desiring God … listening, waiting
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 31, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) My little grasshopper My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will find favor with God. Thinking...
Saturday, August 30, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Faithful Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you...
Friday, August 29, 2025 Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Set apart This is the will of God: your holiness. Being set apart (holy) is different from setting myself apart, which might stem from various psychological inadequacies. When God does the work,...
Thursday, August 28, 2025 Memorial of Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Church music We have been reassured about you, brothers and sisters, in our every distress and affliction, through your faith. For we now live, if you stand firm in the Lord....
Wednesday, August 27, 2025 Memorial of Saint Monica (Augustine’s mother) (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Gaslight Woe to you, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth. Even so, on the...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Separate but equal We are gentle among you, as a nursing mother cares for her children. With such affection for you, we are determined to share with you not only the good news of God, but our very selves as well,...
Monday, August 25, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Searchers Woe to you, blind guides! Jesus echoes Ezekiel, who warns prophets, teachers, pastors, mentors, counselors and guides against misguiding those who listen to them. Because they lead my people astray saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace, and because, when...
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 24, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Gather People will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the kingdom of God. Most religious communities celebrate the presence of God one way...
Saturday, August 23, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Obed Naomi had a prominent kinsman named Boaz. Ruth and Naomi had little food, and the tradition was to allow “gleaners” to gather wheat after the main crop was harvested. Naomi sent Ruth out to do this work, and she entered...
Friday, August 22, 2025 Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Unshaken Ruth said to Naomi, her mother in law, “Do not ask me to abandon or forsake you! For wherever you go, I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your...
