Matthew 14:13-21 {Prayer} Never stop dating your spouse. That is one of the many things I talk about with couples in our pre-martial sessions. Never stop dating your spouse because you need that time together away from the kids, you need that time to grow in your relationship together, you need that time…
Romans 8:26-39, Matthew 13:31-52 In today’s Epistle lesson Paul writes to the Romans, you, and me – about the “LOVE of GOD”. It reads: 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day…
Isaiah 44:6-8 {Prayer} In “The Wounded Healer”, Henri Nouwen, a Dutch Catholic priest, retells a tale from ancient India: Four royal brothers decided each to master a special ability. Time went by, and the brothers met to reveal what they had learned. “I have mastered a science,” said the first, “by which I…
Ephesians 6:10-20 {Prayer} In his book, Fuzzy Memories, Jack Handey writes, “There used to be this bully who would demand my lunch money every day. Since I was smaller, I would give it to him. Then I decided to fight back. I started taking karate lessons, but the instructor wanted $5 a lesson.…
Matthew 10:34-42 {Prayer} Charlie Brown from the Peanuts cartoon can never catch a break. He is the stereotypical American loser. Whenever he tries to kick the football that Lucy is holding, just as he is about to kick it, she pulls it away at the last second. Charlie Brown misses it and goes…
2 Kings 18:1-8, 28-36 {Prayer} Different cartoons, TV shows, movies, and even commercials have used the figurative little angel sitting on or standing on or hovering above one’s shoulder while a little devil is doing the same thing on the other shoulder. Usually when we see this imagery used it is when an…
Matthew 10:5a, 21-33 {Prayer} Expectations … we all have them. Any new endeavor comes with a whole host of expectations. A high school graduate going off to college prepares to leave with a mash-up of hope and excitement but also a sense of nervousness. Some people change jobs mid-career because they are eager…
Matthew 9:35-10:8 {Prayer} If the Covid-19 pandemic taught us anything, it was that we are not meant to be separated from one another. We are not meant to be put into isolation. We are meant to be with other people, we are meant to be within a community. And not only is that…
Matthew 9:9-13 {Prayer} The central point, the main thing which the Christian faith is focused on is what? Jesus! In our catechism it says that “the Christian faith is the confession that Jesus Christ is the world’s only Savior and Redeemer.” In Acts 4, Peter is specifically talking about Jesus when he says…
Acts 2:14, 22-36 {Prayer} Each and everyone one of us gathered here is in a relationship with someone else. I’ll even go so far to say that each of us are in multiple relationships. I know, that may sound a bit risqué … but it’s true right? If you go on my…