Daily Reflections
The Christian religion presents the greatest aspiration of the human person as that of seeing the face of God. This is called the beatific vision. It is the summum bonum (the highest good). The Psalmist of Psalm 42:2 cries out: “My soul thirsts for God, the living God, when can…
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The title “king” naturally has a political implication. It is no surprise that Jesus’s contemporaries expected a political king in the Messiah. The Messiah was to be the son of King David, and his kingdom was to have no end. All of this is easily translated into anyone’s mind to…
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From time immemorial, the reproduction of likes is the ordered nature of beings as God created them, male and female. He made them, and they come together to produce their offspring according to their distinct species. Man and woman, being rational beings unlike others, do this in a very respectable,…
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The Gospel reading today brings me to reflect on the universal calling and the Mystical Body of Christ- one body with many individual parts as He intended (1 Cor. 12). The Church is what Christ instituted on the Cross. He gave Himself to the entirety of humanity. The gift of…
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A People Who Wait: I sat beneath the vine this morning and cried out from the depths of my heart to the Lord. We are used to waiting, but in these times, I felt more than ever as though our people have grown weary of waiting. How long Lord? How…
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As we advance toward the culmination of the liturgical year, we hear another Gospel reading in which Jesus conveys that we must render an account for our lives when we die. This message harmonizes with Catholic teaching that we are justified—and thus saved—by faith and good works. Protestant apologists counter…
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The readings for today exhort us to persevere in striving for holiness, remaining watchful and being faithful. In the gospel, Zacchaeus’s seeking is matched by Jesus’s own quest for wandering souls with the aim of bringing them back to the fold. For the Son of Man has come to seek…
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Today’s gospel from Luke is a story from when Jesus is walking through Jericho, the crowds are following him, and on the roadside is a beggar. He is not only poor, he is blind. He hears the crowd and asks what is going on. Once he finds out Jesus is…
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There is nothing that lights up the embers of my soul quite like our Lord’s title, Christ the King. The crisp, cutting alliteration brings my imagination to the days of old when men would suit up in mesh metal mail and unsheathe their silver swords to battle for love of…
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“Pray always without becoming weary.” -Luke 8: 1 This thought-provoking message is repeated in 1 Thessalonians 5: 17: Pray without ceasing! The parable Jesus shares in today’s Gospel is to teach this lesson: Pray always! Have we ever wondered or meditated upon what this means? How can we truly pray…
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