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Oh God, our Heavenly Father, thank you for all your many blessings. In today’s Gospel reading from Matthew 9:18-26, we hear about an official who was so deeply concerned for his daughter’s life that he implored Jesus to lay his hand on her. His faith and trust in Christ’s power were rewarded with the remarkable

Oh God, our Heavenly Father, Thank you for all your many blessings. In today’s Gospel a father came to your Son and said that his daughter had just died, but if you would only come and lay your hand on her, she would live, and your Son rose at once and followed him. Along the

Oh God, our Heavenly Father, Thank you for all your many blessings. In today’s Gospel your Son cries out, “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest,” and he asks me to take his yoke, which is easy, and his burden, which is light. Give me rest

Oh God, our Heavenly Father, Thank you for all your many blessings. In today’s Gospel the disciples of John asked your Son why they fasted while his disciples did not, and he answered that the wedding guests cannot mourn while the bridegroom is still with them. He told them that no one pours new wine

Oh God, our Heavenly Father, Thank you for all your many blessings. On this Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle, today’s Gospel tells how Thomas would not believe until he could see the mark of the nails and place his hand into your Son’s side. A week later Jesus came through the locked doors, stood

Oh God, our Heavenly Father, Thank you for all your many blessings. In today’s Gospel they brought to your Son a paralytic lying on a stretcher, and when he saw their faith he said, “Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.” Then to show his authority he said, “Rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home,”