Category Archives: David Dashiell

May 06 2025

Trust in His Word / Confía en Su Palabra

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Apr 02 2025

You Know the Way / Tú conoces el camino

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Mar 01 2025

Limitless Potential / Potencial ilimitado

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Feb 01 2025

Evidence of Things Not Seen / La evidencia de lo que no se ve

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Jan 09 2025

Love What He Loves, Do What He DoesAma lo que Él ama, haz lo que Él hace

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Dec 05 2024

Follow the Lord / Seguir al Señor

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Dec 02 2024

Faith in the Word / Fe en la Palabra

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Nov 21 2024

A Kingdom of Priests / Un Reino de Sacerdotes

Click here for daily reading The Psalm today says that “the Lamb has made us a kingdom of priests to serve our God” (see Rev. 5:10). This is an easily glossed over but significant phrase. Jesus, the Lamb, has ...

Nov 11 2024

He Whose Hands Are Sinless / El de Manos Puras

Click here for daily reading “Who can ascend the mountain of the Lord? or who may stand in his holy place? He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean, who desires not what is vain” (Ps. 24:3–4). Ou...

Oct 26 2024

God’s Justice / La Justicia de Dios

Click here for daily reading If I were in the crowd listening to Jesus’ words today, I would be afraid. “Those eighteen people who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them – do you think they we...

Oct 03 2024

Do You Trust Him? / ¿Confías en Dios?

Click here for daily reading It might help to briefly summarize the Book of Job, since the book is so condensed in the readings we hear this week. After Job is afflicted, losing everything and everyone he loves most, losi...

Sep 07 2024

Christ, in Human Weakness / Cristo, en su Debilidad Humana

Click here for daily reading St. Paul admonishes the Corinthians in our first reading, criticizing their distinctions, boasting, and wealth. This is not the life of a disciple of Christ, or at least not the life of an apo...

Sep 02 2024

The Power and Wisdom of God / El Poder y la Sabiduría de Dios

Click here for daily reading “When I came to you, brothers and sisters, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom. . . . my message and my proclamation were not with persuas...

Aug 30 2024

One Step Ahead / Un Paso Adelante

Click here for daily reading “Stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour” (Matt. 25:13). Our Gospel reading ends with these words, a stark reminder that we should be ready for the Second Coming, or ...

Aug 03 2024

Responding to Bad News / Cómo Responder a las Malas Noticias

Click here for daily reading Both Jeremiah and St. John the Baptist brought unsettling news to their listeners. Jeremiah was sent by God to tell the people to repent of the evil they had done. The people almost put Jeremi...

Jul 15 2024

Love in Heart and Deed / Amar de Corazón y de Obra

Click here for daily reading Jesus explains what is meant by “learn to do good” (Is 1:16) in the Gospel, saying, “Whoever loves father or mother . . . . son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; ...

Jul 02 2024

Prepare to Meet Your God / Prepárate, Israel, a Comparecer Ante tu Dios

Click here for daily reading Today’s first reading is a bit frightening. It begins with consolation, but quickly turns to rebuke: “You alone have I favored, more than all the families of the earth; therefore I...

Jun 12 2024

God is Real, and His Way is the Only Way / Dios es Verdadero y Su Camino es el Único Camino

Click here for daily reading It’s not every day that we get to hear the account of the contest between Elijah and the 450 prophets of Baal. Elijah needed to show the people of Israel that the God of Abraham, Isaac, ...

Jun 09 2024

Hope at the End of the Struggle / Esperanza al Final de la Batalla

Click here for daily reading “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel who will not receiv...

May 09 2024

Those Who Believe / Aquellos Que Creen

Click here for daily reading Today is the Solemnity of the Ascension in many dioceses. Others transfer it to this coming Sunday, but I will focus on the readings for the Solemnity in this reflection. Jesus’ Ascensio...