Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Oct 06 2023

Examination of Conscience / Examen de Conciencia

Click here for daily readings When I was in high school, my faith formation classes held scheduled confessions once a semester. While we were waiting for our turn, we would use the examination of conscience paper as a fan more o...

Oct 05 2023

Step Up to the Plate / Anímate a Servir

Click here for daily readings “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” This line from today’s Gospel perfectly sums up one of th...

Oct 04 2023

Follow Me / Ven y Sígueme

Click here for daily readings What does it mean to be successful in this life? Is it having riches, a successful career, or outstanding accomplishments? In my family, after my parents experienced a deepening of their Cath...

Oct 03 2023

Let Me Get My Hammer / Déjame Traer Mi Martillo

Click here for daily readings They say, “When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” I think we see this mentality in James and John in today’s Gospel. Jesus and the ...

Oct 02 2023

Memorial of the Guardian Angels / Memorial de los Ángeles de la Guarda

Click here for daily readings Today we celebrate the Memorial of our Guardian Angels. Every human being has a guardian angel. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “From infancy to death human life is surroun...

Oct 01 2023

Life Isn’t Fair / La vida no es justa

Click here for daily readings Life isn’t fair! How many times have we heard or said this phrase in our lifetime? From a young age we think that the world isn’t fair and oftentimes, the authority figures in our...

Sep 30 2023

A Wall of Fire / Un Muro de Fuego

Click here for daily readings “But I will be for her an encircling wall of fire, says the LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst.” The readings today remind us clearly who Jesus is and who sent him. In the...

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...