Complete list of December 2024 Daily Devotions with links December 1 Day One December 2 Amish December 3 Justice and joy December 4 Learning to walk in the dark December 5 I contain multitudes December 6 Together again, and the food is still hot December 7 Rain for the seed December 8 Candles December...
Jan 01, 2025
First day
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God The Octave Day of Christmas New Year’s Day (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) First day When eight days were completed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel before he...
Dec 31, 2024
I heard the bells
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 Seventh Day of Christmas New Year’s Eve (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) I heard the bells Children, it is the last hour. I can’t get Longfellow’s Christmas carol out of my thoughts. And today I notice the lectionary reprises the first verses of the Gospel of...
Dec 30, 2024
Anchorites
Monday, December 30, 2024 Sixth Day of Christmas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Anchorites Do not love the world or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Yet the world and its enticement are passing away. Like every...
Dec 29, 2024
See what love
Sunday, December 29, 2024 Fifth Day of Christmas Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) See what love God sets a father in honor over his children, and a mother’s authority he confirms over her sons. In his book of Chicago stories...
Dec 28, 2024
Unholy debt
Saturday, December 28, 2024 Fourth Day of Christmas Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Unholy debt A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled, since they were no more. The Holy Innocents?...
Dec 27, 2024
Three French hens
Friday, December 27, 2024 Third Day of Christmas Feast of Saint John, Apostle and evangelist (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Three French hens We are writing this so that our joy may be complete. We played Christmas Jeopardy, and I buzzed in on the question, “How many piping pipers are...
Dec 26, 2024
Stephen’s sacrifice
Thursday, December 26, 2024 Second Day of Christmas Feast of Saint Stephen, first martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Stephen’s sacrifice On the SECOND day of Christmas my true love gave to me … Or, in our most recent universe, this is the day AFTER Christmas. Will this festival continue...
Dec 25, 2024
We hear the bells on Christmas Day
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 The Nativity of the Lord Christmas Day The First Day of Christmas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) We hear the bells of Christmas day Hark! The sentinels raise a cry, together they shout for joy for they see the Lord restoring Zion. Break out together in...
Dec 24, 2024
Poetry from above
Tuesday, December 24, 2024 Christmas Eve (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Poetry from above Christmas scripture showers us with words as well as music: Mary’s Magnificat, Simeon’s Song, and today there is Zechariah’s priestly, historic, fatherly hymn of praise: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; for he...