Category Archives: Lent

Apr 01 2026

Ears to Hear / Oídos para escuchar

Click here for daily readings “Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back” (Isaiah 50:4-5). Isaiah’s suffering servant from today’s first reading captures three key points for our consideration. First, discipleship is a day to day commitment...

Mar 31 2026

It Was Night / Era de noche

Click here for daily readings It is Tuesday of Holy Week. We are nearing the holiest days of the year, the Triduum, and after hearing the Gospel of the Passion last Sunday, our hearts should be aching with anticipation of the events we are calle...

Mar 30 2026

Let Her Keep This / Deja que guarde esto

Click here for daily readings After Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, He returns to Bethany and dines with Lazarus and his sisters. Mary lavishes Jesus’ feet with costly aromatic nard. Around them, crowds press in to gawk at the miracle worker and see for themselves the man who, rumor has it, sta...

Mar 29 2026

A Week to Feel His Profound Love / Una semana para sentir su profundo amor

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel reading reveals the depths of divine love through Jesus’ suffering and sacrifice. This passage is enormously long! As we stand to listen to the Gospel proclaimed during Mass, you may feel your knees b...

Mar 28 2026

Our God is Great! / ¡Nuestro Dios es grande!

Click here for daily readings Tomorrow, we begin the holiest week of the year. But before we begin to focus on Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection, we read in Ezekiel and Jeremiah what God will do for us. He will unify us, give us land, deliv...

Mar 27 2026

The Importance of Details / La importancia de los detalles

Click here for daily readings Have you ever stopped to think about how important details are? How countless white and yellow lines painted on roads keep millions of people safe day in and day out. How the exact amount of ingredients, down to a quarter of a teaspoon can make or break a delicious reci...

Mar 26 2026

Nothing and Everything / Nada y todo

Click here for daily readings “I am making you the father of a host of nations.” “I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are now staying.” “If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing; but it is my Father w...

Mar 25 2026

“I Am the Handmaid of the Lord” / “Yo soy la esclava del Señor”

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel is the pivot point in all of human history, all of salvation history, all of eternity. Everything hinges on this moment when an angel brings a stupendous message to a young virgin in Galilee. Everything has been leading up to this moment, all of history ...

Mar 24 2026

Because I Said So / Porque te lo he dicho

Click here for daily readings “Because I said so.” Kids are flummoxed by this response. So much so that many of us, having heard it as children, swore that we would never say it to our own kids. Then, life humbles us, and there we are: Why no fo...

Mar 23 2026

“Neither do I condemn you” / “Yo tampoco te condeno”

Click here for daily readings Jesus did not condemn her. The Pharisees wanted her stoned. They were requesting her death for this sin and I suspect would have been okay with throwing some of those stones if given the chance. How often do we want to throw stones? So often. It’s really easy to see […...

Mar 22 2026

Jesus’ Timing / El momento de Jesús

Jesus loved Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, so He waited. This is such a difficult passage to swallow. Like Martha who cries to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died,” we, too, cry out to Jesus when the answers we seek are long in coming. I found the disciples’ reaction […]

Mar 21 2026

Full Hearts / Corazones llenos

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel presents us with three groups of people: The crowd, the Pharisees and the guards. The crowd was on fire with Jesus’ teaching. Their hearts were full. Then pride gets in the way. They stop thinking about how they felt and an argument breaks out. The guards...

Mar 20 2026

God’s Guiding Hand / La guía de Dios

Click here for daily readings For me, Lent is a time to think about the moral life and how well I am doing when it comes to moral decisions. Often, when we take time to reflect on where we are at, we can start to see the faith as quite suppressi...

Mar 19 2026

The Quiet Strength of St. Joseph / La fortaleza silenciosa de San José

Click here for daily readings My son Joseph studies engineering at a university thirty minutes from our home. He lives on campus, but when he returns to our noisy home, his quiet calm is palpable. He slips in the side door, a slight smile on his face, arms laden with a backpack and a basket […]

Mar 18 2026

The Lord is gracious and merciful / El Señor es compasivo y misericordioso

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings had me reflecting on God’s infinite love for us, for He gave His life to save us from sin. During certain times of our life, we may enter into a dark stage when we see our own needs above all else. We distance ourselves from God and stop […]

Mar 17 2026

Do You Want to Be Well? / ¿Quieres curarte?

Click here for daily readings Thirty-eight years…The man in today’s Gospel had been ill for thirty-eight years. I inhale deeply when I hear that number. Thirty-eight was the age when I was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, a diagnosis that found me running to the Divine Healer’s river of me...

Mar 16 2026

The Heart of Christ / El corazón de Cristo

Click here for daily readings “This was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee.” First the water into wine; now the healing of the soldier’s son. There is more than one parallel between these two miracles, parallels that reveal to us something important about the Heart of Our Lord. The f...

Mar 15 2026

Expect the Unexpected! / ¡Esperar lo inesperado!

Click here for daily readings Both the first reading and the Gospel point to the same theme – God is full of surprises. And His Son is as well. We see the outward appearance of people and make decisions about them. Or are we judging? You may know certain people more intimately, so there are […]

Mar 14 2026

God Just Wants You / Dios solo te quiere a ti

Click here for daily readings “All who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted.” (Luke 18:14) It’s a phrase that’s made its way into everyday wisdom—even outside of religious settings. We say things like: ...

Mar 13 2026

The Greatest Commandment / El Gran Mandamiento

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel appears in the early days of Holy Week when Jesus is preaching in Jerusalem and being questioned by the chief priests, scribes, and elders. The answer to today’s question, which is often referred to as the Greatest Commandment, is one any catechist might ...