Category Archives: Lent

Mar 09 2025

Stewards of the Gift / Administradores del don

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Mar 08 2025

All Are Called / Todos somos llamados

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Mar 07 2025

A Lenten Plan / Un plan para la Cuaresma

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Mar 06 2025

The Mark of Discipleship / La marca del discipulado

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Mar 05 2025

Return to Me / Vuélvanse a Mí

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Mar 23 2024

Are We Like the Pharisees? / ¿Somos Como los Fariseos?

Click here for daily readings In the Gospel of John today, we read how the Pharisees are planning to kill Jesus. Good Friday will soon be upon us, and we will once again witness the horrible beatings, the mockery, and the...

Mar 22 2024

Reflect and Repent / Reflexionar y Arrepentirse

Click here for daily readings On Sunday, Lent will end and Holy Week will begin. I will use this day to reflect on the things I did and failed to do during these last six weeks of preparation for the Passion of Jesus Chri...

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 20 2024

Am I Right or Am I Right? / ¿Tengo la Razón o Tengo la Razón?

Click here for daily readings At the time of Jesus’s life, many of the Jews were looking for the Messiah. The Pharisees used the letter of the law to do everything just right, in the hopes that they would be prepare...

Mar 19 2024

Beloved Saint Joseph / Querido San José

Click here for daily readings “Blessed are those who dwell in your house, O Lord; they never cease to praise you.” This verse before the Gospel reading at today’s Mass certainly describes St. Joseph, who...

Mar 18 2024

The Divine Teacher / El Divino Maestro

Click here for daily readings “But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them.” (John 8:2) This may seem like a pretty s...

Mar 17 2024

The Dynamic of the Grain of Wheat / La Dinámica del Grano de Trigo

Click here for daily readings Have you ever noticed how the Scriptures are filled with people just like ourselves whose lives take unexpected turns and then blossom in ways that can only be described as flourishing in and...

Mar 16 2024

Be the Living Word of God / Ser la Palabra Viva de Dios

Click here for daily readings In todays’ reading we hear about how the Pharisee sent officers out to hear what Jesus had to say and how the officers believed what they heard. In today’s world, we also hear the...

Mar 15 2024

The Mirror of Wisdom / El Espejo de la Sabiduría

Click here for daily readings When reviewing today’s first reading from the book of Wisdom, my mind kept wanting to respond with “just like the Scribes and the Pharisees and all of those who wanted to put Jesu...

Mar 14 2024

Believing God / Creer a Dios

Click here for daily reading As people of faith, we speak about “believing in God,” but we do not often talk about “believing God.” Our readings today highlight the difference. The Israelites in th...

Mar 13 2024

What’s New with God? / ¿Qué Hay de Nuevo con Dios?

Click here for daily readings When was the last time you learned something new about God? For me, it was when my twin boys became toddlers. They were starting to become “big boys” and get more independent. The...

Mar 12 2024

God’s Timing = Our Waiting / El Momento de Dios = La Espera Nuestra

Click here for daily readings It struck me that the man Jesus healed waited for 38 years. That’s a long time to suffer. St. Monica prayed patiently and persistently for many years for her son St. Augustine. We learn...

Mar 11 2024

A New Heaven and a New Earth / Un Cielo Nuevo y una Tierra Nueva

Click here for daily readings The Bible starts out by establishing that everything that exists is created by God. As God created the world and all that is in it, He declared it good. God doesn’t stop at simply good,...

Mar 10 2024

For God so Loved the World! / ¡Porque Tanto Amó Dios al Mundo!

Click here for daily readings John 3:16 contains one of the most well-known Bible verses to mankind: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but m...

Mar 09 2024

The True Meaning of Blessing / El Verdadero Significado de la Bendición

Click here for daily readings Humility, that misunderstood virtue, saves us from the theatrical pretenses to which all of us are drawn. Who hasn’t boasted occasionally of something they’ve accomplished? Who ha...