Daily Reflections

Scripture: Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19Matthew 11:28-30 Reflection: Jesus said: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble…

Scripture: Isaiah 10:5-7, 13b-16Matthew 11:25-27 Reflection: Today’s tidbit of a gospel contains a very important message, one we cannot afford to overlook or dismiss. Jesus breaks forth in exuberant praise of God because God chose to reveal the ways of…

Scripture: Isaiah 7:1-9Matthew 11:20-24 Reflection: The prophets Ezekiel, Isaiah and Jeremiah renounce the evil deeds of Tyre and Sidon. We need not to go into the debaucheries of Sodom and Gomorrah. Still, Jesus says the final judgment will go better…

Scripture: Isaiah 1:10-17 Matthew 10:34-11:1 Reflection: Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth.  I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.  For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and daughter…

Scripture: Amos 7:12-15Ephesians 1:3-14Mark 6:7-13 Reflection: Today’s responsorial psalm proclaims four God-like elements that lead to glory and salvation: kindness, truth, justice, and peace. Let us reflect on the ultimate outcomes in our lives if we somehow agreed that those…

Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-8Matthew 10:24-33 Reflection: The theme of today’s readings centers on mission; on being sent by God for a specific purpose to open hearts to God’s message. The prophet Isaiah writes of his vision of the throne of God…

Scripture: Hosea 14:2-10Matthew 10:16-23 Reflection: Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. Today’s gospel passage reminds us of Aesop’s tale of The Wolves And The Sheep.1 …

Scripture: Hosea 11:1-4, 8e-9Matthew 10:7-15 Reflection: The Gospel of Matthew may be the most Jewish of the gospels. Matthew wrote for a Jewish-Christian audience living in or near the homeland. He structured his gospel into five discourses: The Sermon on…

Scripture: Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8Matthew 10:1-7 Reflection: During COVID, I doubted whether my business would survive. I had to scrape and scramble to keep enough income coming through the door to pay the bills. Last year, I didn’t have to scramble…

Scripture: Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13Matthew 9:32-38 Reflection: Mary, Mother of Holy Hope Samuel Hazo, who works professionally in advertising, ends an insightful article contrasting advertising’s goal with poetry. ‘Advertising is a means to a desired end, but poetry is an end…