David Sandel

Tuesday, August 15, 2023 Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Love and be grateful to Mary for her Son A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head...

Monday, August 14, 2023 Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) School is starting up again! Glorify the Lord and praise your God, for he has strengthened the bars of your gates and he has blessed the children within you. All our grandkids are...

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 13, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Listen to the whispers of God Go outside and stand on the mountain. The Lord will be passing by. We sit sometimes and wait for satellites to fly by in the night, or even meteors. We have...

Saturday, August 12, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) A few games of Uno on a very hot Texas night Here, O Israel, The Lord is our God, the Lord alone! Outside the window, as the wind picked up at the end of our 35th consecutive 100 degree day, beautiful...

Friday, August 11, 2023 Memorial of Saint Clare, Virgin (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Moses speaks in the desert There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. But Moses, 120 years old, will taste death. The book...

Thursday, August 10, 2023 Feast of Saint Lawrence, deacon and martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The abundance of Deacon Lawrence God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make every grace abundant for you. Looking closely, you could see a twinkle in his eye. Four days earlier...

Wednesday, August 9, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Here in the desert shall your dead bodies fall We have moved on from the disaster that overtook the Israelites in the Desert of Sin. Their community was destroyed by their disobedience and bitterness; everyone over twenty would die before the...

August 8, 2023 Memorial of Saint Dominic, Priest (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) My soul’s ear, listening up against the wall Miriam and Aaron, Moses’ siblings, spoke against Moses. “Is it through Moses alone that the Lord speaks? Does he not speak through us also?” Moses didn’t hear their whispers,...

August 7, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Call off thoughts awhile I went to church yesterday. I got lots of hugs. So many friends asked me how I was doing. They prayed for me, and were very glad to see me. No one expected to see me there, and...

Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, August 6, 2023 Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Here is a lamp shining in a dark place Thrones were set up and the Ancient One took his throne. At the hospital my blood pressure guy, David Zachary, said,...