Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Jun 08 2023

Trust in God / Confiar en Dios

Click here for daily readings Today’s Responsorial Psalm says, “Blessed are you who fear the LORD, who walk in his ways! For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork; Blessed shall you be, and favored.”...

Jun 07 2023

To You I Lift Everything / A Ti Lo Levanto Todo

Click here for daily readings Do you ever have a song, phrase, hymn or Psalm get stuck in your mind? Not in an annoying, “I can’t get it out of my mind” way, but in a “caught humming it under your ...

Jun 06 2023

Tomar por Hecho al Señor / Taking the Lord for Granted

Click here for daily readings It’s so easy to take for granted what and who we have in our lives. In today’s First Reading, we read of Tobit, a generous man who sticks to the Law of the Lord, even burying the p...

Jun 05 2023

Stand Up For Your Faith / Defiende Tu Fe

Click here for daily readings Part of my job at my parish is forming and preparing the eighth grade students for the Sacrament of Confirmation. I enjoy the preparation program that we use and I often find myself learning right a...

Jun 04 2023

That All May be Saved / Que Todos Sean Salvos

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel we read perhaps the most quoted verse of Scripture, that “God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish...

Jun 03 2023

Wisdom and Conversation / La Sabiduría y La Conversación

Click here for daily readings “I sought wisdom openly in my prayer, I prayed for her before the temple…” Conversation often seems like a lost art. In order to engage in true dialogue, we have to be will...

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...

Jun 01 2023

Turn That Frown Upside Down / En Lugar de Poner Mala Cara, Sonreir

Click here for daily readings Sometimes your tongue just gets away from you, doesn’t it? I know mine does. I just feel the “need” to complain about that one little thing and before I know it, I’m ranting ...

May 31 2023

Mary and Elizabeth / María e Isabel

Click here for daily readings We read in today’s Scripture, “Blessed are you who believed that the Lord would fulfill what was spoken to you.” The Blessed Mother responded to the invitation by God to be ...

May 30 2023

Oriented to God in a Disoriented World / Orientado Hacia Dios en Este Mundo Desorientado

Click here for daily readings Our society is constantly pushing for each individual to define happiness, love, and success for themselves, often without regard for the effect on their neighbor. What we find at the extreme...

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 ...

May 10 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...

Feb 25 2023

Get Up and Follow Christ / Levántate y Sigue a Cristo

Click here for daily readings “Leaving everything behind, [Levi] got up and followed him.” Jesus invites people individually and personally to follow him. Levi, despite the fact that he was truly an unlikely c...

Feb 21 2023

True Greatness / La Verdadera Grandeza

Click here for daily readings If you wish to be first in the kingdom, the realm of God, you must be last. To be the greatest in the kingdom, you must think of yourself as the least; humility is the key to unlocking heaven...

Feb 20 2023

We of Little Faith / Gente Incrédula

Click here for daily reading Today, we get to see a great display of our Lord’s emotion. Jesus is exasperated at the crowd: “O faithless generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you?&rdq...

Feb 19 2023

Be Holy, as God is Holy / Ser Santos, Como Dios es Santo

Click here for daily readings When my son was a teenager, he had a sweatshirt that said, “Get holy or die tryin.'” On the back of the sweatshirt, it listed over 40 people, from St. Paul to St. Joan of Arc to B...

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 ...

Feb 17 2023

Relying on God / Confiando en Dios

Click here for daily readings The First Reading today from Genesis is right after the great flood. God has just made a covenant with his people and promised never again to wipe out the earth. Noah is trying to bring his p...

Feb 16 2023

The Question of Peter / La Cuestión de Pedro

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel Peter plays two seemingly opposing roles. He is the one who speaks the truth of Chrst’s identity and he is the one who rebukes Christ. It seems to me that this i...

Feb 15 2023

Jesus Took Him By The Hand / Jesús Lo Tomó De La Mano

Click here for daily readings “People brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.” We all need friends like this, who will lead us along the way and beg for the help we need! We are all called to...