Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Jun 13 2023

Salt and Light / Sal y Luz

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel we are reminded of our role as Christians in the world and of our mission. Christ tells us that we are “the salt of the earth” and that we are to be the li...

Jun 12 2023

An Attitude of the Beatitudes / Una Actitud de las Bienaventuranzas

Click here for daily readings When my son was in Catholic kindergarten, he learned his letters and Bible verses. He enjoyed word games and figuring out which letter made each sound. Since his first name starts with a &ldq...

Jun 11 2023

The Eucharist: Flesh and Blood / La Eucaristía: Cuerpo y Sangre

Click here for daily readings Is your parish celebrating this Solemnity with a Corpus Christi Procession? This traditional way of honoring the Eucharist goes back to the 1300’s, and is a beautiful public proclamatio...

Jun 10 2023

The Present Moment / El Momento Presente

Click here for daily readings Our family was blessed to live a few hours from my husband’s grandmother for several years before she passed away. In that time, she became another grandmother to me and I cherish the m...

Jun 09 2023

A Question About Jesus / Una Pregunta Acerca de Jesús

Click here for daily readings How can Jesus be God and man, divine and human, Lord of heaven and earth? Is the Messiah capable of being both true God and true man? In Mark’s Gospel, Jesus begins to enlighten the wor...

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...