Daily Catholic reflections that are under 3 minutes long so you get your daily dose of wisdom quickly! Fr. Sam reflects on the catholic mass readings from the day (Old Testament, New Testament, or Gospel) as well as the saint of the day for his daily reflections.
Today’s Gospel Reading Is Mark 6:1-6. Jesus returns home to Nazareth where He is met by great unbelief. The Gospels say that Jesus isn’t able to perform great miracles because the people are lacking …
Today is the feast of St. Maria Goretti, the Gospel reading is Matthew 9:14-17. Maria Goretti did not grow up "well off", but she had a great faith, living in the difficult situations in our life. In…
Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 9:9-13. This is the story of Matthew’s call to be a disciple. He’s called to follow Jesus and he invites many people to come along with him, sinners who need mercy. …
Today’s Gospel reading is Matthew 9:1-8. Jesus forgives and heals a paralyzed man. The Pharisees want to know who but God can forgive sins? Jesus is thus using the healing as proof of His divinity. T…
Today is the feast of St. Thomas the apostle, the Gospel reading is John 20:24-29. It is the moment that Thomas demands to place his hand in the Lord’s side. What must be remembered before this event…
Today’s Gospel reading is Matthew 8:23-27. Jesus is asleep in the boat and wakes up to find the disciples afraid and in chaos. The truth is that Jesus is present with us in the boat. He walks with us…
Today’s Gospel is Matthew 8:18-22. Many people approach the Lord offering to follow Him, but almost all with a small caveat attached. Jesus reminds us that if we follow Him, there will be challenges.…
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Today’s Gospel Reading is Mark 5:21-43. Today’s Gospel features two beautiful miracles of healing. Jairus’s daughter is healed and the woman who has been hemorrhaging for twe…
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Today is the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, and today’s Gospel Reading is Mt 16:13-19. Today we have Peter’s great confession of faith and his being renamed Peter, that …
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Today's Gospel Reading is Matthew 8:1-4. A Leper comes to Jesus and says, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean”. Jesus does will it and he continues to will healing for …
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Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 27:21-29. Not everyone who says to Me “Lord, Lord” will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but everyone who listens to His word and acts on them w…
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Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 7:15-20. Just as a good tree can’t bear rotten fruit, we must beware false prophets, and we will know them by their fruit. Those false proph…
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Today’s Gospel is Matthew 7:6,12-14. Jesus tells us that sometimes we need to know when to walk away. When to walk away from those who refuse to receive the Good News, ultima…
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Today’s Gospel Reading is from Luke 1: 57-66,80. It’s the Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist. John the Baptist is the one to point to Christ as the Lamb of God. He…
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Today’s Gospel Reading is Mark 4:35-41. During the middle of a storm, Jesus falls asleep in the boat with his disciples. His disciples are afraid, wake Him, and He calms not …
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Today’s Gospel is Matthew 6:24-34, it is the feast of St. John Fisher. St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More stood together and opposed King Henry VIII when he desired to foun…
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Today’s Gospel is Matthew 6:19-23. Today is the feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga. Jesus instructs us to store up treasure in Heaven instead of treasure on earth. St. Aloysius is…
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Today’s Gospel Reading is Mt 6:7-15. Jesus gives us the Our Father, instructing us to not babble on while praying. When we pray with these words, words that Jesus Himself gav…
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Today’s Gospel reading is Matthew 6:1-6 &16-18. It is the feast of St. Romuald of Ravenna. St. Romuald was a monk who lived his early life as “dissolute youth”, as a slave to…
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Today’s reading is Matthew 5:43-48. Jesus says to “be perfect just as your Heavenly Father is perfect”. It isn’t enough to simply live as all others live. We are called to li…