9 February 2016
9 February 2016 Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Today’s readings begin with a prayer of Solomon, who successfully built the temple. ...
8 February 2016
8 February 2016 Monday of the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time On February 8, 1947, Josephine Bakhita breathed her last at the Canossian convent in ...
7 February 2016
7 February 2016 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Alice von Hildebrand in her Memoirs of a Happy Failure went into detail about her 37 years of ...
6 February 2016
6 February 2016 Memorial of St. Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs Sometimes, it seems like Jesus asks us to do what is difficult or ...
5 February 2016
5 February 2016 Memorial of St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr Herod and his court are nearer to the truth than they realize when they try to guess ...
4 February 2016
4 February 2016 Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time God can work just fine without us. God did many good things before any of us ever ...
3 February 2016
3 February 2016 Memorial of St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr Few things make me feel low like knowing that I have let someone down. The look of ...
2 February 2016
2 February 2016 Feast of the Presentation of the Lord Today’s feast concludes the cycle of Nativity-based feasts. Forty days after Christmas, ...
1 February 2016
1 February 2016 Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Jesus doesn’t even obey his own rules in today’s gospel. Often in the first part of ...
31 January 2016
31 January 2016 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time The first reading has always been significant to me. I am a Jesuit in large part to my ...