Reflections

November 28, 2025 Today's Reading: Catechism: Table of Duties - To Workers of All Kinds Daily Lectionary: Isaiah 2:1-22 ; Isaiah 3:1-4:6 ; 1 Peter 1:13-25 “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your hear...

November 27, 2025 Today's Reading: Luke 17:11-19 Daily Lectionary: Isaiah 1:1-28 ; 1 Peter 1:1-12 “[the lepers] lifted up their voices, saying, ‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.’” (Luke 17:13) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.  Today, we celebrate the blessed and historic feast of American Thanksgiving and try to keep the sarcasm off our faces. Pilgrims and Indians ate together, got along perfectly, a...

November 26, 2025 Today's Reading: Revelation 22:1-21 Daily Lectionary: Daniel 6:1-28 ; Daniel 9:1-27 ; Revelation 22:1-21 “Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.” (Revelation 22:14) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.   The Bible ends with hope. Christ will return soon. The faithful pray, “Amen. Come Lor...

November 25, 2025 Today's Reading: Colossians 1:13-20 Daily Lectionary: Daniel 5:1-30 ; Daniel 7:1-8:27 ; Revelation 21:9-27 “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.” (Colossians 1:15) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.   This is what God looks like. Jesus. And you’ll only see it here. On account of the “image of the invisible God” part. We rush to creation to find evidence...

November 24, 2025 Today's Reading: Malachi 3:13-18 Daily Lectionary: Daniel 4:1-37 ; Revelation 21:1-8 “You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts?” (Malachi 3:14) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.   It doesn’t seem to be going any better for the faithful than they were when Malachi wrote. We aren’t marked...

November 23, 2025 Today's Reading: Luke 23:27-43 Daily Lectionary: Daniel 3:1-30 ; Revelation 20:1-15 “One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, ‘Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!’But the other rebuked him, saying, ‘Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but th...

November 22, 2025 Today's Reading: Introit for Pentecost 24 - Psalm 134; antiphon: Psalm 33:8 Daily Lectionary: Daniel 2:24-49 ; Revelation 19:1-21 “ Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord,  who stand by night in the house of the Lord! Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord! May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth!... Let all the earth fear the L...

November 21, 2025 Today's Reading: Daniel 2:1-23 Daily Lectionary: Daniel 2:1-23 ; Revelation 18:1-24 “Daniel answered and said: ‘Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;  he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what i...

November 20, 2025 Today's Reading: Catechism: Table of Duties - To Children Daily Lectionary: Daniel 1:1-21 ; Matthew 28:1-20 “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and your mother’—which is the first commandment with a promise—’ that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life in the Earth.’ Eph. 6:1-3” (Catechism, Table of Duties: To Children...

November 19, 2025 Today's Reading: Jeremiah 38:1-28 Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 38:1-28 ; Jeremiah 39:1-44:30 ; Matthew 27:57-66 “So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.” (Jeremiah 38:6) In the Name + of Jesu...

November 18, 2025 Today's Reading: 2 Thessalonians 3:(1-5) 6-13 Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 37:1-21 ; Revelation 17:1-18 ; Matthew 27:33-56 “May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that...

November 17, 2025 Today's Reading: Malachi 4:1-6 Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 33:1-22 ; Jeremiah 34:1-36:32; 45:1-51:64 ; Matthew 27:11-32 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destructio...

November 16, 2025 Today's Reading: Luke 21:5-28 (29-36) Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 31:1-17, 23-34 ; Revelation 16:1-21 ; Matthew 27:1-10 “[Jesus said,] ‘And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,  people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of...

November 15, 2025 Today's Reading: Introit for Pentecost 23 - Psalm 121:1-2, 5, 7-8; antiphon: Luke 21:33 Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 30:1-24 ; Revelation 15:1-8 ; Matthew 26:57-75 “The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand.” (Psalm 121:5) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. “The Lord is your keeper.” Wow! Now that’s a promise to grab onto. Not just any lord, but The Lord is your...

November 14, 2025 Today's Reading: Matthew 26:36-56 Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 29:1-19 ; Revelation 14:1-20 ; Matthew 26:36-56 “Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?’” (Matthew 26:53-54)  In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Jesus is praying, the disciples are sle...

November 13, 2025 Today's Reading: Catechism: Table of Duties - To Parents Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 26:1-19 ; Revelation 13:1-18 ; Matthew 26:20-35 “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” (Ephesians 6:4) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Thank God for our parents. Without them, we wouldn’t be here. It pleased God to continue...

November 12, 2025 Today's Reading: Matthew 26:1-19 Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 25:1-18 ; Matthew 26:1-19 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.” (Matthew 26:2) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. The hour has come; the time is at hand. The Son of Man is hours away from his cross. Jesus knew this, yet his disciples refused to believe...

November 11, 2025 Today's Reading: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8, 13-17 Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 23:21-40 ; Matthew 25:31-46 “To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (2 Thessalonians 2:14) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. God has made a decision for you. Do you realize that? God has made a choice for you and has called you to Himself. Do you slo...

November 10, 2025 Today's Reading: Exodus 3:1-15 Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 23:1-20 ; Matthew 25:14-30 “God also said to Moses, ‘Say this to the people of Israel: “The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’” (Exodus 3:15a) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. We have a God who hears us; he never plugs his ears to our cries for help....

November 9, 2025 Today's Reading: Luke 20:27-40 Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 22:1-23 ; Matthew 25:1-13 “ Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.” (Luke 20:38) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Dead men don’t rise. That’s what common sense will tell you. Dead is dead! That’s what the Sadducees would have told you. Even though they were a Jewish sect, they did not believe in...

November 8, 2025 Today's Reading: Introit for Pentecost 22 - Psalm 115:2-4, 8, 17-18; antiphon: Psalm 115:11 Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 20:1-18 ; Matthew 24:29-51 “You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield. “ (Psalm 115:11) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. “Stop! Don’t do it!” Wouldn’t you scream those words if someone you cared about was about to make a bad decision...

November 7, 2025 Today's Reading: Matthew 24:1-28 Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 11:1-23 ; Jeremiah 12:1-19:15 ; Matthew 24:1-28 “But the one who endures to the end will be saved.” (Matthew 24:13) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. One of the perks of being a disciple was that you could ask Jesus questions when you had some alone time with him. Jesus was sitting down on the Mount of Olives, which provided...

November 6, 2025 Today's Reading: Catechism: Table of Duties - To Wives Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 8:18-9:12 ; Matthew 23:13-39 “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.” (Ephesians 5:22) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. God’s gifts come in all sorts of packages. Think about Adam; the first gift God gave him was the gift of life. Adam was then given a garden to take care of, and from it, he rec...

November 5, 2025 Today's Reading: Jeremiah 7:1-29 Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 7:1-29 ; Matthew 23:1-12 “So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.” (Jeremiah 7:27) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. God called Jeremiah to speak some hard words to hardened hearts. God was persistent. He kept sending His messengers to...

November 4, 2025 Today's Reading: 2 Thessalonians 1:1-5 (6-10) 11-12 Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 5:1-19 ; Matthew 22:23-46 “We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.” (2 Thessalonians 1:3) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Paul was persistent. He was a man on a mission,...