Category Archives: Dakota Pesce

Jul 19 2022

Inviting God In / Invitando Entrar a Dios

Click here for daily readings I think that today’s Gospel is easy to misunderstand and that we tend to hear something negative in Jesus’ words. When He is approached by someone saying that His mother and His b...

Jul 04 2022

Closeness to Christ / Cercanía a Cristo

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, we hear two instances of Jesus restoring life. In both cases, it is through proximity, through closeness to Jesus that the person is healed. On His way to heal a youn...

Jun 13 2022

Love’s Response to Evil

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel we hear the famous words of Christ to “turn the other cheek” to those who are evil. The command “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” was...

Jun 05 2022

Mission

Click here for daily readings Today we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost – the day the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles in the Upper Room and the day in which the Church was started. In the Upper Room, C...

May 31 2022

Mary’s Joy

Click here for daily readings Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Visitation refers to Mary going to visit her cousin, Elizabeth, while carrying in her heart the good news of the...

May 25 2022

Making the Unbearable Bearable

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel Christ tells His disciples, “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now”. Jesus knows the hearts of His disciples; He knows they love Him. Bu...

May 05 2022

Flesh for the World

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel we hear part of what is commonly referred to as Jesus’ Bread of Life discourse. The imagery Jesus presents is powerful and His words form the foundation of our E...

Apr 29 2022

The Soul’s Surrender

Click here for daily readings “So let your heart hold back no longer. Let the city of your soul surrender–for Christ has set fire everywhere, and there is nowhere you can turn, physically or spiritually, witho...

Apr 22 2022

Easter People

Click here for daily readings He is Risen! Indeed He is Risen! How powerful is today’s First Reading from Acts of the Apostles! We hear that Peter and John are arrested for doing good and miraculous works in the nam...

Mar 31 2022

Christ’s Testimony

Click here for daily readings In our day to day lives, we hear a lot of testimonies. All we have to do is turn on the television or go to YouTube and we see an advertisement with a celebrity promoting something that will ...

Mar 02 2022

The Sacrifice of Words

Click here for daily readings In the Gospel, we are told by Jesus of the importance of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving as well as the proper way to participate in those sacrifices. When we pray, fast, and give alms, we sh...

Feb 17 2022

How God Thinks

Click here for daily readings When I think of the most relatable person in the Bible, Peter is often the first to come to mind. He messes up. A lot. The event we hear of in the Gospel is one of those times. Rather than em...

Feb 09 2022

The Cultivation of Interior Devotion

Click here for daily readings The parable Christ tells in today’s Gospel would have been difficult for the people of His time. There were strict laws on what constituted clean food and unclean food but now Jesus is ...

Jan 22 2022

Standing for Truth

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel is short, only 2 verses. When I first read it I thought to myself, “Now what in the world am I going to write about for this Gospel?! There’s nothing there!&r...

Jan 08 2022

Pray and Live with Confidence

Click here for daily readings What hope we hear in the readings today! In the First Reading, John encourages us to pray confidently because we have assurance of eternal life. But is it really that easy? In whom is o...

Dec 28 2021

The Martyrdom of the Holy Innocents

Click here for daily readings Today, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, we remember the massacre of young boys in Bethlehem by King Herod the Great in the time of Jesus. Herod orders the death of innocent children out of...

Nov 06 2021

The Humility of Christ

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel Acclamation is one of my favorite verses in the Bible: “Jesus Christ became poor although he was rich, so that by his poverty you might become rich.” In this ...

Oct 22 2021

John Paul the Great and the Love of Christ

Click here for daily readings What a joy and blessing it is to write a reflection for the Memorial of St. John Paul the Great! Today’s reflection will be on the optional set of readings for JPII’s Memorial. In...

Oct 16 2021

God is Faithful

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel Christ is warning His disciples (and us) to practice what we preach. It is not only through our words that we can deny Christ; through our actions—and even throu...

Oct 08 2021

Hearts United In Christ

Click here for daily readings “And blasphemy, the sin against the Holy Spirit, is the one unforgivable sin…because it comes from closing the heart to God’s mercy which acts in Jesus.” -Pope Franci...