David Sandel

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Learning to live in the second half God formed man to be imperishable; in the image of his own nature he made them. But by the envy of the Devil, death entered the world, and they who are in possession experience...

Monday, November 13, 2023 Memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Listen now, speak later Wisdom is a kindly spirit, yet she acquits not the blasphemer of his guilty lips; because God is the witness of his inmost self, the sure observer of his heart,...

Thirty-second Sunday of Ordinary Time, November 12, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Oil in the lamps Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five...

Saturday, November 11, 2023 Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop Veteran’s Day Miles 7th birthday (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Intimacy with everything Greet Priscilla and Aquilla, my co-workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their necks for my life. Perhaps because it’s November there are four conflicting activities on...

Friday, November 10, 2023 Memorial of Saint Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Dizzy with joy You breathe in gratitude, and you breathe it out, too. Once you learn how to do that, then you can bear someone who is unbearable. My...

Thursday, November 9, 2023  Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Sit in the quiet Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? And that the temple of God, which...

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Follow me I can’t get the great horned owl’s bright yellow eyes out of my mind. Saturday at the Austin Celtic Festival we clapped with step dancers and snapped to attention with bagpipers. We watched men and women throw big things...

Tuesday, November 7, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Joyful in hope, patient in affliction For Aki’s birthday meal at their home on Sunday (his birthday is today), we feasted on Indian food, some spicy, some not, rice and potatoes, paneer, lamb and chicken in several sauces, all of which...

Monday, November 6, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Your touch is Christ’s touch Brothers and sisters: The gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. Just as you once disobeyed God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, so they have now disobeyed in order that, by...

Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 5, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Maintain a space for peace Have we not all the one father? Has not the one God created us? Why then do we break faith with one another, violating the covenant of our fathers? This same Father...