David Sandel

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 Memorial of Saint Benedict, Abbott (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) High school memories Hide me in the shadow your wings. On waking, I shall be content in your presence. We’re hoping to see a musical tomorrow afternoon. The drama coaches of Brigadoon’s dress rehearsal at Brentwood...

Monday, July 10, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Jacob and the woman who was dripping blood Lineage leaks bile and honey. My lineage and yours, we all participate in this bath of good and evil, because just as everyone before us, we are fallen. Our children too, they catch...

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 9, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Seeking after what is good and true Rejoice, O daughter Zion, for your king shall come to you, and a just savior is he. “Take my yoke upon you,” he says, “and learn from me, for I...

Saturday, July 8, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Esau and Jacob This story seems likely to destroy God’s reputation. In Isaac’s old age his eyesight failed him. He planned to bless his older son Esau, but his wife Rebekah gave the clothes of Esau to her younger son Jacob...

Friday, July 7, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Now, now, be born again As Jesus passed by, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” And Matthew got up and followed him. In that moment Matthew died. In that moment...

Thursday, July 6, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Oh, those piccolos! Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to your name give glory because of your kindness, because of your truth. Our friend Amanda played the piccolo as well as the flute, and more than once we...

Wednesday, July 5, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Be swift my soul to answer him Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. Isaac grew, and on the day of the child’s weaning Abraham held a great feast. The neighborhood parade was short...

Tuesday, July 4, 2023 Independence Day in the USA (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) A wholistic kind of patriotism Early the next morning Abraham went to the place where he had stood in God’s presence. As he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, he saw dense smoke rising over the...

Monday, July 3, 2023 Feast of Saint Thomas, Apostle (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) How did Jesus read his Scriptures? Richard Rohr has been kind of a flame-thrower all his life, and now he has much to look back on and remind us of. A Catholic priest, he was a...

Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, July 2, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Christ-like-ness She said to her husband, “I know Elisha is a holy man of God, and he visits us often. Let us arrange a little room on our roof and furnish it for him with a bed,...