Daily Reflections

What if the people and needs we're most practiced at overlooking are precisely where God's gaze is fixed?

Rather than trusting that God's grace is sufficient, we presumptuously follow our own way.

This reminds us that Jesus’ mission flows from the heart of God: a mission of mercy and compassion.

Like Levi, when we answer a call, we never know where it will take us, what it might ask of us, or how it will change us.

Hearing of Jesus’ return, a group assembled to bring a paralytic to him in the hope that Jesus would heal the man. 

In today’s Gospel of Mark, Jesus dramatically begins his public ministry in Capernaum where he has established his residence.  It is there on the Sabbath in the synagogue that Jesus astonishes all those assembled by the unique authority of his teaching.

But for most of us, God’s "call" doesn't come with a special effects budget. It’s much more about the vibe and the inner tug on your heart.

From this small Galilean town, Jesus begins his ministry of teaching with “authority,” and the people took notice.

The long-awaited Christmas celebration is concluded.  The feast of the Epiphany has passed.  Jesus was baptized yesterday.  Now what?

On this day, we, too, are being reborn into the Ordinary time of our lives. This is such a fitting way in which to conclude the Advent and Christmas seasons.