Category Archives: Kate Taliaferro

May 20 2024

Mary, Desolate / María, Desolada

Click here for daily readings Sometimes, things just don’t go the way we would like. Maybe we can even see it coming from a mile away, but that doesn’t make it any less disappointing, disheartening, or full of...

May 07 2024

Lose to Gain / Perder para Ganar

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel offers a unique insight into the work of sanctity in a few short lines. Jesus is talking with His apostles about how an Advocate, the Holy Spirit, will come to them. Howe...

Apr 29 2024

St. Catherine of Siena / Santa Catalina de Siena

Click here for daily readings Today is the feast day of St. Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Church. Throughout her life, St. Catherine was a prolific writer. She composed many prayers, including the following to the Hol...

Apr 14 2024

The Wounds of Christ / Las Heridas de Cristo

Click here for daily readings Back in 2007, a group of researchers compared the amount of food consumed between two groups. They were curious to discover if the evidence of food already eaten (in this case, individuals we...

Mar 21 2024

Jesus is God / Jesucristo es Dios

Click here for daily readings Today we hear unequivocally that Jesus is one with the Father. For the Pharisees, and indeed all Jews alike, Jesus’ words are blasphemous. How can a mere man standing before us claim th...

Mar 06 2024

The Old and New Testaments go Hand in Hand / El Antiguo y el Nuevo Testamento Van en Conjunto

Click here for daily readings There is a delicate line to tread when speaking about the Old and New Testaments. “Old” and “New” in this context do not necessarily mean old and new as one might cons...

Feb 27 2024

Phylacteries and Tassels / Filacterias y Franjas

Click here for daily readings To a 21st Century individual, the word “phylactery” isn’t commonplace. Tassels are more widely recognized, but usually as the fringe of a scarf or rug. What do these things ...

Feb 12 2024

How Friendship Works / La Amistad Funciona de Esta Forma

Click here for daily readings I think we can all appreciate the very human moments that the Gospel authors capture for us. In today’s Gospel, I think we can all hear in our minds Jesus’ sighing, “from th...

Jan 21 2024

To Answer the Call / Contestar la Llamada

Click here for daily readings Something very profound is going on in this brief passage about the call of the first apostles. Jesus calls, they follow. It’s a pretty simple cause and effect scenario. Yet, you and I ...

Jan 11 2024

Wholeness / La Plenitud

Click here for daily readings Today’s brief Gospel gives us a biblical preview for the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Pope Francis offered a beautiful Angelus reflection in 2015 on today’s Gospel that I would li...

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 06 2023

A Blueprint for Discipleship / Un Plan Para el Discipulado

Click here for daily readings We are a family of eight, so we typically drive for vacations or to visit family. When preparing for such a trip, I usually have two primary concerns that everything else flows from: how many...

Dec 01 2023

Time Passes / El Tiempo Pasa

Click here for daily readings December marks the final month of the year. It is a month that both flies and crawls by. For children, it is possibly the longest month of the whole year as they await the arrival of Christma...

Nov 09 2023

Don’t Miss the Forest / No Pierdas el Bosque

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel is a difficult one to read. We know Jesus is fully human, and therefore He must have experienced all ranges of human emotion. In this passage, we see Jesus’ anger c...

Oct 31 2023

Yeast / La Levadura

Click here for daily readings I love baking bread. The sweet-sour smell of fresh, wild yeast is fascinatingly complex. Watching simple ingredients transform over time from lumpy, shaggy dough to the soft, stretchy dome is...

Oct 08 2023

The Gift of the Mass / El Don de la Misa

Click here for daily readings In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus says, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I say to you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear wh...

Sep 25 2023

Cave Darkness / La Oscuridad de una Cueva

Click here for daily readings This past spring our family was on vacation in Colorado. We had never been in a cave before with our kids and decided this would be a fun excursion during our stay. We went to Cave of the Win...

Aug 30 2023

Living a Fiction / Viviendo el la Ficción

Click here for daily readings I love a good historical fiction story as much as anyone. It is fun to romanticize the past, to think about what life would have been like way back when (usually without much regard for the e...

Aug 12 2023

A Good Mentor / Un Buen Mentor

Click here for daily readings It’s hard to hear when we are wrong. It’s especially difficult to discover what we hoped to achieve was within our grasp, but we failed at some small detail, which led to a much l...

Jul 21 2023

What’s the Point? / ¿Cuál es el Punto?

Click here for daily readings I was recently talking with another mom about the struggles of exercising. She’s a piano teacher, so yoga is hard because of the stress it puts on her arms. She can’t run long str...