Category Archives: Advent 2020

Dec 20 2023

A Garden of Love / Un Jardín de Amor

Click here for daily readings When the Blessed Mother says her historic, momentous, earth-shattering “yes” to God in today’s gospel reading, she probably had little idea that she would become the spiritu...

Dec 24 2020

He Keeps His Promises

Click here for daily readings I love this Gospel reading today. I really love praying the Liturgy of the Hours, also called the Divine Office. There’s a reason why thousands of lips utter these same words as Zechari...

Dec 23 2020

A Catholic’s Guide to the End of the World

Click here for daily readings “But who will endure the day of His coming?” Are you prepared for The End? It’s during a year like 2020 when talk of the end of the world ramps up. People are stocking canne...

Dec 22 2020

Mary’s Magnificat

Click here for daily readings Mary’s Magnificat is one of the most well-known Scriptures. It is used in the Liturgy of the Hours for Morning Prayer every day. It appears as the Gospel reading more than once every s...

Dec 21 2020

Blessed are You

Click here for daily readings The Gospel scene today is very familiar. As Mary greets her cousin Elizabeth, the baby she carries jumps in her womb. Elizabeth shares that joyful experience with Mary, crying out blessings ...

Dec 20 2020

Handmaid of the Lord

Click here for daily readings I was recently part of a six-week journal group among mothers of my local parish. During our final session, I can recall two occurrences in particular that stood out to me. The first was tha...

Dec 19 2020

Faith and Reason

Click here for daily readings Today is Nathalie’s birthday so I would be remiss if I didn’t wish her a Happy Birthday up front. And it is fitting because today’s Gospel passage is all about birth. It&rs...

Dec 18 2020

Did You Dream?

Click here for daily readings “The Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.” Have you heard that Pope Francis declared this new Liturgical Year to be The Year of Saint Joseph? It’s true. A few month...

Dec 17 2020

Fiber and Flesh, and the O Antiphons

Click here for daily readings Each year the Church presents this genealogy of Jesus, which we can easily skim over when reading because the names do not hold much meaning for us. But this genealogy is significant because...

Dec 16 2020

We Are Children of the Light

Click here for daily readings I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume I’m not the only person pleased to be approaching the end of 2020. It’s been a year filled with pain, with uncertainty, with d...

Dec 15 2020

Worshipping Amid Oppression

Click here for daily readings Today’s First Reading about the oppressing city struck a chord in my heart. I sometimes feel like we are in a time of oppressing cities. During the lockdown essential businesses were al...

Dec 14 2020

The Crèche and the Cross

Click here for daily readings Just when we were getting settled into our new house and things were starting to settle down, another crisis. After so much work, so many hours, so much invested, and it all came crashing do...

Dec 13 2020

The Coming of the Bridegroom

Click here for daily readings Gaudate Sunday marks the halfway point of the Advent season. With the church and priest decked out in the color rose, the Church makes the shift from the second coming of Christ at the end of...

Dec 12 2020

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Click here for daily readings “Mary, make me love your Son Jesus as the Principle behind all things, not with a fear that paralyzes and discourages, but with a love that knows no limits. ~ Blessed Concepci&oa...

Dec 11 2020

Light of Life

Click here for daily readings It is dark as I leave home for 7:15am Mass. The sun will be setting as I leave work to go back home this evening. Without the aid of my headlights it is hard for me to really see what ...

Dec 10 2020

Listen and Heed His Help

Click here for daily readings “Whoever has ears ought to hear.” What aren’t we hearing, then? So often we miss the memo, miss the message – whether from the Lord or from others in our own life. Why...

Dec 09 2020

Come To Me

Click here for daily readings “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” Today’s First Reading is very short—so short it could be easy to dismiss or overlook. This ...

Dec 08 2020

Eve Said No – Mary Said Yes

Click here for daily readings Eve and Mary were similar in a lot of ways. They were both created without sin. They were both daughters of covenants, under which they pledged obedience. They were both visited by a supernat...

Dec 07 2020

The Way of the Redeemed

Click here for daily readings Both readings today could provoke us to ask ourselves the following questions: In what ways am I blind? In what situations am I deaf? How am I lame? In what way is my tongue mute? Isaiah pro...

Dec 06 2020

The Three Comings

Click here for daily readings On this Second Sunday of Advent, the Gospel presents to us the impassioned presence of St. John the Baptist – in the desert alone, dressed in camel’s hair, eating insects and wil...