What Kind of Soil?
DAILY GRACE July 24, 2020, Friday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time Scripture: Matthew 13:18-23 ‘Hear then the parable of the sower. When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the...
The Purpose of Parables
DAILY GRACE July 23, 2020, Thursday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time Scripture: Matthew 13:10-17 Then the disciples came and asked him, ‘Why do you speak to them in parables?’ He answered, ‘To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven,...
Many Things in Parables
DAILY GRACE July 22, 2020, Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time Scripture: Matthew 13:1-9 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the lake. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd...
Yes!
DAILY GRACE July 21, 2020, Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time Scripture: Matthew 12:46-50 While he was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers were standing outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, ‘Look, your mother and your...
The Sign of Jonah
DAILY GRACE July 20, 2020, Monday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time Scripture: Matthew 12:38-42 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, ‘Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.’ But he answered them, ‘An evil and adulterous generation asks for a...
Something Greater
DAILY GRACE July 17, 2020, Friday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time Scripture: Matthew 12:1-8 At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. When the Pharisees saw it,...
The Yoke
DAILY GRACE July 16, 2020, Thursday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time Scripture: Matthew 11:28-30 ‘Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in...
Childlike Trust
DAILY GRACE July 15, 2020, Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time Scripture: Matthew 11:25-27 At that time Jesus said, ‘I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed...
Business as Usual?
DAILY GRACE July 14, 2020, Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time Scripture: Matthew 11:20-24 Then he began to reproach the cities in which most of his deeds of power had been done, because they did not repent. ‘Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For...
Not Peace, but a Sword?
DAILY GRACE July 13, 2020, Monday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time Scripture: Matthew 10:34-11:1 ‘Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a...