Category Archives: Catholic

Jun 25 2026

Building a Relationship with Jesus / Construir una relación personal con Jesús

Click here for daily readings Do you know Jesus? More importantly, as our Gospel alludes to today, does Jesus know you? Today’s verses from Matthew, found at the end of the Sermon on the Mount, give us three things to think about. First off, not everybody who cries, “Lord, Lord!” will be saved. Cryi...

Jun 24 2026

John’s Calling to Call Others / El llamado de Juan a llamar a otros

Click here for daily readings In a former life, many moons ago, I was consecrated to our Lord as a lay person, making promises of poverty, chastity and obedience. This happened on the feast of John the Baptist’s death that we celebrate in August. Today we celebrate his birth, the coming into the wor...

Jun 23 2026

Where to Throw Our Pearls / Dónde arrojar nuestras perlas

Click here for daily readings “Don’t bother with those dogs and swine because you are so much better than they are.” Is that what Jesus is telling the multitude on that hillside? Can’t be. That just doesn’t sound like Jesus. Already by this point in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus has offered the cro...

Jun 22 2026

Learning not to Judge / Aprender a no juzgar

Click here for daily readings This Gospel passage gets me every single time. I unfortunately have a judgmental nature and I dislike it. This is one more example of how good our Lord is. He knows us. He knows and speaks to our weaknesses. He doesn’t pretend they don’t exist nor does He let us […]

Jun 21 2026

The Great Gift / El Gran Regalo

Click here for daily readings “It’s not fair!” said my son, holding up his sixth-grade homework. “What’s not fair?” I answered, knowing his homework-stalling tactics. “Adam and Eve really messed us up!” he shot back. “Please, just do your homework,” I said, adamantly. That day at schoo...

Jun 20 2026

Don’t Worry, Trust God / No te preocupes, confía en Dios

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, Jesus warns us about serving two masters: “You cannot serve God and mammon.” If you’re like me, you aren’t certain exactly what mammon means. It’s anything in this world – such as material wealth, money, or possessions – that we look to for security i...

Jun 19 2026

The Inside Matters / Lo que importa es el interior

Click here for daily readings I would sum up the Gospel with the sentence, “What is inside is what matters.” Have you ever seen a row house? These are attached houses built all in a row, each one looking pretty much like the one next to it. Where I lived in New York there were […]

Jun 18 2026

Do You Really Want Forgiveness? / ¿De verdad quieres el perdón?

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, Jesus shares with us the core prayer of our faith, the Our Father. I find it most interesting that of all the different elements of this prayer, Jesus chooses to reiterate the section about forgiveness. He could have explained further what it means to...

Jun 17 2026

Truly Seen by the Father / Verdaderamente vistos por el Padre

Click here for daily readings There is a quiet kind of courage required to do good when no one is watching. Of course, it is easy to be generous, prayerful, or devout when there is an audience. The harder, deeper thing is to give, to pray, and to fast in the secret places of the heart. In […]

Jun 16 2026

What the Saints Taught Me About Perfection / Lo que los santos me enseñaron sobre la perfección

Click here for daily readings For most of my young adult life, I was not close to the saints. I’ll go one step further and tell you that I didn’t want to be close to them. I saw them, or what I understood of them, to be everything I am not. Perfect. In my misunderstanding, […]

Jun 15 2026

At All Costs / Cueste lo que cueste

Click here for daily readings “If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well.” Christ says this during the Sermon on the Mount, a few verses after the Beatitudes. This Sermon is one of His longest in Scripture, and it gives us a clear picture of […]

Jun 14 2026

The Kingdom Needs You / El Reino te necesita

Click here for daily readings Jesus’ Heart, ever overflowing with love, is moved with pity for the people before Him. He sees their struggles, their anguish, their abandonment, their desires. He sees that they are “like sheep without a shepherd,” and it is clear that there must be more “laborers for...

Jun 13 2026

Interior Obedience / La obediencia interior

Click here for daily readings The Law, written “by the finger of God” on stone tablets (see Exodus 31:18), was essentially the foundation stone of the Jewish people. God Himself gave them the Law after freeing them from slavery in Egypt and establishing them firmly as His Chosen People. It was the m...

Jun 12 2026

The Love of the Sacred Heart / El amor del Sagrado Corazón

Click here for daily readings Our three and six year old granddaughters live with us. They frequently say, “I love you so much in my little heart.” To be loved with this kind of purity shocks me, and yet it is the same unconditional love that Jesus offers when we unite our hearts to His. […]

Jun 11 2026

Letting Go of Anger / Soltar la ira

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel offers a strong lesson on anger, resolving disputes, and giving them to God. What’s amazing is that today is also the feast day of St. Barnabas. This is so appropriate because he was a good example of calmness and kindness – qualities we can try to emulat...

Jun 10 2026

Out of the Mouths of Babes / De las bocas de los bebés

Click here for daily readings “But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:19). As a father, what I practice is what I teach my little one. Before children can understand language, they simply watch and mirror the behavior modeled for...

Jun 09 2026

Be a Light, Not a Wildfire / Sé una luz, no un incendio

Click here for daily readings When I first embraced my faith twenty six years ago, I was on fire! I am pretty sure my husband thought I’d lost my mind. Maybe I had. I was determined that everyone I knew and loved would go to Heaven and that I was personally going to get them […]

Jun 08 2026

Made for More / Somos hechos para más

Click here for daily readings If we humans would write beatitudes based on what we instinctively think brings us blessing and happiness, they may read something like this: “Blessed are they who have plenty of money, for they will never be in need. Blessed are those for whom difficulties resolve and ...

Jun 07 2026

This is the Body of Christ / Este es el Cuerpo de Cristo

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel passage sums up the core of our Catholic faith. As impossible as it may seem, Jesus said, “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life.” It was a radical teaching, causing the Jews to argue, and many gave up following Jesus. They were heari...

Jun 06 2026

Nothing Left to Give / Nada más que dar

Click here for daily readings Even though my husband and I are usually spared from the stomach bugs that come into our home, one time we both succumbed to it. I woke up one morning feeling a little off. Within an hour I had thrown up. When I went into the bedroom to ask for […]