Readings: Romans 12:1-2 (MSG) & Matthew 6:25-33

Number one doorway for someone to be open to the Gospel today is to see the goodness, grace, generosity, love, etc. in a Christians' life.

Readings: 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 & Matthew 25:14-30

Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: religious, nonreligious, meticulous moralists, loose-living immoralists, the defeated, the demoralized—whoever. I didn’t take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ—but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I’ve become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. I did all this because of the Message. I didn’t just want to talk about it; I wanted to be in on it! 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 -The Message

Psalm 74:1-3, 18-23; 1 Cor.9:19-23; Matthew 10:24-33

Technological development hasn't been matched by development in human values and in human conscience. - Pope Francis

But the glory of God is precisely that for our sakes He comes down to the very depths, into human flesh, into the bread, into our mouth, our heart, our bosom. - Martin Luther

When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.


- St. Jean Vianney

Peace is not merely the absence of conflict. Peace is a rest of the will.

Sheep naturally live with a sense of lack. What am I going to eat. What am I going to drink. Sheep are very weary and nervous.

Psalm 85:7-13, Ephesians 2:11-22, John 20:19-29

Psalm 33:1-5, 18-22, Rom. 5:1-11, John 6:35-40

Little by little, your hope is shaped so that when the big things come, you can stand.

John 18:33-37

Todd Pickett concludes the Season of Ordinary Time and our book studies in the Minor Prophets with Malachi. Read the entire book as you reflect and listen to what God is saying to his people. Malachi is the final book of the Old Testament and the last prophetic voice heard until we hear John the Baptist in the same tenor, hundreds of years later proclaim “Prepare the way of the Lord!”