Labored and aching, I stumble toward Light—Christ bends low and gathers my fractured sight. For even my burden, twisted and blurred, becomes a sign of the lost ones stirred.
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“Here’s Your Sign”-Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent-LECTIO DIVINA
A banner fell; a lamb ran wild—here’s your sign, my soul, be reconciled. For God shouts loud in the smallest thing: the lost one found, the Shepherd King.
“Motives”-Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary-LECTIO DIVINA
In Mary’s light I stand undone,
my motives twisted, hers all one;
yet even I may learn to say—with trembling lips—Let it be today. Immaculate Mother, teach me Your Yes.
“Bad Moon Rising”-Friday of the First Week of Advent LECTIO DIVINA
A blind man’s cry beneath a rising moon, a Centennial dressed too early in its feast— Lord, touch our eyes before the hour is soon, and make the truth shine brighter than the priest.
**🕯️ Thursday of the First Week of Advent LECTIO DIVINA (in the voice of G.K. Chesterton)
Each of us tugging a knot on the rope, calling it truth, calling it hope; but Christ holds the rope when the storm rolls in, and the house stands firm where obedience has been.
**🕯️ A Chestertonian Lectio Divina for the Memorial of St. Francis Xavier
Ice on the grass, ice on the soul—but grace is the sun that makes frozen things whole.
Tuesday of the First Week of Advent
The learned look away, but the childlike still see—for even frozen pumpkins hold the promise of spring.
Monday of the First Week of Advent
Faith blooms like my winter snapdragon — not because the season is kind, but because the Word is near.
First Sunday of Advent
Wake up, O Church—before the floodlight of Christ reveals what we refused to see. Let our lamps burn clean this Advent, and may the truth we feared at dawn become the light that guides us home.
Saturday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Spirit aching, dawn undone, yet still I rise and face the sun. Two days dark, no Mass in sight—still I choose the Advent light.