Category Archives: Inspiration Daily

Jan 03 2024

Behold the Lamb / Éste es el Cordero de Dios

Click here for daily readings St. John the Baptist is the model of simple evangelization: he understands what God is currently doing and asking of His People, and he testifies to what he has experienced to point to God. J...

Jan 02 2024

True Humility / La Humildad Verdadera

Click here for daily readings When I think of humility, I always recoil a little, because I automatically think of the worldly definition of humility. I think that’s a normal human reaction, especially when we are i...

Jan 01 2024

Mary is With Us / María Está con Nosotros

Click here for daily readings Happy New Year! Today, we celebrate motherhood. Specifically, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. The last few weeks have been filled with images o...

Dec 31 2023

The Sorrows of Mary / Los Dolores de María

Click here for daily readings “Your sufferings, accepted and borne with unshakeable faith, when joined to those of Christ take on extraordinary value for the life of the Church and the good of humanity”. (Mess...

Dec 30 2023

Luck, Timing, and Who You Know / La Suerte, el Momento Oportuno y a Quién Conoces

Click here for daily readings From a more secular perspective, much of our life comes down to, “luck, timing, and who you know.” As people of faith, we know there is a bit more to it than this. Considering Ann...

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 28 2023

The Feast of the Holy Innocents / La Fiesta de los Santos Inocentes

Click here for daily readings Today we remember the Holy Innocents. I have read some commentaries in the past that they believed that only a handful of babies were actually killed. Then, others as many as 144,000. I don&rsquo...

Dec 27 2023

The Feast of St. John / La Fiesta de San Juan

Click here for daily readings This is a passage we’ve all heard countless times, the discovery of Jesus’ empty tomb by Mary Magdalene, Peter, and John. But we hear it again today during the Christmas season on...

Dec 26 2023

On the Feast of Stephen / En la Fiesta de San Esteban

Click here for daily readings Merry Christmas! While some of our neighbors may have already taken down their decorations, as Catholics, we know the celebration is just beginning. We even have a special carol just for toda...

Dec 25 2023

The Glory of Christmas / La Gloria de la Navidad

Click here for daily readings “And the Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us, and we saw His glory.” Today, as we hear in my favorite Christmas song, O Holy Night, “the weary world rejoices.&r...

Dec 24 2023

“Let Our Adoration Never Cease!” / “¡Que Nunca Dejemos de Adorarlo!”

Click here for daily readings I can remember cherished moments as a child turning the living room lights low on Christmas eve and sitting with a cup of hot chocolate before the nativity scene. I loved singing Christmas ca...

Dec 23 2023

Blessings on the Blessed / Bendiciones para los Bendecidos

Click here for daily readings Zechariah had been unable to speak for nine months, because he doubted the angel who announced the upcoming birth of his son. Now, on the eighth day after his birth, Elizabeth and Zechariah a...

Dec 22 2023

Magnifying the Greatness of God / Glorificando la Grandeza de Dios

Click here for daily readings Mary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God, my savior.” Mary’s “Fiat”, her magnificent “YES” to God, an...

Dec 21 2023

Looking Outward / Mirando Hacia Afuera

Click here for daily readings Each of the women in today’s Gospel would have had every reason to be preoccupied with her own situation; both are unexpectedly pregnant under extraordinary circumstances. Despite that...

Dec 20 2023

A Garden of Love / Un Jardín de Amor

Click here for daily readings When the Blessed Mother says her historic, momentous, earth-shattering “yes” to God in today’s gospel reading, she probably had little idea that she would become the spiritu...

Dec 19 2023

Wonder and Might / Asombro y Poder

Click here for daily readings Our God is a God of wonder and might, of making the impossible possible and, who will, as Elizabeth says, “take away my disgrace before others.” Has God ever taken away your disgr...

Dec 18 2023

Christmas in July / La Navidad en Julio

Click here for daily readings A little research says a summer camp in North Carolina first celebrated “Christmas in July” 90 years ago, in 1933, and a comedic movie, “Christmas in July,” came out i...

Dec 17 2023

Gaudete Sunday / Domingo de Gaudete

Click here for daily readings Rejoicing is the theme of today’s readings on this Gaudete Sunday. We are filled with joy, because the Lord is coming and is almost here! “God is the joy of my soul,” the pr...

Dec 16 2023

Prepare the Way of the Lord / Preparar el Camino del Señor

Click here for daily readings Jesus and his disciples are “coming down from the mountain” after a momentous, never-before-seen, never-to-be-repeated event, the Transfiguration of Jesus, which reveals his Divin...

Dec 15 2023

We Are Nothing without Christ / No Somos Nada Sin Cristo

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, Jesus was talking to a crowd of people, teaching about John the Baptist. He said to them, “To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children who sit ...