St. Michael’s Lenten Reflection

Thank you for joining us today.  I pray you had a great weekend! TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE: SIRACH 4:28 STRIVE EVEN TO DEATH FOR THE TRUTH AND THE LORD GOD WILL FIGHT FOR YOU. One of my favorite apologists, possibly my favorite living apologist, of the Catholic faith is a man by the name of Trent…

Day 31 of Lent

Thank you for joining us today. TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE JOHN 7:28 So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord; he who sent me is true, and him you do not know ne of the first…

Day 30 of Lent

Thank you for joining us today and Happy Solemnity of St. Joseph!! St. Joseph – Pray for us! TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE: EPHESIANS 5:25 HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES, AS CHRIST LOVED THE CHURCH AND GAVE HIMSELF UP FOR HER. This is an extremely overlooked Bible passage in my opinion. The Bible instructs us to love your…

Day 29 of Lent

Thank you for joining us today! Today’s bible verse is a good piggy-back to Day 27’s reflection. (Click here to read Day 27) TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE: REVELATION 2:17 TO HIM WHO CONQUERS I WILL GIVE SOME OF THE HIDDEN MANNA This is a reflection from St. Thomas More on this verse: And yet, whereas such…

Day 28 of Lent

Happy feast day of St. Patrick! Thank you for joining us today! TODAY’ BIBLE VERSE: LUKE 2:13-14 AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PRAISING GOD AND SAYING, “GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE AMONG MEN WITH WHOM HE IS PLEASED!” For over a year…

A Journey through RCIA

2nd Scrutiny of the Elect – 4th Sunday in Lent This past Sunday was the rite known as the 2nd Scrutiny of the Elect (those who are unbaptized, seeking baptism and entry into the church). As I am baptized, I was not up in front of the congregation; however, we are all still participants in…

Day 27 of Lent

Thank you so much for joining us today. I pray you had a great weekend. TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE: JOHN 6:50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. As a first century Jew, everyone who heard this would have understood the reference from Jesus. This was…

Day 24 of Lent

  Thank you for joining us today! TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE: MATTHEW 4:17 FROM THAT TIME JESUS BEGAN TO PREACH, SAYING, “REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.” Jesus began not to preach until St. John had announced his coming to the world, that the dignity of his sacred person might be manifested, and…

Day 23 of Lent

Thank you for joining us today. TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE: EPHESIANS 2: 4-5 But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ Paul’s letter reminds us that God saved us even when we were…

Day 22 of Lent

Thank you for joining us today. I hope you have enjoyed this beautiful day so far. TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE 1 CORINTHIANS 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy. (It would…