Category: Living Faith Devotions

‘Triumph, in the End’ St. Katharine Drexel So shall my word be…achieving the end for which I sent it. – Isaiah 55:11 While rolling up

Seeing With the Eyes of the Holy Friday after Ash Wednesday Sharing your bread with the hungry,sheltering the oppressed and the homeless. – Isaiah 58:7

‘Strength, Prayer, Bravery’ Thursday after Ash Wednesday For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake

Six Weeks of Housecleaning’ Ash Wednesday A clean heart create for me, O God,and a steadfast spirit renew within me. – Psalm 51:12 A clean

‘Moral Compass in Hand’ Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you. – James 4:10 We stand here on the threshold of Lent,

‘Our Wake-up Calls’ O faithless generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring him to me. – Mark

‘A Call for Prayer’ Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.”

Staying in Line’ The Chair of St. Peter Do not lord it over those assigned to you, but be examples to the flock. – 1

‘Breathing Life into the World’ St. Peter Damian For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

Including the Excluded’ But if you show partiality, you commit sin… – James 2:9 Adolescents are infamous excluders. They create boys- or girls-only clubs or

Tongue-tied?’ Know this, my dear brothers and sisters: everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger… – James 1:19 Most likely,

Remembering the Disregarded’ Do you not remember…how many wicker baskets full of fragments you picked up? – Mark 8:18-19 Anyone who has tried to teach

‘Refined in the Fire’ The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order It is good for me that I have been afflicted,that I may learn

Only the Clean of Heart’ Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time …unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the

Keeping Our Compassion Alive’ My heart is moved with pity for the crowd… – Mark 8:2 Wherever he went, Jesus saw pain, suffering and injustice.

Miracles and Ministry’ He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it. Mark 7:36