Daily Reflections October 2019 Cycle C, Year II
October 1.St. Thérése of the Child Jesus Lk 9: 51-56 As a messenger of God, how do I embrace challenge/rejection?
October 2. Holy Guardian Angels Mt. 18:1-5, 10 What influence do I allow children to have on me?
October 3.“The Kingdom of God is at hand.” How do I follow Jesus in these challenging times?
October 4. St. Francis of Assisi Psalm 95:7-8 How do I listen, as did St. Francis, to God’s voice?
October 5. Psalm 69:33-35,35-37 How do I engage the vulnerable with whom I encounter?
October 6. 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2Tm 1:6-8, 13-14 How do I use God’s gift of “power, love and self-control?
October 7. Our Lady of the Rosary Lk 10:25-37 How do I respond to the gospel question: ‘And who is my neighbor?’
October 8. Lk 11:28 What word am I being asked to ‘hear and observe?’
October 9. Lk 11:1-4 How are my prayer practices deepening my relationship with Jesus?
October 10. Lk 11:15-26 “Ask, seek, knock.” How do I engage these three prayer movements?
October 11. Joel 1:13-15,2:1-2 What am I doing for the environment?
October 12. Ps 97:1-2,5-6,11-12 “Rejoice in the Lord, you just!” For what do I rejoice?
October 13. 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Lk 17:11-19 What brings me gratitude today?
October 14. Lk 11:29-32 How is my life being a sign to others?
October 15. St. Teresa of Jesus Lk 11:37-41 How is God using my hands to bless others?
October 16. Ps 62:2-3,6-7,9 “Trust in God at all times, O my people!” What does trust look like in my life?
October 17. St. Ignatius of Antioch Jn 14:6 How does the Lord’s “way, truth and life” guide me?
October 18. St. Luke, Evangelist 2Tm 4:10-17 How has “the Lord stood by me and given me strength” in the face of adversity?
October 19. Lk 12:8-12 How do I experience the Spirit working in my life?
October 20. 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Ps 1211-2,3-4,5-6,7-8 “The Lord is your guardian; the Lord is your shade.” How do I experience this?
October 21. Lk 12:13-21 How am I “storing up treasures” that matter to Jesus?
October 22.Lk 12:35-38 Am I awake and watching for the Lord to come or am I asleep?
October 23. Luke 8:16-18. Rom 6:12-18 How am I, like St. Paul writes, being “obedient from the heart?”
October 24. Lk 12:49-53 How have I experienced being purified by fire?
October 25. Anniversary of Dedication of all Churches PS 84:2,3,4-9,10 How am I a dwelling place for God?
October 26. Lk 13:1-9 In what way is my life bearing fruit? Do I need to change some things?
October 27. 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2Tm 4:6-8,16-18 How has “the Lord stood by me and given me strength?”
October 28. Sts Simon and Jude Eph 2:12-22 How am I “being built into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit?”
October 29. Lk 13:18-21 How am I being leaven for others to grow in their faith?
October 30. Lk 13:22-30 What things do I need to let go of to enter the “narrow gate” offered by Jesus?
October 31 Rom 8:31b-30 How have I experienced God being on my side, being for me?