Category Archives: David Dashiell

May 02 2024

Love and Morality / Amor y Moralidad

Click here for daily reading In today’s first reading from Acts 15, Peter and James stress the importance of God extending His covenant to the Gentiles. Rather than placing undue burden on the Gentiles by imposing o...

Apr 21 2024

Different Expressions of Faith and Worship / Diferentes Expresiones de Fe y Adoración

Click here for daily reading God’s vision to St. Peter centers on the command to eat animals that Jewish law did not permit them to eat. Peter understandably recoils when God tells him to slaughter the animals and e...

Apr 15 2024

Letting Go / Dejando los Apegos

Click here for daily reading Our readings today describe the Jews’ encounter with St. Stephen and Jesus’ Bread of Life Discourse, in which He invited the crowds to eat His flesh and drink His blood. It is the ...

Mar 30 2024

God Does Not Make Mistakes / Dios Nunca se Equivoca

Click here for daily reading Today, Holy Saturday, there are no “readings of the day,” but those of us attending the Easter Vigil will have more than enough Scripture to make up for it. Hearing the readings, w...

Mar 14 2024

Believing God / Creer a Dios

Click here for daily reading As people of faith, we speak about “believing in God,” but we do not often talk about “believing God.” Our readings today highlight the difference. The Israelites in th...

Feb 26 2024

Undeserved Mercy / La Misericordia Inmerecida

Click here for daily reading During Lent, we have many occasions to express contrition, sorrow for our sins. Alongside this contrition are frequent reminders of the great mercy of God. In our first reading, Daniel goes th...

Feb 13 2024

Expect the Miraculous / Esperar los Milagros

Click here for daily reading In our Gospel today, Jesus tells the disciples to “guard against the leaven of the Pharisees.” His statement might seem strange to us, since it was strange to the disciples at the ...

Jan 29 2024

God’s Strange Providence / La Extraña Providencia de Dios

Click here for daily reading In the first reading, David shows profound humility. After his sin with Bathsheba and Uriah, he is experiencing the breakdown of his kingdom and the personal cost of grave sin. David has many ...

Jan 09 2024

One Having Authority / Una Persona de Autoridad

Click here for daily reading “The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes” (Mark 1:22). As we begin Ordinary Time, we are also beginning Mark&r...

Dec 29 2023

What Would Jesus Do? / ¿Qué Haría Jesús?

Click here for daily reading “Whoever claims to abide in him ought to walk just as he walked” (1 John 2:6). During the Christmas season, we have an opportunity to reflect on the mystery of the Word Made Flesh,...

Dec 07 2023

God’s Initiative / La Iniciativa de Dios

Click here for daily reading Today’s readings are full of deference to God in a particularly interesting way. “He sets up walls and ramparts to protect us”. “Open up the gates to let in a nation th...

Nov 20 2023

The Treasure of the Faith / El Tesoro de la Fe

Click here for daily reading As we hear today, the story of the Maccabees did not start out as a violent persecution. It started with a new Greek king, Antiochus Epiphanes. Some of the Israelites in the area thought that ...

Nov 14 2023

We Owe Him Everything / Debemos Todo a Dios

Click here for daily reading On the one hand, today’s Gospel does not seem fair. The servant comes in after a long day of plowing or tending sheep, and is tired, hungry, and thirsty. He receives the master’s g...

Oct 29 2023

A Blueprint for Charity / Un Plan para la Caridad

Click here for daily reading *** This reflection was reposted from Diocesan Archives. *** As we continue to hear of the difficult questions posed to Jesus, we come to the Great Commandment: “You shall love the Lord,...

Oct 24 2023

The Bill Comes Due Always / La Factura Siempre Vence

Click here for daily reading The hosts of a podcast I listen to (Catching Foxes) are fond of quoting a line from a Marvel movie: “The bill comes due always.” The point is that no matter what you do, there will...

Oct 17 2023

Reclaiming Our Wonder / Recuperando el Asombro

Click here for daily reading In our first reading, St. Paul is elaborating on the core message of the Psalm: “The heavens proclaim the glory of God” (Psalm 19:2a). Even to the Romans, who have been far from Ch...

Sep 16 2023

There, But for the Grace of God, Go I / Por la Gracias de Dios, Allí Voy

Click here for daily reading “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Of these I am the foremost. But for that reason I was mercifully treated, so that in me, as the foremost, Christ Jesus might display al...

Sep 11 2023

Redemptive Suffering / Sufrimiento Redentor

Click here for daily reading St. Paul’s words today about “filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ” open up to us a deeper perspective on the Christian life. As Christians, we are followe...

Aug 24 2023

Come and See / Ven y Verás

Click here for daily reading Bartholomew, known as Nathanael in our Gospel, is the apostle we celebrate today. He became a great witness to Christ, eventually suffering martyrdom for Him. As we honor Bartholomew, it&rsquo...

Aug 09 2023

Transcendent Intimacy / Intimidad Profunda

Click here for daily reading God is further beyond us than we can ever imagine. He is infinite, and His power, knowledge, love, and existence are on a level unfathomably different than ours. He has given us everything we ...