Today’s Readings This Week’s Bulletin The Scriptures today continue to turn our hearts and minds toward prayer — not just words or rituals, but the whole person opening to God. In today’s Gospel, two people go to pray. The Pharisee, respected and devout, thanks God for his own goodness. The tax collector, despised and broken, Continue reading

Today’s Readings At the heart of Jesus’ preaching is the call to repentance — an invitation to turn away from sin and to return to God. To repent is not merely to feel sorrow, but to reorient our lives toward a deeper relationship with the Lord, striving to live according to His ways. It means Continue reading

Today’s Readings In today’s reading from Romans, St. Paul opens his heart and shares the inner struggle every disciple knows so well: “For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want” (Rom 7:19). His honesty is not a sign of despair but of deep faith. In admitting his Continue reading

Today’s Readings In today’s Gospel, Jesus says something that stops us in our tracks: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!” (Lk 12:49). These are not comfortable words. They remind us that the Christian life is not about staying safe or settled—it’s about letting Christ Continue reading

Today’s Readings In today’s reading from the Letter to the Romans, St. Paul reminds us that sin must no longer reign in our mortal bodies. He is writing to a community surrounded by vice and temptation—a world not unlike our own. The struggle was not only against the culture around them, but also within their Continue reading

Today’s Readings Prayer is something we all talk about, but many of us struggle to practice. What is prayer, really? St. John Damascene described it as “the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.” Yet prayer is far more than asking—it’s opening our hearts to the Continue reading

Today’s Readings Prayer is something we all talk about, but many of us struggle to practice. What is prayer, really? St. John Damascene described it as “the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.” Yet prayer is far more than asking—it’s opening our hearts to the Continue reading

Today’s Readings We receive an important and challenging lesson from the prophet Jonah today. We remember how Jonah fled when God first called him to preach repentance to the Ninevites. After God’s persistence, Jonah finally obeyed and went to Nineveh, proclaiming repentance. Yet today we find him sitting outside the city, waiting to watch its Continue reading

Today’s Readings We can all relate to Martha in today’s Gospel. There is so much that needs to get done. We wake up earlier, stay up later, and fill our days off—and even the Sabbath—with unfinished tasks and lingering responsibilities. Yet, despite all our effort, we rarely feel caught up. What we do manage to Continue reading

Reflection for Monday October 6 Today’s Readings St. Bruno heard the Lord’s call to leave the world behind, embracing poverty, silence, and solitude. Few are called to such a life, yet all of us are called to live simply and to keep Christ at the center of our lives. To live in the world but Continue reading