David Sandel

Sunday, January 26, 2025 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Embodied scripture My spiritual director Deb talked about the Examen on Friday. I shared my experiences with what I call antidotes to stinkin’ thinkin’, to monkey mind, to thoughts that fly around my brain like addled...

Saturday, January 25, 2025 Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, Apostle (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Singing Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. Years ago at Christmas Chris and a few of his wacky West Side Christian buddies descended on White Oaks Mall...

Friday, January 24, 2025 Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from January 24, 2022 … Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth David was thirty years old...

Thursday, January 23, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from January 23, 2022 … Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart Three readings for Sunday plus a psalm. Three stanzas of a poem, plus a...

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 Memorial of Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Three questions May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our hearts, that we may know what is the hope that belongs to our call. From Plough Magazine, a story...

Monday, January 20, 2025 Martin Luther King Day in USA (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Community first! He is able to deal patiently with the ignorant and erring, for he himself is beset by weakness. No one takes this “priesthood” upon himself but only when called by God. Just down...

Sunday, January 19, 2025 Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Winnie The Lord delights in you and makes your land his spouse. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you. Steve Garnaas-Holmes wrote about this God of ours, “Nothing is...

Saturday, January 18, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Approach the throne Let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace in times of trouble. Ten days after the Los Angeles fires burst open and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, the fires continue....

Friday, January 17, 2025 Memorial of Saint Anthony, Abbot (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Rise Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your mat and walk?’ Jesus did not hesitate to call the earth that God created “holy,” although...