David Sandel

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 18, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures)  You’re only as smart as your emotions Wisdom has built her house and calls out to us, “Forsake foolishness that you may live, and advance in the way of understanding.” When I think of emotions I think...

Saturday, August 17, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Badminton at the beginning and in the end Create in me a clean heart, O God. On Fridays we get to spend the day with Miles and Jasper, if their Thursday homework is finished and we are healthy. Both requirements were...

Friday, August 16, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Covenant remembered On Wednesday I spent an hour with Debra, my spiritual director. We talked about family, and I found much to say about my dad. I see him easily in my mind’s eye, in blue jeans, blue work shirt and...

Thursday, August 15, 2024 Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Mary on earth and in heaven The bible stories of Mary the mother of Jesus do not begin with her birth. Instead in Luke 1 she comes to God’s attention, who sends...

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) For all generations Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven. Generation after generation each have the opportunity to call Him blessed. But so often they would not. WE would not. But we have...

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) First day of school The Lord God said to me, obey me when I speak to you, do not be rebellious as is the house around you. Just open your mouth and eat what I shall give you. And I received...

Monday, August 12, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Ezekiel saw the wheel Praise the Lord from the heavens Praise him in the heights Praise him all you his angels Praise him all you his hosts! During the closing artistic musical of the Olympics, a golden voyager and his archaeologists...

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 11, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Even a second time, declares the Lord For the second time the angel came to him with food and water. Elijah got up, ate and drank, and strengthened, he walked forty days and forty nights to the...

Saturday, August 10, 2024 Feast of Saint Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) A different kind of week in Austin Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness and so fully aware of God’s even greater...

Friday, August 9, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Everything comes out all right in the end Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever...