Category Archives: David Dashiell

Oct 13 2022

God’s Plan / El Plan de Dios

Click here for daily reading The introduction to St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians is a mouthful for lectors and an earful for listeners, but it is profound in its depth. Instead of glossing over it, as we tend to ...

Sep 28 2022

God Knows Best / Dios Sabe Mejor

Click here for daily reading This week, we are making a brief run through the Book of Job. The excerpts that we receive at Mass may seem a bit confusing out of context. It’s helpful to get the context of the other c...

Aug 12 2022

Marriage in God’s Eyes / El Matrimonio en los Ojos de Dios

Click here for daily reading If these readings tell us anything, it’s that God takes marriage very seriously. He espouses Israel to Himself, and intends to keep His end of the covenant even when she has broken hers....

Aug 05 2022

God’s Wrath / La Ira de Dios

Click here for daily reading This probably isn’t the sort of Psalm we expected to hear: “It is I who deal death and give life.” It is not often that our readings cause us to reflect on the vengeance of G...

Jul 21 2022

Devotion / La Devoción

Click here for daily reading “I remember the devotion of your youth, how you loved me as a bride, Following me in the desert, in a land unsown” (Jer. 2:2). As our readings begin, the Lord reminisces about the ...

Jul 08 2022

God Alone / Solo Dios

Click here for daily reading Our readings begin with a clear reminder of God’s all-encompassing providence: “Because of me you bear fruit!” (Hos. 14:9). We hear this theme echoed throughout Scripture, es...

Mar 19 2022

Glorious St. Joseph

Click here for daily reading As we focus on Joseph, it might be good to dispel some rumors about him, helping us to see him for the glorious saint that he is. The following words rely heavily on Mike Aquilina’s St. ...

Mar 11 2022

Stay Close to Christ

Click here for daily reading As with Lent itself, our readings today are sobering. We might not recognize it at first, focusing instead on the message of hope: “If the wicked man turns away from all the sins he comm...

Feb 23 2022

Memento Mori – Remember That You Will Die

Click here for daily reading We hear a strange reprimand from St. James today: “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a pr...

Jan 24 2022

Blasphemy Against the Spirit?

Click here for daily reading Our Gospel gives us an opportunity to address one of the more confusing passages in Scripture: “‘Amen, I say to you, all sins and blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven the...

Dec 06 2021

Christ is Lord

Click here for daily reading The Pharisees react understandably to Jesus in our Gospel. As He is teaching, Jesus sees a man being brought down through the roof on a stretcher, and He immediately forgives his sins. It must...

Dec 02 2021

Doing God’s Will

Click here for daily reading Every now and again, we hear something in Scripture, as in our Gospel today, that reminds us to not just listen, but act. We need to be doers of the Word, not just hearers, as St. James says (...

Nov 24 2021

Prepare for Battle

Click here for daily reading This week we have occasion to think of the end of time. Immediately, Jesus’ words in the Gospels are referring to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in AD 70. Think of the phrase...

Oct 07 2021

Tips on the Rosary

Click here for daily reading “You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God, and what do we profit by keeping his command, and going about in penitential dress in awe of the LORD of hosts?’” (Mal 3:14). ...

Sep 30 2021

Zeal for the Lord

Click here for daily reading Saint Jerome, Doctor of the Church, was a towering figure in the Church’s history, and we can learn some interesting things from the way he served the Lord. The First Reading from his sp...

Sep 29 2021

The Holy Archangels

Click here for daily reading Today, we celebrate the feast of the archangels, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. We don’t use many occasions to speak about the angels, but they are all over Scripture. From our readings,...