Category Archives: Mike Karpus

Mar 18 2023

Our True Selves / Nuestro Verdadero Yo

Click here for daily readings Every person’s life is a journey. We start out as babies and grow into our true selves. And if we’re honest with ourselves, we realize that our “selves” aren’t r...

Feb 18 2023

Just a Glimpse / Solo un Vistazo

Click here for daily readings As you read this, Lent is four days away. Perhaps you already have in place your plan for prayer, fasting and almsgiving, the three pillars we use to support our preparation for the glorious ...

Jan 18 2023

Essence of the Law / La Esencia de la Ley

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel is six verses long. Just the first six verses of the Gospel of Mark. The passage is both straightforward and very confusing at the same time. Jesus, the good Jew, enters ...

Dec 17 2022

The Wisdom of God / La Sabiduría de Dios

Click here for daily readings “O Wisdom of our God Most High, guiding creation with power and love: come to teach us the path of knowledge!” I never knew my maternal grandfather; he died a year and a hal...

Dec 02 2022

Whom Should I Fear? / ¿A Quién Debo Temer?

Click here for daily readings “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The Lord is my life’s refuge; of whom should I be afraid?” Friday of the first week of Advent, day six of the sea...

Nov 13 2022

The End Is The Beginning / El Final es el Inicio

Click here for daily readings We’ve come to that point in time, the penultimate (second to last) Sunday of the Liturgical Year, when our readings for the day are all about the end of time. Death, destruction, doom a...

Oct 31 2022

Start Small / Empezando Pequeño

Click here for daily readings Modern society would have us declare today is Halloween. Costumes, jack o’ lanterns, trick-or-treating, candy. Our Catholic faith, on the other hand, would instead remind us that today ...

Oct 14 2022

Chosen to Be His Own / Elegido Como Suyo

Click here for daily readings I think we human beings don’t always acknowledge the effects that everyday life has on us. Some of those effects we’re good at recognizing: I’m exhausted, I’m frustrat...

Sep 30 2022

Our Place / Nuestro Lugar

Click here for daily readings I know a lot of people say this, but my dad was one of the smartest men I have ever known. I will go a step further — he was one of the wisest men I ever knew. When I was a kid monkeyin...

Sep 13 2022

Up Close and Personal / Íntimamente

Click here for daily readings Luke tells us in today’s Gospel that Jesus journeyed to a city called Nain. A couple of interesting facts about Nain: The town is in Galilee, just a bit south of Nazareth, and it’...

Aug 26 2022

We Proclaim Christ Crucified / Proclamamos a Cristo Crucificado

Click here for daily readings My grandson, who is now 4 years old, likes to pretend he is a character from one of his books, movies or TV shows, and the rest of his family gets assigned roles, too. After spending a week i...

Aug 15 2022

All Glory Is His / Toda la Gloria es Suya

Click here for daily readings **This reflection is being posted for Aug 8th. Due to a technical issue, it did not post.** There is a lot going on in today’s readings, from Ezekiel’s vision of the glory of God,...

Jul 16 2022

Justice for the Gentiles / Justicia para los Gentiles

Click here for daily readings There is a long-lingering rumor, one I have never been able to confirm, that my father’s family has Jewish origins, and some ancestor back in time converted to Catholicism, possibly to ...

Jun 26 2022

Beyond Mammon

Click here for daily readings You will remember that just a few days ago, the Gospel for June 18 gave us that famous line from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, “You cannot serve God and mammon.” (Mt 6:24) It&...

Jun 11 2022

Give It to Them Straight

Click here for daily readings Jesus is particularly clear in today’s Gospel from Matthew, a selection from his Sermon on the Mount: Speak the truth. “Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your...

May 15 2022

He Makes All Things New

Click here for daily readings The Scripture readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter this year are jam-packed with so many great things. I feel as though we should celebrate this day and these words joyfully. In fact, I pl...

Apr 26 2022

Catch the Wind

Click here for daily readings Didn’t we just celebrate Easter nine days ago? In fact, our eight-day celebration of Easter just came to a close on Divine Mercy Sunday. How is it that the daily Gospels have returned t...

Apr 17 2022

All About Us

Click here for daily readings It is fairly common for us to hear in popular culture and public conservations someone being told, “It’s not all about you” when they are perceived as being selfish, self-ce...

Mar 26 2022

Have Mercy on Me, a Sinner

Click here for daily readings The tax collector in today’s Gospel prays a prayer very similar to the Jesus Prayer held so close to the hearts of our Orthodox brothers and sisters. As Luke tells us Jesus’...

Feb 25 2022

Two Become One

Click here for daily readings This summer, God willing, my wife and I will celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary. Reflecting on that makes me feel totally inadequate to discuss the topic of today’s Gospel, divorce....