Category Archives: Sr. Kathryn

Nov 17 2024

Set Your Hearts on Christ / Fijar el Corazón en Cristo

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel passage is part of a conversation between Jesus and the apostles in the Temple. It began with the apostles walking through the city of Jerusalem and being amazed at the b...

Nov 06 2024

A One-Way Road to His Heart / El Camino Directo a Su Corazón

Click here for daily readings I remember watching a skit that humorously demonstrated how our crosses were perfectly chosen by God for us. The skit made the point that if our crosses were cut down to a more “accepta...

Oct 24 2024

Jesus Is a Fire on This Earth / Jesús es Fuego en Esta Tierra

Click here for daily readings Most of us are afraid of fire, whether it be the fire that destructively burns on this earth, or the fire that burns eternally. In this passage, however, Jesus was not speaking about it in th...

Oct 14 2024

Am I Serving God? / ¿Estoy Sirviendo a Dios?

Click here for daily readings This Gospel passage hints at one question we should all be asking ourselves: Am I serving God? This question guided Pope Saint John Paul II, as can be seen through his meditations and reflect...

Sep 21 2024

Risking Everything to Follow Jesus / Arriesgando Todo para Seguir a Jesús

Click here for daily readings Matthew was a finance guy. Not only did he extort money from his neighbors while collecting taxes, he also wrapped his whole life around the security money can bring. How many advertisements ...

Sep 01 2024

Blessed Are the Pure of Heart / Bienaventurados los Puros de Corazón

Click here for daily readings The heart is “the depths of one’s being, where the person decides for or against God” (CCC 368). In today’s Gospel passage, Jesus defines purity of heart by telling us...

Aug 14 2024

We Belong to Each Other / Somos el Uno para el Otro

Click here for daily readings Every time I watch the altar server carrying the cross and leading the procession to the altar while the entrance hymn is sung, I feel slightly overwhelmed. We are being gathered together by ...

Aug 02 2024

Jesus, the Glory of the Human Race / Jesús, la Gloria de la Raza Humana

Click here for daily readings When you reach a certain age you worry about things like your legacy, what you have done with your life and what would have happened if you had made different choices. There is something insi...

Jul 26 2024

How to Be Good Soil / Cómo Ser Tierra Fértil

Click here for daily readings Jesus is the divine Sower who sows the seed of his word in the community of followers that he calls apart from the world. The seed takes root in us when we hear the word of God. To hear, to r...

Jul 18 2024

Will You Come to Me? / ¿Vendrás a Mí?

Click here for daily readings “Come to me.” The words of a lover. Powerless words. Vulnerable words. The one who says them must wait upon the response of the one to whom they are addressed. “Will you com...

Jun 29 2024

The Church Is a Divine Creation / La Iglesia es un Establecimiento Divino

Click here for daily readings There is something truly remarkable about this passage for our understanding of the Church. The episode recounted in this passage of the Gospel is situated right after Jesus’ admonishme...

Jun 15 2024

The Words That Changed My Life / Las Palabras que Cambiaron mi Vida

Click here for daily readings The single most important shift I have experienced in my relationship with God, the deepest transformation I have received in my prayer life, is connected to today’s Gospel passage&hell...

May 23 2024

A Bold Prayer / Una Oración Audaz

Click here for daily readings How would you live differently if you knew the full glory that awaits you in heaven? I think we really need to stop and sit with that question, more so perhaps than our ancestors in the faith...

May 05 2024

The Power of Love / El Poder del Amor

Click here for daily readings Why is it that we are “commanded” to love? Wouldn’t it be better if we were invited to love others? Isn’t it true that no one can make us love another person? And if w...

Apr 22 2024

Do You Recognize Jesus When He Calls Your Name? / ¿Reconoces a Jesús Cuando te Llama por tu Nombre?

Click here for daily readings “My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.” In the time of Jesus, the families of a village often kept t...

Apr 03 2024

We Need to be Loved More Than Heard / Necesitamos Ser Amados Más Que Escuchados

Click here for daily readings “‘Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.’ So [Jesus] went in to stay with them. And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he to...

Mar 17 2024

The Dynamic of the Grain of Wheat / La Dinámica del Grano de Trigo

Click here for daily readings Have you ever noticed how the Scriptures are filled with people just like ourselves whose lives take unexpected turns and then blossom in ways that can only be described as flourishing in and...

Mar 09 2024

The True Meaning of Blessing / El Verdadero Significado de la Bendición

Click here for daily readings Humility, that misunderstood virtue, saves us from the theatrical pretenses to which all of us are drawn. Who hasn’t boasted occasionally of something they’ve accomplished? Who ha...

Mar 04 2024

Welcoming the Outsider / Dar la Bienvenida al Forastero

Click here for daily readings Each one of us has probably passed judgment on others in one way or another. When we all gather our judgments together, we create a culture where some people are in and others are out. ...

Feb 29 2024

God’s Lavish Ways / Las Maneras Abundantes de Dios

Click here for daily readings When God does things, he does them lavishly. The book of Genesis opens with the stunning array of all creation being poured forth from God’s hands in his limitless love. And here, in th...