David Sandel

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 Memorial of Saint Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) This girl Teresa and that boy John It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not submit again to the yoke of...

Monday, October 14, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Fire As a twelve year old I took out the trash and burned it on my own. Mom trusted me, and she didn’t want to do it. We lived in the country, and there were no rules about burning garbage. In...

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 13, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Reunion Fill us at daybreak with your kindness, that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days. Let your work be seen by your servants and your glory by their children. When you add up...

Saturday, October 12, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Babies There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. This egalitarian attitude is beset on all sides, but it remains true. Economically...

Friday, October 11, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures)  Dark trust If it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you. This image overwhelms my imagination. The Kingdom of God isn’t Republican or Democrat, that’s for sure. The...

Thursday, October 10, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Chocolate Ask and you will receive. No God is not my sugar daddy. He might not care about my Christmas list, or my shopping list of any list I present to him. God is bigger than me, and his lists are...

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 Margaret’s birthday! (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Mercy Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. I was a kid mowing Grandma’s grass with a gas mower, powered up and rolling strong through her green backyard grass. “Oh, for mercy’s sake,” she...

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Fearfully made Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way. My best high school buddy Jim, now 75 as I soon will be, had lunch with me and we talked about death. Why not? We’re both interested. His sister is about to...

Monday, October 7, 2024 Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures)   While I’m traveling from Austin to Urbana, here are three days of devotions from these same dates in 2022 … October 7, 2022 Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary             (click here...

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 6, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures)   While I’m traveling from Austin to Urbana, here are three days of devotions from these same dates in 2022 … October 6, 2022             (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Don’t make stupid...