Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 4:1–13
For most of my life, Lent meant praying the stations of the cross, giving something up, and throwing loose change in a box for the poor. All good things, yet nothing more than outward gestures that produced little interior transformation. [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 6:39–45
Sunday marks the last Sunday of Ordinary Time for a while, for on Wednesday, we enter into the glorious season of Lent. At Walking with Purpose, we're gearing up to spend Lent—and part of Easter—reflecting on the essential call to discipleship. [...]
Dig Deeper into this Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 6:27–38
With utter humility, I admit that I am profoundly weak willed. Let me explain.
On most days, I consider myself a good Christian. I desire intimacy with our Lord. I feel at home in the pages of Scripture. [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 6:17,20–26
I gave up coffee for Lent—not last Lent, but this upcoming Lent. I went from drinking two pots a day to nothing—zero cups. I’m already in week three of my coffee fast and have no plans to return. [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 5:1–11
The gospel message is radical, exciting, and life-changing—or at least, it is supposed to be.
Whether it's my own familiarity of hearing these stories for thirty-two years, my sweet little distractions in the pew beside me, or a less-than-riveting homily, [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 2:22–40
It's easy to be drawn to Simeon in this week’s Sunday gospel reading.
He rightly receives due attention. Simeon’s canticle of praise, as he witnesses the Christ Child presented at the temple, expressed his profound gratitude for having lived long enough to behold his Savior. [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 1:1–4,4:14–21
I’m staring at a stack of unwritten Christmas cards. I have yet to write or send a single one. The good news is that I’m one of those Catholics who doesn’t officially close out the Christmas season until Candlemas. [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 2:1–11
I love that on the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, we read about Jesus' first miracle, which, admittedly, was anything but ordinary. It’s an intimate miracle, one that’s discreet, ushered into existence by Mary; a miracle witnessed by only a few—the servers, [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 3:15–16,21–22
I am continually amazed by the life of Scripture, which offers a meaningful message one day and inspires a completely different insight the next. This Sunday's gospel is one such passage. It is a familiar story that we recently read during Advent. [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 2:1–12
Have you ever caught yourself about to genuflect before taking your seat at the movie theatre? I have. Fifty-plus years of genuflecting at Mass has ingrained this action into my brain so much that it happens mindlessly when I see a row of seats. [...]
