Category Archives: Kathryn Mulderink

Jun 07 2024

The Pierced Heart of Our God/ El Corazón Traspasado de Nuestro Dios

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings draw us into the infinite Divine Love that is symbolized by the Heart of Christ. Hosea describes the tender, fatherly love of God, raising His people to His cheek, and ...

May 31 2024

Haste and Humility / La Prisa y la Humildad

Click here for daily readings Love does not take a delayed approach to the needs of others, but rather “hastens” to bring whatever help is possible. The deeper the love, the less concern one has about calculat...

May 17 2024

Forgiveness and Restoration / Perdón y Restauración

Click here for daily readings Breakfast on the beach with Jesus would not have been enough to convince the deeply sorrowful Peter that he was still loved by Jesus, still trusted enough by Jesus to lead the Church. Peter, ...

Apr 30 2024

Just as the Father has Commanded / Tal Como el Padre ha Mandado

Click here for daily readings “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you… Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.” Jesus gives us the peace that only He can give: a peace that can remain stea...

Apr 20 2024

Shepherding Our Hearts to the Father’s / Pastoreando el Corazón Hacia el Corazón de Dios Padre

Click here for daily readings The Holy Spirit is burning within Peter, the first of the Apostles, as he proclaims the truth about Jesus to the leaders of the Jews in today’s First Reading: Jesus Christ is the stone ...

Apr 04 2024

Look at My Hands and My Feet / Miren Mis Manos y Mis Pies

Click here for daily readings Alleluia! He is risen. The Anointed One, Crucified One, the Pierced One, is now the Risen One. We have pondered and prepared for 40 days, and now we celebrate for 50 days, beginning with thes...

Mar 24 2024

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion / Domingo de Ramos de la Pasión del Señor

Click here for daily readings What more can be said about today’s Gospel? We hear the proclamation of this Gospel in several voices, to help us enter into these final days of Jesus’ earthly life. The scheming ...

Mar 03 2024

He Understands Us Well / Dios Nos Entiende Bien

Click here for daily readings Jesus came to save. From what? From sin, yes. From death, yes. But he goes to the very root cause of those things in every word and action of his life – and the root is hypocrisy and eg...

Feb 23 2024

What God Really Wants / Lo Que Dios Realmente Quiere

Click here for daily readings Jesus often calls his listeners to surpass the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, the ones who kept the Law perfectly and put themselves in high places of judgment over others. We ar...

Feb 22 2024

Keys That Bind and Loose / Llaves que Atan y Desatan

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel, we encounter a pivotal moment in the life of Jesus and the foundation of His Church: the profound truth that because of Peter’s clear confession of faith, he be...

Feb 14 2024

A Silent Proclamation on our Foreheads / Una Proclamación Silenciosa en la Frente

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel sets the tone for the whole season of Lent, a season marked deeply by self-examination and repentance, reflection and reparation, all of which are encapsulated in the rem...

Jan 15 2024

The Utterly Unique Bridegroom / El Novio Absolutamente Único

Click here for daily readings Jesus is utterly new. He teaches something utterly new. He is not to be sewn into an old cloak or poured into an old wineskin. Rather, he completes the old cloak in a surprising way! He requi...

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...

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 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 12 2023

What a Mother We Have! / ¡Qué Madre tan Increíble Tenemos!

Click here for daily readings The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a familiar one: on the rough tilma of a peasant is an image of a mixed-race woman (a mestiza) who is pregnant, standing on the moon (the Aztec symbol for...

Nov 24 2023

The Radical Call of Christ / El Llamado Radical de Cristo

Click here for daily readings “My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me” (Jn 10:27). The Gospel Antiphon summarizes what is happening in today’s Gospel. Jesus is preaching a...

Nov 21 2023

Whoever Does the Will of My Father / El que Hace la Voluntad de Mi Padre

Click here for daily readings Today we celebrate the Memorial of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple as a child. This celebration was first documented in Jerusalem in the 500s (there was a church built in ho...

Nov 10 2023

Shrewdness for Eternity / La Astucia Para la Eternidad

Click here for daily readings My now-adult children recall that sometimes while they were bickering when they were little they would come running to me to arbitrate, both of them confident that I would take their side, vi...

Oct 16 2023

Something Greater / Algo Mejor

Click here for daily readings Jonah and the Ninevites, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Jesus and his people… What’s the connection? Jonah’s warning to the Gentile Ninevites brought them to repentance an...