David Sandel

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 Memorial of Saint Pius X, Pope (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Who is pasturing whom? Should not shepherds, rather, pasture sheep? You have fed off their milk, worn their wool, and slaughtered the fatlings, but the sheep you have not pastured. And these are not just...

Tuesday August 20, 2024 Memorial of Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Put your arms around the world Jesus Christ became poor although he was rich, so that by his poverty we might become rich. In his remarkable book The Naked Now, Richard...

Monday, August 19, 2024 Our 45th wedding anniversary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Our Sunday morning wedding What must I do to gain eternal life? In 1978 Margaret had finished her last seminary classes at Lincoln Christian Seminary and I was just leaving my two-year stint in the Unification Church....

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 18, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures)  You’re only as smart as your emotions Wisdom has built her house and calls out to us, “Forsake foolishness that you may live, and advance in the way of understanding.” When I think of emotions I think...

Saturday, August 17, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Badminton at the beginning and in the end Create in me a clean heart, O God. On Fridays we get to spend the day with Miles and Jasper, if their Thursday homework is finished and we are healthy. Both requirements were...

Friday, August 16, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Covenant remembered On Wednesday I spent an hour with Debra, my spiritual director. We talked about family, and I found much to say about my dad. I see him easily in my mind’s eye, in blue jeans, blue work shirt and...

Thursday, August 15, 2024 Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Mary on earth and in heaven The bible stories of Mary the mother of Jesus do not begin with her birth. Instead in Luke 1 she comes to God’s attention, who sends...

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) For all generations Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven. Generation after generation each have the opportunity to call Him blessed. But so often they would not. WE would not. But we have...

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) First day of school The Lord God said to me, obey me when I speak to you, do not be rebellious as is the house around you. Just open your mouth and eat what I shall give you. And I received...

Monday, August 12, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Ezekiel saw the wheel Praise the Lord from the heavens Praise him in the heights Praise him all you his angels Praise him all you his hosts! During the closing artistic musical of the Olympics, a golden voyager and his archaeologists...