Original image • Click for news about the 2018 NALC Life Conference Today’s reading: Psalm 139:16 Would you care to venture a guess about the age and gender group that has, until very recently, the highest per-capita suicide rate? Surely...
Today’s readings: 1 Samuel 1:1-2, 7b-28; Colossians 1:9-20; Luke 2:22-40 “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel…” (Luke 2:34) These words were spoken by old Simeon as he encountered baby Jesus. Eight days...
Today’s readings: 1 Kings 17:17-24; 3 John 1-15; John 4:46-54 Our text from John’s gospel today proves once more that earthly status and influence cannot overcome the evils that befall humanity. All people, no matter who they are or the...
Today’s readings: 2 Samuel 23:13-17b; 2 John 1-13; John 2:1-11 The signs of the Messiah were outlined in Jewish tradition. One of those signs was abundance. As Isaiah proclaimed: “The LORD of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all...
Today’s readings: Isaiah 49:13-23; Isaiah 54:1-13; Matthew 18:1-14 On this Feast of the Holy Innocents, as we contemplate those infants put to death by Herod, the Church prays for the unborn and their parents. We hear Rachel weeping for her...
Today’s readings: Proverbs 8:22-30; 1 John 5:1-12; John 13:20-35 The world gets upset with us because we declare that Jesus is the only way of salvation. This was not the Church’s idea. It was God’s. He revealed to us his...
Today’s readings: 2 Chronicles 24:17-22; Acts 6:1-7; Acts 7:59-8:8 Jesus hung on a cross in unimaginable anguish and cried out, “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34). Today, we hear similar words from...
The Nativity of our Lord Christmas Day, December 25th In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him,...
The Nativity of our Lord Christmas Eve, December 24th And in that region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory...
Sunday of the Week of Advent IV “I will not allow my eyes to sleep, nor let my eyelids slumber; Until I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob…” “Let us go...