July 23, 2026
God Will Come to Me
I call to you from my quiet darkness. Show me your mercy and love.
July 22, 2026
A Greater Love than We Can Contain
Love, as Jesus reveals it to us, is a relationship between persons.
July 21, 2026
Taking, Blessing, Breaking, Giving
To identify the movements of the Spirit in our lives, I have found it helpful to use four words: “taken,” “blessed,” “broken,” and “given.” These words summarize my life as a priest because each day, when I come together around the table with members of my community, I take bread, bless it, break it, and give it.
July 20, 2026
To Be Silent Keeps Us Pilgrims
Words often leave us with a sense of inner defeat. They can even create a sense of numbness and a feeling of being bogged down in swampy ground.
July 19, 2026
In the House of the Lord
Be with Jesus. Be quiet. Listen to the one who invites you to his home.
July 18, 2026
Letting Go
Detachment is often understood as letting loose of what is attractive. But it sometimes also requires letting go of what is repulsive.
July 17, 2026
Dwelling With God
There was that voice, that incredible voice: “You are my beloved son and on you my favor rests.” That’s the voice at the Jordan River, where Jesus heard and believed that he was the beloved of God on whom God’s favor rests.
July 16, 2026
Truth About All Human Beings
You, O Lord, have also known fear. You have been deeply troubled; your sweat and tears were signs of your fear.
July 15, 2026
Our Unique Vocation
Each individual Christian and each community of Christians has a unique call. Everybody can’t do everything. You get out and do what the gospel is saying…
July 14, 2026
Building a New Community
We can love others because the “I” in our innermost self has heard the first love – which is God’s unconditional, unlimited love.
July 13, 2026
Intimate Care
Listening to that voice with great inner attentiveness, I hear at my center words that say: “I have called you by name, from the very beginning.
July 12, 2026
A Fruitful Death
What I appreciate as I read Scripture is that Jesus saw death, and his own death in particular, as more than a way of getting from one place to another.
July 11, 2026
Dwelling With God
John’s Gospel develops this image, and so we find Jesus saying, “Make your home in me, as I have made my home in you” (see John 15:4).
July 10, 2026
Entering Into God’s Intimacy
Prayer, therefore, is far from sweet and easy. Being the expression of our greatest love, it does not keep pain away from us.
July 9, 2026
A Love that Holds Us Safe
We belong to God from eternity to eternity. Indeed, we are God’s daughters and sons.
July 8, 2026
God is Right Here
Worship is coming together as a community of God to claim the presence of Christ. So we listen to the readings, we break the bread, we share the cup, we sing songs.
July 7, 2026
Simple Quiet Rest
Why, O Lord, is it so hard for me to keep my heart directed toward you?
July 6, 2026
Power to Love Enemies
Following Jesus means to live a life in which we start loving one another with God’s original love and not with the needy wounded love that harms others.
July 5, 2026
The Voice that Speaks
Yes, there is that voice, the voice that speaks from above and from within and that whispers softly or declares loudly: “You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.”
July 4, 2026
The Fullness of Jesus’ Love
“The Son of Man,” Jesus says, “must be lifted up as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him” (John 3:14-15, JB). He is lifted up as a passive victim, making the cross a sign of desolation.