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Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 29, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Franciscan Would that all the people of the LORD were prophets. Would that the LORD might bestow his spirit on them all! In his 50 plus years of teaching and preaching, Kansas-born Franciscan friar and ecumenical teacher...
Saturday, September 28, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Putzing Follow the ways of your heart and vision of your eyes, but understand that God will bring you to judgment. During her college years, Christina Cannon took a trip on Route 66. She discovered a faith within herself that surprised...
Friday, September 27, 2024 Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Time To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven. Dad took naps at 1 pm for 20 minutes, whether under the tractor or lying face down in bed...
Thursday, September 26, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Dad’s favorite psalm What profit has a man from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun? Dad sat in a padded rocking chair in our family room, wearing his favorite red flannel shirt. His Christmas shirt. A bright...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Dental work Give me neither poverty nor riches, but provide me only with the food I need, lest being full, I deny you and say “Who is the Lord?” Or being in want, I steal, and profane the name of my...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Bold I have chosen the way of truth, I have set my heart on your laws. I hold fast to your statutes, O my Lord, do not let me be put to shame. I run in the path of your commands,...
Monday, September 23, 2024 Memorial of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest (20th century Franciscan also known as Padre Pio) (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) How to be born Refuse no one the good on which he has a claim when it is in your power to do it for him....
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 22, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) War and peace Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Perhaps that is a rhetorical question. James answers it immediately, with another question. Is it not from your passions that make...
Posted on Sep 21, 2024
Saturday, September 21, 2024 Feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle and evangelist (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) On the road along the river Grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. We walked through the Texas Military Museum, reading about war (one of which hoped...
Friday, September 20, 2024 Memorial of Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Heat Hide me in the shadow of your wings, that on waking I shall be content in your presence. On this last day of summer, I miss Illinois because while hot weather...
