Daily Readings

Sacred Space - Your daily prayer, online.  There is also an app for your smart phone!  Check it out.  Using this app or webpage provides a 'Sacred Space' in your day, praying here and now, with the help of scripture chosen every day and on-screen guidance.  Online personal retreats, learning.  It's a great place!

New American Bible Daily and Sunday Readings  The New American Bible is the translation of the biblical texts we hear at the liturgy. If you would like to read any part of the bible online.  This link also lets you read the daily Mass readings, or preview the weekend Gospel. You can also hear the Gospel proclaimed, along with a short commentary at this link: Daily Gospel Link
 

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'When I Hear Bread Breaking' - Thanksgiving for Eucharist, Reflection

The Jesuit activist Daniel Berrigan wrote:  "When I hear bread breaking, I see something else;  it seems to me as though God never meant us to do anything else. So beautiful a sound; the crust breaks up like manna and falls all over everything and then we eat; bread gets inside humans.  It turns into what the experts call "formal glory of God,"   but don't let that worry you.  Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved person, the look on their face when the bread finally arrives. Hope you might have baked it or bought it--or even kneaded it yourself.  For that look on their face,  for your hands meeting theirs across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot or suffer a lot--or die a little, even.  "Formal glory?," well yes.  Maybe what we're trying to understand is what they're trying to say, who knows? I don't think they understand--or every theologian would be working part time in a bread line. Who knows who might greet Christ there or how his words might change afterward--like stones into bread?"