Lectio the Liturgy

This is an interesting feast day. While we take this Sunday to recognize Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, we also need to see him in the bread and wine on the altar at Mass.

There has ne…

Many are looking for happiness in all the wrong places. Happiness is not found at the end of a search, nor is it found at a store. Happiness comes when we give ourselves away.

We are equipped for th…

When we ask God to “look with favor,” He doesn’t just look. Just like a good Father, He comes to us.

This weekend, as we ask God to “Look,” His presence is near you whether you feel it or not. Our …

If you want to experience the power of God, make a sacrificial offering.

Your offering benefits you in miraculous ways and God gets to show you His power.

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Pop quiz: Define “majesty.” Now make it greater and apply it to God. God’s majesty brings together His glory and power, His strength and beauty, and His greatness and goodness.

This week’s prayer re…

The prayer this week is the Prayer after Communion for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

We entreat your majesty most humbly, O Lord, that, as you feed us with the nourishment which comes from the mo…

We hear these words at every mass: do this. Just what are we supposed to do?

“Do this” does not mean to sit and watch. Nor does it mean to just show up at church on the weekend. It means to do what …

In 1833, the US Supreme Court ruled that “the court cannot give the prisoner the benefit of the pardon, unless he claims the benefit of it, and relies on it by plea or motion” and that a pardon is an…

In the Prayer Over the Offering this week, we ask God that what we profess with devotion and faith may be ours through these heavenly mysteries

What do you profess? It is time to up our profession g…

In the prayer this week, the heavenly gift in the prayer is Jesus. The working is the “work” of the sacrificial action of Jesus on the Cross.

The prayer also gives rise to the question, “How much …

When is prayer true prayer?
While praying is always a good idea, prayer life can be deepened when we make it true prayer, a sincere devotion, our responding to God’s movement in our lives.

True pray…

The prayer this week reminds me that we get “the better end of the stick” when it comes to God. He gives us the blessing of salvation and signs and symbols in the visible world that show us what happ…

Do we long for unity and peace in the Church? Sometimes it seems like there is sand between not only members of the church, but between the members and the Church.

The gifts of unity and peace are o…

It’s a line we may tend to want to skip over when we pray the Lord’s Prayer (aka the Our Father). However, we hear it in a new way in the Prayer after Communion in the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

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Let’s have some fun and do some role-playing as we lectio this week. It’s take our turn at being the offering.

As the offering, God is pleased to accept us just like we are, sinful and both proud an…

Riddle: What can you offer at mass that is something you brought with you and doesn’t fit in your purse or wallet?

It’s you! When we make ourselves and oblation, or offering present to God, we hold…

Firm foundation isn’t just a secure place to stand. Firm, or validum in Latin, means efficacy.

Because of God, our words are prayers, our buildings are churches, and the Bible isn’t just another bo…

In this week’s prayer, we recognize that with the presence of Jesus comes grace. Have you ever realized that at the Last Supper, When Jesus held the bread and said, “This is my body,” that he was pre…

“Everything is well with the Catholic Church. But I do not say that everything is all with all the members of the Church.” ~Rev. C.M. Carty

Instead of focusing on the next scandal in our midst, we n…