Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Nov 18 2022

Hanging On Jesus’ Every Word / Atento a Cada Palabra de Jesús

Click here for daily readings “Every day he was teaching…all the people were hanging on his words” (Luke 19: 47-48). Jesus, the Word who became flesh and dwelt among us, is our Teacher and Master. ...

Nov 17 2022

Knowing Christ, Our Peace / Conociéndo a Cristo, Nuestro Paz

Click here for daily readings In the Bible I keep on my desk at work, today’s Gospel passage has the heading “The Lament of Jerusalem.” That makes sense. Throughout the whole passage, Jesus is certainly lamenti...

Nov 16 2022

All We Need, And More / Todo lo Que Necesitamos y Hasta Más

Click here for daily readings Does your parish church have stained glass windows? From the outside, the windows look dark and dull, but when you are inside the Church, they are richly and brilliantly illuminated. That is another...

Nov 15 2022

Holiness / La Santidad

Click here for daily readings Sometimes, Jesus changed his plans. But it seems the only reason he ever changed his plans was out of love. In today’s Gospel, Jesus intends to pass through Jericho, but his loving desi...

Nov 14 2022

Seeing is Believing / Ver es Creer

Click here for daily readings I have a confession to make: I don’t notice things. I’ll have spent half an hour with someone, and they’ll finally ask, “So what do you think of my new glasses?”...

Nov 13 2022

The End Is The Beginning / El Final es el Inicio

Click here for daily readings We’ve come to that point in time, the penultimate (second to last) Sunday of the Liturgical Year, when our readings for the day are all about the end of time. Death, destruction, doom a...

Nov 12 2022

We Can’t Out-Give God / No Podemos Dar Más Que Dios

Click here for daily readings My son was a college student at Ave Maria University. He benefited from a generous scholarship, but was otherwise footing his own bill. Though he participated in the work study program on cam...

Nov 11 2022

Reminding Us / Recordándonos

Click here for daily readings As the season of Advent quickly approaches, I thought I would try to focus my next several reflections on Advent and specifically the incarnation. The First Reading from today perfectly summa...

Nov 10 2022

Where is the Kingdom of Heaven? / ¿Dónde Está el Reino de los Cielos?

Click here for daily readings We live in a “both/and” Church, rather than “either/or”. Jesus is both true God and true man. Mary is both virgin and mother. We believe in Jesus’ death and resu...

Nov 09 2022

God is In Control / Dios Tiene el Control

Click here for daily readings Why is it that the more anxious we are, the more we cling to our vices? As each day brings us closer and closer to my husband’s surgery next week, I find myself getting into the kids&rs...

Nov 08 2022

Order Up! / Ya Está Lista la Orden

Click here for daily readings Today’s readings can be a bit harsh; however, it is all laid out for us. We are essentially given a good examination of conscience in the First Reading, followed by a good reminder of our goal...

Nov 07 2022

Truly Called to Holiness / Verdaderamente Llamados a la Santidad

Click here for daily reading Many of us have probably heard about the universal call to holiness, present throughout the Church’s history and prominently proclaimed by the Second Vatican Council. Our readings remind...

Nov 06 2022

The Joys of the Afterlife / La Alegría de la Vida Eterna

Click here for daily readings “They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise.” I love to think about death. While many find the topi...

Nov 05 2022

Leaning on God and Others / Apoyándnos en Dios y los Demás

Click here for daily readings I remember several moments as a child when something would strike my mom as particularly funny and she would laugh and laugh until she cried. She would try to speak but couldn’t get a s...

Nov 04 2022

Be like the Dishonest Steward…Wait…What? / Ser Como el Mayordomo Deshonesto… Un Momento… ¿Cómo?

Click here for daily readings True to the nature of parables, this parable raises more questions than it answers. In the parable of the Dishonest Steward, the steward of a wealthy man finds out he is about to lose h...

Nov 03 2022

Inviting People In / Invitar a la Gente Entrar

Click here for daily readings What was it about Jesus that drew people near to him? I guess the whole Son of God thing must have helped. But this is something I think about often as someone who wants to evangelize as best...

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...