Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Nov 02 2022

Passing through Fire / Pasando por el Fuego

Click here for daily reading All Souls’ Day is a wonderful opportunity to pray for the dead, uniting our personal intentions to the prayers of the Mass. The month of November also gives us the opportunity for indulg...

Nov 01 2022

Our Heavenly Reward / Nuestra Recompensa Celestial

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus gives us the Beatitudes. These are words we all know well. But given our political climate today and the persecution that many have faced because of the...

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 30 2022

Our Patient Father / Nuestro Padre Paciente

Click here for daily readings People love to make fun of the songs we sang at church in the early 1970s, but I was a little girl then and I remember many of them fondly. Today’s Gospel took me back to that time inst...

Oct 29 2022

A Seat at the Table / Un Asiento en la Mesa

Click here for daily readings I grew up with a fairly large extended family. If you combine both my mom and dad’s sides, I have about 30 cousins. As one of the oldest cousins, I know a thing or two about jockeying f...

Oct 28 2022

Turn to the Lord / Volver al Señor

Click here for daily reading On this feast of two apostles, Sts. Simon and Jude, we’re reminded of how Jesus chose the Twelve. “Jesus went up to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God&rd...

Oct 27 2022

Where Do You Keep Your Armor? / ¿Dónde Guardas tu Armadura?

Click here for daily readings It is no secret that we live in trying times. How could things like this happen in our world and our country and at such a fast pace? We wake up in the morning hoping that God will snap his finge...

Oct 26 2022

Be an Active Participant / Ser un Participante Activo

Click here for daily readings Coasting through life can be such a temptation! Modern conveniences make it even easier: I can donate to my son’s school by shopping online using the coupon code my computer saved. I c...

Oct 25 2022

The Kingdom of God / El Reino de Dios

Click here for daily readings The Gospel reading today is only four lines. The parable about the kingdom of God in Luke 13:18-21 is a favorite of mine, among others, as images of a mustard seed immediately come to mind. W...

Oct 24 2022

Be Imitators of God / Ser Imitadores de Dios

Click here for daily readings Not only are we created in the image and likeness of God, we are to be imitators of Him who created us. God is love. Love is a creative force. Love cannot be withheld and turned inward....

Oct 23 2022

Freedom in Humility / La Libertad en la Humildad

Click here for daily readings When looking up the definition of humility, I came across two different responses. It was first defined as a modest or low view of one’s own importance; humbleness. The second def...

Oct 22 2022

Fruitless Fruit Trees / Árboles Frutales Sin Frutos

Click here for daily readings Some people in Jesus’ time believed that there was a direct correlation between a person’s sins and their sufferings – sick people must surely have sinned and were receiving...

Oct 21 2022

Accepting Jesus Changes Us Forever / Aceptar a Jesús nos Cambia Para Siempre

Click here for daily readings In the seventh grade, I did my first large paper on the weather. To this day I can recall how to forecast the weather from simple observation. Before the days when we could switch on the morn...

Oct 20 2022

Have I Come to Establish Peace on the Earth? / ¿He Venido a Establecer la Paz en la Tierra?

Click here for daily readings Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? The angels sang at Jesus’ birth: “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests&rd...

Oct 19 2022

Jesus is Coming, Look Busy / Ya Viene Jesús, Luzca Ocupado

Click here for daily readings Jesus is coming but we do not know when. And our goal as Christians is not to simply “look busy” but to be about the work that is ours. Many years ago I heard the acronym for &lsq...

Oct 18 2022

Divine Healing / La Sanación Divina

Click here for daily readings I recently got the chance to meet an incredible Healing Ministry that is doing the Lord’s work in my diocese. If you are unfamiliar with prayer teams like this, the focus is on the Holy...

Oct 17 2022

How Can We Bless Others with Our Riches? / ¿Como Podemos Bendecir a Otros con Nuestros Dones?y Hagan Discípulos

Click here for daily readings In Luke’s gospel today, we hear that Christ told the crowd of people listening to Him: “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not...

Oct 16 2022

Perseverance and Closeness to the Lord / La Perseverancia y la Cercanía con el Señor

Click here for daily readings For anyone who has young children at home, they probably know how much easier it is to “give in” when being repeatedly asked for something. Today’s parable and passage from ...

Oct 15 2022

Denied / Negado

Click here for daily readings Being denied before the angels of God, being unforgiven – these are serious matters. Jesus tells his disciples that those who deny him before others will be denied before the angels of ...

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...