LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Psalm 95:8 If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. MEDITATIO - Meditate on text, allow the LORD to touch us with His Word: Am I listening? Am I open to the LORD’s voice and desires for me? BREAKING OPEN THE TEXT: Today’s gospel acclamation is the powerful line from Psalm 95 that reminds us both of the LORD’s constant power and presence in our lives but also of our responsibility to be open to the LORD’s loving will and ready to

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20 I know both how to live humbly and to live in abundance. Everywhere and in all things, I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Notwithstanding, you have done well in understanding my affliction…But my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. And now, to God and our Father be glor

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 11:27-28 While Jesus was speaking, a certain woman in the crowd shouted out to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed.” But he said, “Rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.” MEDITATIO - Meditate on text, allow the LORD to touch us with His Word: Do I listen so as to truly “hear” the Word of God? Do I honor what I hear? BREAKING OPEN THE TEXT: Jesus’ response today to a woman’

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 11:15-26 When Jesus had driven out a demon, some in the crowd said: “He casts out devils through Beelzebub, the chief of the devils.” Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven. But knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation and a house will fall. And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? Because you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive o

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 11:5-13 And He said to them, “Which of you has a friend to whom he goes at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves because a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey and I have nothing to put before him.’ And he responds to you from within saying, ‘Trouble me not. The door has already been shut, and my children and I are already in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’ I tell you, even if he does not get up to g

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 11:1-4 And it came to pass that Jesus was praying in a certain place and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us, and do not subject us to the final test.” MEDITATIO - Medi

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 10:38-42 Now it came to pass, as they went, Jesus entered a certain village where a woman named Martha received him into her home. She had a sister named Mary who sat at Jesus’ feet listening to him speak. Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do the serving alone? Tell her to help me.” Jesus said to her in reply, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about ma

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 10:25-37 A scholar of the law stood up and tested Jesus saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” He said in reply, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” He replied to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you shall live.”

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Philippians 4:6-9 Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God. And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, whatever is true, whatever is honest, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is good, if there is any virtue and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about th

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 10:17-24 The seventy-two disciples returned rejoicing saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us because of your name.” He (Jesus) said, ‘I observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky. Behold, I give you the power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and upon the full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in hea

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Psalm 139: 1-3, 7-8, 9-10, 13-14b R. (24b) Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way. O LORD, you have searched me and you know me; You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar. My paths and my rest you scrutinize., With all my ways You are acquainted. R. (24b) Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way. Where can I go from your spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; If

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Psalm 27:7-8a, 8b-9abc, 13-14 R. (13) I believe that I shall see the good things of the LORD in the land of the living. Hear, O LORD, when I cry out; Have mercy on me and answer me. When you said, “Seek my face,” My heart said to thee, “Thy face, LORD I will seek.. R. (13) I believe that I shall see the good things of the LORD in the land of the living. Hide not your face from me; Do not in anger decline your servant. You are my helper; do not

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 9:57-62 And it came to pass as they journeyed, a certain man said to Jesus, “Lord, I will follow you wheresoever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” And He said to another, “Follow me.” But he answered, “Lord, allow me to go first and bury my father.” Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.” An

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: John 1:47-51 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and he said, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.” Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, you were standing under the fig tree. I saw you.” Nathanael answered and said to him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are the King of Israel.” Jesus responded and said to him, “Because I told you I saw you under the fig t

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 9:46-50 Then there arose a dispute among the disciples as to which of them should be greatest. And Jesus, recognizing their questioning, took a child and set him before them. And he said to them, “Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receives me, and whosoever receives me, receives Him who sent me. The least among you all shall be the greatest.” And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in your name, and

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Matthew 21:28-32 Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people: “What do you think? A man had two sons. He came to the first and said, ‘Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.’ He replied, “I will not.” But afterwards changed his mind and went out. The man came to the other son and gave him the same order. He replied, ‘Yes, sir,’ but he did not go. Which of the two sons did his father’s bidding?” They answered, “The first” Jesus

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 9:43b-45 They were all amazed at His every deed. Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Heed what I am telling you, the Son of Man is to be handed over to men.” But they did not understand his words; its importance was hidden from them so that they did not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about his words. MEDITATIO - Meditate on text, allow the LORD to touch us with His Word: Do I ignore the parts of the Gospel that make me unc

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted. A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to break down, and a time to build up. A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance. A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together. A time to embrace, and a time to re

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What profit has man for all his labor as he toils under the sun? One generation passes and another comes, but the world stays forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, then it presses on to the place where it rises. Blowing now to the south, then to the north, the wind turns again and again, continuing its rounds. All rivers flow to the sea, yet the sea ne

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 9:1-6 Jesus called the Twelve and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure illnesses. And He sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the ill. He said to them, “Take nothing for the journey, neither walking stick, nor sack, nor food, nor money, and let no one take a second tunic. Whichever house you enter into, stay there and leave from there. And as for those who are unwelcoming to you, when you leave that tow