On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
Published September 5, 2026 In today's Gospel, Luke gives us a small, almost domestic scene that turns out to carry enormous theological weight. Jesus and his disciples are walking through a field of grain on the Sabbath. The disciples, presumably hungry from the journey, pluck a few heads of gr...
Read reflectionPublication Date: September 4, 2026 In today's Gospel, the scribes and Pharisees come to Jesus with a pointed observation. John's disciples fast and pray with visible discipline. The Pharisees' disciples do the same....
Read more →Published: September 3, 2026 There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from a night of labor that produced nothing. Simon Peter and his companions knew it well on the morning we meet them in today's Gospel....
Read more →Published: September 2, 2026 Today's Gospel opens in a quiet, ordinary place: someone's home. Jesus has just left the synagogue, where he taught with authority and confronted an unclean spirit in front of the whole a...
Read more →Published September 1, 2026 Today's Gospel places us in the synagogue at Capernaum on a sabbath morning, where an ordinary teaching moment turns into a startling confrontation. Jesus has just begun his public ministr...
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