David Sandel

Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter, Mass in the Morning, May 27, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) How to become a friend Paul remained for two full years in his lodgings. He received all who came to him, and with complete assurance and without hindrance he proclaimed the...

Friday, May 26, 2023 Memorial of Saint Philip Neri, Priest (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) God’s waiting room I made no delay. Paul’s accusers stood around him with issues about their own religion and about a certain Jesus who had died, but who Paul claimed to be alive. I asked...

Thursday, May 25, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Let us not mock God with metaphor Wednesday morning. 6:50 a.m. Miss Molina said, “Lay down on your side, close to the edge of the table, and put your arm under this pillow. And I’ll take care of everything else.” Then...

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) In spite of it all, I’m able to grin Some of us are far too young to sing this Pete Seeger singalong song … How do I know my youth is all spent? My get up and go has got up...

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Paul cannot be leaving, no! Now compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem. What will happen to me there I do not know, except that in one city after another the Holy Spirit has been warning me that imprisonment...

Monday, May 22, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The land laments In this world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have overcome the world. In Romans 8 Paul writes about the earth, “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth,...

Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 21, 2023 The Ascension of the Lord (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The ever-contemporary hope of Julian of Norwich I experience my world when I move about in it. It seems small, somewhat ordered and contained. I feel contained within it, and more or less...

Saturday, May 20, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Ten minutes at a time Paul left Antioch and traveled in orderly sequence through the Galatian country. Ah! For a little while Paul was not being whipped and stoned! His perseverance was paying off. For now, he lived an orderly life....

Friday, May 19, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) One more day in the life When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that...

Thursday, May 18, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The Divine Conspiracy This very familiar title, of a book written by Dallas Willard, opens my ears to surprises from my even more familiar Bible. Dallas Willard died 10 years ago, after decades of philosophy professorship at USC and even more...