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Our Scriptures today emphasize the Jewish roots of our Eucharist. In the Gospel Jesus asked his disciples to prepare the Passover meal where he would give them his body and blood as food.
We can get bogged down in our troubles and begin to see the world in a negative light. It’s then that we need to go to our faith and our experience of God to get the bigger picture.
When you start the day working on the internal, you will cultivate the resilience necessary to face the external.
When we pray for the children, even those we will never meet, we discover that every child is God’s beloved child.
In today’s Gospel passage Jesus implies that both government and religion have claims on us. We owe both.
Tending to our spiritual needs brings all the facets of our being into harmony.
We Catholics ask Mary to pray for us now and at the hour of our death. She is always there for us just as she was there for Elizabeth.
Would you rather err on the side of charity or suspicion? Offer today’s prayer in solidarity with those who struggle on the periphery.
If John the Baptist got his authority from God, so does Jesus. If the Baptist’s authority wasn’t from God, then neither is Jesus’. What kind of authority does Jesus have in my life?
I often feel critical of my own body, seldom because of penances, but because of excess or unreasonable expectations.
