David Sandel

Friday, August 30, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) What are we going to watch tonight? The cross of Christ must not be emptied of its meaning. We watch a lot of films on Turner Classic Movies, produced mostly from the 1930s through the 1960s. Since the first successful movie...

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 Memorial of Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (St. Monica’s son)  (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Shabbat – Our day of truce There are days, and yesterday was such a one in Austin, when simply breathing in deep fills me up inside just like...

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 Memorial of Saint Monica (Mother of St. Augustine) (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Echoes in the East Frio Canyon The Lord is king. He has made the world firm, not to be moved. Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice. Driving south on US...

Monday, August 26, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Living with God in divorce We boast of you regarding your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions you endure. My friend and I were talking about the how to not just be mindful, but actually put the...

Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 25, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The gift of following Many of Jesus’ disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. In 1978 I read this and wondered, “Is this what I’m coming to?” Rev. Moon called his...

Saturday, August 24, 2024 Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Swimming stories He showed me Jerusalem coming down out of heaven, radiant, clear as crystal, twelve angels stationed at its twelve gates. The foundation for the city walls rested on twelve courses of stones, on which...

Friday, August 23, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Bones in the valley The hand of the Lord came upon me. And Ezekiel did not resist. He had left his priesthood in the temple far behind when he was deported to Babylon, and for decades in exile he excoriated the...

Wednesday, August 22, 2024 Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) John Donne, William Blake, Jeremiah and Ezekiel I will sprinkle clean water upon you and cleanse you from all your impurities and idols. I will give you a new heart and place...

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...