Category Archives: Kate Taliaferro

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...

Jul 11 2023

Sheep Without a Shepherd / Ovejas Sin Pastor

Click here for daily readings “At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd” (Matthew 9:36). Every Gospel passage h...

Jun 20 2023

Tough Questions / Preguntas Difíciles

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel was full of meaning for Jesus’ contemporaries, for the early Christian communities, for Christians throughout all of history, and continues to be a call to action t...

Jun 10 2023

The Present Moment / El Momento Presente

Click here for daily readings Our family was blessed to live a few hours from my husband’s grandmother for several years before she passed away. In that time, she became another grandmother to me and I cherish the m...

May 12 2023

The Art of Loving / El Arte de Amar

Click here for daily readings “Love one another as I have loved you.” Such a powerful and difficult command. There is much to unpack, reflect upon and discover in this single phrase of Jesus. Many, many,...

May 08 2023

The Holy Spirit Dwells Within / El Espíritu Santo Habita en Nosotros

Click here for daily readings I love how well Jesus knows us. We believe Jesus was fully human and fully divine, but sometimes we have a tendency to lean into one aspect more than the other. For the times you see Jesus as...

Apr 17 2023

Nature vs. Nurture / ¿Naturaleza o Crianza?

Click here for daily readings As science continues to study the human person, there has been a continual debate about “nature vs. nurture.” What is “baked in,” if you will, to our genes, and what i...

Mar 11 2023

The Lost and Found / Perdido y Encontrado

Click here for daily readings The story of the Prodigal Son is one of Jesus’ most famous parables. Many of Jesus’ parables are a few brief verses, but here He chooses to include many details and paints a vivid...

Feb 14 2023

Fresh Bread / Pan Fresco

Click here for daily readings I love when the Scriptures capture for us common, human moments between Jesus and the disciples. The disciples, again, forgot to bring enough food. Come on guys! So when Jesus makes a comment...

Jan 30 2023

Jesus is Listening / Jesús Está Escuchando

Click here for daily readings I have been so blessed by these Gospel reflections. They cause me to pause and really delve into specific passages that perhaps I have glanced over before. They provide the Holy Spirit greate...

Jan 21 2023

The Other Side of the Mountain / El Otro Lado de la Montaña

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel passage is surprisingly short and could use some context. Just prior to these brief two verses, Mark relays how Jesus went up a mountain and called forth His twelve apost...