. Anne Rice wrote Christ the Lord: Out of...
Posted on Sep 25, 2025
Thursday, September 25, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Dylan, Haggai, Kierkegaard Consider your ways! Bob Dylan (born 5/24/1941) wrote and sang, “My money comes and goes, it rolls and flows through the holes in the pockets of my clothes. I’m walkin’ down the line.” Bobby Zimmerman (Dylan) attended Jewish...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) A fence Slaves we are, but in our servitude our God has not abandoned us; rather, he has turned the good will of the kings of Persia toward us. Thus he has given us new life to raise again the house...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 Memorial of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Temples King Darius issued an order to the officials: “Let the governor and elders of the Jews continue the work on that house of God; they are to rebuild it on its former site....
Monday, September 22, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Furrow Thus says Cyrus, king of Persia: ‘All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD, the God of heaven, has given to me, and he has also charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Therefore,...
Twenty-fifth Sunday on Ordinary Time, September 21, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Come Lord Jesus (now) Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land! Watching the Illini lose badly to the Indiana Hoosiers tonight was terribly depressing, so with the game minimized...
Saturday, September 20, 2025 Memorial of Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, and Paul Chŏng Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Awestruck Beloved: I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, to keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord...
Friday, September 19, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Journey Jesus journeyed from one town and village to another, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God. Accompanying him were the Twelve and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities. I have journals...
