Category Archives: Merridith Frediani

Aug 08 2023

The Storms of Life / Las Tormentas de la Vida

Click here for daily readings A friend of mine went to the Sea of Galilee where today’s Gospel takes place. Because of how it is situated, it is subject to sudden violent storms when the wind comes from the ea...

Jul 05 2023

God is Always Good / Dios es Siempre Bueno

Click here for daily readings Jesus is powerful. He heals everything. Even demons listen to him. The world is sick. It’s easy to feel discouraged seeing all the suffering. So many teenagers and young adults struggle...

Jun 02 2023

The Flying Novena / La Novena Volada

Click here for daily readings I suspect that if St. Mother Teresa commanded a mountain to be taken up and cast in the sea, the mountain would waste no time to get going. Such was the faith of this amazing woman. I l...

May 29 2023

His Friends / Sus Amigos

Click here for daily readings Godspell, the musical from 1973, is an assault to one’s eyes with its rainbow-haired Jesus and 70’s nonconformist vibe. It marries two different ways of looking at the world: the ...

Apr 04 2023

Spiritual Seasons / Temporadas Espirituales

Click here for daily readings As I write this, the days are getting shorter. In a few weeks we will ”fall behind” and the sun will set earlier. When you read this we will be on the other side, closer to the &l...

Mar 04 2023

Jesus Wants to Transform Us / Jesús Quiere Transformarnos

Click here for daily readings As part of my penance a priest told me to pray for a person who’d hurt me. It was a big hurt, one that took much out of me and required many long processing conversations. My feelings t...

Feb 22 2023

Ash Wednesday / Miércoles de Ceniza

Click here for daily readings We are reminded today to give alms, pray, and fast. We remember that we don’t do these things for the world, but rather we do them for God and our Father who sees in secret will reward ...

Jul 11 2022

Loving God First / Amar a Dios Primero

Click here for daily readings This Gospel is challenging. Loving anyone more than I love my family feels impossible. It is hard thinking that God gave me these people to journey through life with only to say “love t...

Jun 06 2022

Mary Our Mother

Click here for daily readings In addition to giving himself in the Eucharist, Jesus shared his mother with us too. When he told John, “Behold your mother,” we all received a spiritual mother and she’s a ...

May 09 2022

I Know My Sheep

Click here for daily readings Our practice is to attend 8:30 Sunday Mass but sometimes that doesn’t work out. One Monday after such a time, I ran into my priest and he asked where we were the preceding day. “I...

Apr 04 2022

God Will Save You

Click here for daily readings There are four poignant verses in the story of Susanna that exemplify the battle between good and evil. The two elders saw Susanna’s beauty, and treating her as an object instead of a p...

Mar 13 2022

Our Mountaintop Experiences

Click here for daily readings Last summer I attended a Theology of the Body course and had a mountaintop experience. A diverse group of people from around the world came together to learn about St. John Paul II’s te...

Feb 18 2022

Whoever Is Ashamed Of Me

Click here for daily readings Being ashamed of someone implies a familial relationship, a deep level of caring. We can get mad at people in whom we have no emotional investment. Being ashamed is reserved for t...

Jan 09 2022

You Are God’s Beloved Child

Click here for daily readings While admiring photos of a friend’s daughter I thought that how she feels – the pride, love, and joy – is how God feels about us. Our love for our own children is mirr...

Dec 24 2021

Jesus is Born!

Click here for daily readings In preparing for Christmas in Italy, a family will assemble an intricate, detailed Nativity Scene called a presepe. This custom was started by our beloved St. Francis of Assisi on Chris...

Nov 28 2021

Happy New Year!

Click here for daily readings Happy New Year! Today is the first day of the new Liturgical Year as well as the first Sunday of Advent. Today we begin our watch. Today we begin to prepare for the birth of our Lord. The day...

Oct 28 2021

Our True Identity

Click here for daily readings One of my daughter’s friends announced that she is non-binary, changing her name to Shawn, and using they/them pronouns. In response to questions she said she is more comfortable with t...

Sep 28 2021

Living Righteously

Click here for daily readings In today’s reading from 1 Peter for the memorial of St. Wenceslaus, we hear about righteousness and suffering. “Righteous” is a tricky word. It’s associated with surfe...

Aug 29 2021

First Fruit

Click here for daily readings Imagine “nothing.” In the beginning there was nothing. From nothing God brought into existence everything. When I try to imagine what nothing is, I envision complete darkness, but...

Jul 28 2021

Giving it All

Click here for daily readings It is good for me to remind myself, when I get mired down in the daily mess of life, that my time on earth is transitory. In the entirety of my existence, beginning with conception and contin...