Skip to content
  • Home
  • About Me
Discerning Dominican
Thoughts on our Catholic faith

Menu

  • Home
  • About Me

Posts by topic

Acts (8) charity (4) choice (3) Church (3) covenant (6) Daniel (2) Easter (11) Elijah (2) Exodus (4) Ezekiel (5) faith (11) fasting (3) forgiveness (4) freedom (2) Holy Spirit (2) humility (5) Isaiah (26) Jeremiah (6) judgment (7) justice (5) kingdom (4) Lent (74) light (2) love (12) Mary (3) mercy (4) morality (2) Moses (5) prayer (5) preaching (2) purity (2) salvation (29) sin (15) St. John (44) St. Luke (31) St. Mark (11) St. Matthew (46) St. Paul (14) St. Peter (2) suffering (2) temptation (2) truth (8) water (2) Word (4) wrath (2)

Posts by Category

Powered by Verbosa & WordPress.

Tag: choice

Courage and Cowardice

Courage and Cowardice

April 8, 2020 NT reflection / OT reflection / Year AOne Comment

Wednesday of Holy Week: Isaiah 50:4-9a, Matthew 26:14-25. Today’s gospel focuses on Judas’s betrayal, much like yesterday’s reading. Coupled with the first reading from Isaiah, we get a clear look at what it means to live in the light compared to living in darkness.  Today’s first reading is from a …

Continue reading"Courage and Cowardice"
Evil Plots in Empty Hearts

Evil Plots in Empty Hearts

March 28, 2020 NT reflection / Year AOne Comment

Saturday in the Fourth Week of Lent: Jeremiah 11:18-20, John 7:40-53. Today’s readings display the evil plots of those who willingly disbelieve. In the Old Testament and New, we see those with hardened hearts speak ill of and plan the destruction of the righteous. We must beware of this tendency …

Continue reading"Evil Plots in Empty Hearts"
Who Said Catholics Aren’t Pro-Choice?

Who Said Catholics Aren’t Pro-Choice?

February 27, 2020 NT reflection / OT reflection / Year ALeave a comment

Thursday after Ash Wednesday: Deuteronomy 30:15-20, Luke 9:22-25 It’s not the choice you’re probably thinking about; it’s more fundamental than that. It’s the freedom to choose to live in the light or to live in the darkness, and God guarantees us this freedom. This freedom is carried out in myriad …

Continue reading"Who Said Catholics Aren’t Pro-Choice?"

Subscribe for New Posts via Email

Check your inbox or spam folder to make sure you've received my mail confirmation of your subscription.

Back to Top