Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Sep 29 2023

I Saw You / Te Vi

Click here for daily readings I will never forget hearing this reading for the first time, being almost nine months pregnant with my first child. I pondered the significance of this Gospel, and later my husband and I deci...

Sep 28 2023

Preparing the Way / Preparando el Camino

Click here for daily readings Good King Wenceslaus looked out, on the Feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even . . . Can you hear the music? In this, my favorite Christmas carol, the good K...

Sep 27 2023

Get Ready! / ¡Prepárate!

Click here for daily readings I don’t think I ever commented on Ezra before but this one really got me! Can you imagine wanting to go to church but feeling so unworthy? The humility of Ezra is hard for me to imagine. Ho...

Sep 26 2023

We Are Family / Somos una Familia

Click here for daily readings *** This reflection was reposted by Diocesan Archives. *** “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it.” Today’s Gospel offers us a reminder about t...

Sep 25 2023

Cave Darkness / La Oscuridad de una Cueva

Click here for daily readings This past spring our family was on vacation in Colorado. We had never been in a cave before with our kids and decided this would be a fun excursion during our stay. We went to Cave of the Win...

Sep 24 2023

We All Receive More Than We Deserve / Todos Recibimos Más De Lo Que Merecemos

Click here for daily readings The parable of the landowner and the laborers hired to work in his vineyard is, on one level, about abundance. The landowner had a large enough vineyard that he needed to hire laborers repeat...

Sep 23 2023

It’s the Simple Things / Las Cosas Sencillas

Click here for daily readings It was another Sunday morning and we had all five kids in tow. The oldest in his inquisitive preteen stage asking me questions during the whole Mass. My timid one asking me over and over again if we...

Sep 22 2023

Accompanying Jesus / Acompañando a Jesús

Click here for daily readings Christ’s disciples included some women, among them Mary Magdalene—who was the first to announce Jesus’ Resurrection to the Apostles. She would also be the first person to wh...

Sep 21 2023

Equipped / Equipados

Click here for daily readings Have you ever felt God calling you to something that you thought would be impossible for you to do? Something that really made you fearful or would imply that you go well out of your comfort ...

Sep 20 2023

Free To Be Wrong / Libres para Equivocarnos

Click here for daily readings All of creation, all of history, all prophecy, all prayer was leading to and longing for the coming of the Christ. And yet, those who should have recognized the signs and rejoiced in his comi...

Sep 19 2023

A Package Deal / Un Conjunto Necesario

Click here for daily readings Recently, a young Catholic woman who works in a local restaurant shared with me how off-putting it is when other “devout” Catholics come into her place of employment and behave ru...

Sep 18 2023

We Are Not Worthy / No Somos Dignos

Click here for daily readings In today’s first reading, from St. Paul’s letter to Timothy, Paul asks for prayers for everyone, including kings and those in authority, “that we may lead a quiet and tranqu...

Sep 17 2023

Forgive From the Heart / Perdonar de Corazón

Click here for daily readings I’m not sure what I was up to when I was a kid but I recall having frequent cuts and scrapes that required my body to produce scabs. My mom told me not to pick at them to avoid scars bu...

Sep 16 2023

There, But for the Grace of God, Go I / Por la Gracias de Dios, Allí Voy

Click here for daily reading “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Of these I am the foremost. But for that reason I was mercifully treated, so that in me, as the foremost, Christ Jesus might display al...

Sep 15 2023

Our Lady of Sorrows / Nuestra Señora de los Dolores

Click here for daily readings Tucked in between the readings today is an optional sequence, the Stabat Mater. This hymn originates in the thirteenth century and focuses on the sufferings of the Virgin Mary. There are over...

Sep 14 2023

Serpent vs. Savior / Serpiente Contra Salvador

Click here for daily readings It may seem a little surprising on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross to hear the story of the Israelites being bitten by snakes in response to their continued complaining in the desert...

Sep 13 2023

It Won’t Last / No Perdurará

Click here for daily readings Sometimes in life we need to actively work to live in the moment. We can wallow in regrets over the past or become preoccupied with worries about the future. For those times, Jesus reminds u...

Sep 12 2023

What is Our Witness? / ¿Cómo Damos Testimonio?

Click here for daily readings Recently, we realized that as busy as we are in our parishes, in Tom’s Formation, and in the Catholic Schools in our area, we weren’t bringing our faith home. Don’t get me w...

Sep 11 2023

Redemptive Suffering / Sufrimiento Redentor

Click here for daily reading St. Paul’s words today about “filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ” open up to us a deeper perspective on the Christian life. As Christians, we are followe...

Sep 10 2023

Here I am, Lord / Aquí Estoy, Señor

Click here for daily readings “In the twilight of our lives, we will be judged based on how we loved.” – St John of the Cross. How do you treat others? Do you take for granted those closest to you?...