I’ll Be Home for Christmas: Such a Beautiful Time to Come Home to Jesus

Merry Christmas, everybody! Even though Christmas Eve and Day have passed, the Christmas season continues until the Epiphany, January 6th. I like to pray for conversions especially around this time of year because the Epiphany marks the anniversary of my own conversion, which happened in 2017. So I like to pray for other people to […]

Can God Forgive A Murderer?

I recently revisited a murder trial that I watched on Court TV back in the summer of 2010: State of Florida vs Rachel Wade. In that case, Rachel Wade was found guilty of Second Degree Murder for fatally stabbing the victim, Sarah Ludemann, during a fight over a guy that both girls were seeing, named […]

A Reflection on Today’s Gospel: “Be Merciful, Just As Your Father is Merciful…Forgive, and You Will Be Forgiven”

Last Monday’s gospel told us that loving our neighbors is essential to our salvation. The sheep went to Heaven because of how they loved their neighbors, and the goats went to hell because of how they failed to love their neighbors. Today’s gospel tells us that forgiveness is also essential to our salvation. Forgiveness is […]

A Reflection on Today’s Gospel: “Go, Sell What You Have, and Give to the Poor and You Will Have Treasure in Heaven; Then Come Follow Me”

Today’s gospel made me think of a memory from my college days, when I was still an inactive Catholic. I lived on a campus in downtown Grand Rapids, MI and there was a bus service that went between the downtown campus and the main campus. The bus also stopped at the local Meijer. I didn’t […]

Reflection on Today’s Gospel: “I Do Believe, Help My Unbelief!”

I’m sure that most of us, at one point or another, have been able to relate to the boy’s father in today’s gospel when he said: “I do believe, help my unbelief!” This father first took his son, who was possessed by a demon, to the disciples and asked them to drive the demon out. […]

Reflection on Today’s Gospel: Pharisees Ask Jesus for a Sign

So last Thursday we heard about the Greek woman that asked Jesus to drive a demon out of her daughter. At first, the disciples were telling Jesus to send the woman away, and Jesus told the woman that he could not grant her request right away. The children needed to be fed first, and it […]

A Reflection on Today’s Gospel: “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps”

We can learn some great lessons from the Greek woman in today’s gospel. Often times when we pray, in our human nature, we want to see instant results to our prayers. We want what we are asking for right away. But it doesn’t always work that way. Sometimes Jesus makes us wait. And it can […]

A Reflection on Today’s Gospel: Jesus Sends Out the 12 Apostles-We Too Share in This Mission!

So I wrote a reflection on today’s gospel to share with the residents at the assisted living facility where I work, and I thought I would share my reflection here as well: So in today’s gospel, Jesus sends the 12 apostles out on their first mission. He sends them out in pairs to proclaim the […]

Jesus Will Always Have Room For You! Will You Make Room for Him?

This post is for anybody who thinks that they are beyond the reach of God’s mercy. Anybody who thinks that God has no room for them in his heart, in his mercy, in his church, etc The simple truth is, that He does! This song randomly popped up in my YouTube video feed early this […]

Happy New Year! Be With Us Mary, Along the Way! In the New Year and Always!

Hello everybody, I wanted to take this time to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Although tomorrow is best known as New Year’s Day, it is much more than just that. It is also the Feast of Mary the Mother of God. It is a very special feast day […]