desiring God … listening, waiting
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...
Thursday, August 21, 2025 Memorial of Saint Pius X, Pope (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Vows The Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah. Or so it seemed. Jephthah, like David, was born out of wedlock, his mother a prostitute (Judges 11). Eventually his brothers drove him out of his...
Posted on Aug 20, 2025
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 Memorial of Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Four trees, four workers, four loves The word of God is living and effective, able to discern the reflections and thoughts of the heart. Yesterday’s hero Gideon, lover and loved by...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Forty-sixth The angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press to save it from the Midianites. We have never...
Monday, August 18, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Help! Israel offended and abandoned the Lord and followed other gods and worshiped them. This provoked the Lord and his anger flared up, and he delivered them over so that they fell into the power of their enemies. Whatever the nation...
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 17, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Mud In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood. Jeremiah lived in a time of strife in Jerusalem, to say the least. His prophecies put him on the wrong...
Saturday, August 16, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Grandsons You are my inheritance, O Lord. You will show me the path to life, fullness of joys in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever. You are my inheritance, O Lord. Jasper spent the day with us yesterday,...
Friday, August 15, 2025 Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) All of us From this day all generations will call me blessed: the Almighty has done great things for me and holy is his Name. He has mercy on those who fear...
Thursday, August 14, 2025 Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Kolbe Solitude is a way to get a little control over our own inner life. It’s not easy. Once we start spending time alone, we discover how chaotic our minds are. We start...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Moses went up Moses went up from the plains to Mount Nebo, and the Lord showed him all the land as far as the Western Sea, with the lowlands of Jericho, city of palms. Moses might have been an old guy...
