Category Archives: Tami Urcia

Mar 17 2021

There is a Time for Every Season

Click here for daily readings The first signs of spring are a reason for rejoicing in the colder, northern regions. Here in West Michigan, all the snow has melted, the birds are singing as morning dawns, and although the ...

Mar 06 2021

Return To God-His Arms Await You

Click here for daily readings I come from a family of exaggerators. (Did you notice I didn’t say “a long line of exaggerators”? See! I’m working on it! ☺) Anyway, we love to tell stories, loo...

Feb 27 2021

Salvific Suffering

Click here for daily readings Here we are. We’ve made it through the first week and half of Lent already. Have these past ten days been as rough for you as they have for me? UGH! I could share sob stories about coun...

Feb 03 2021

Our Tangible Faith

Click here for daily readings Today is the feast of St. Blaise. Many will find themselves driving to church to seek the traditional blessing of the throats. Two candles tied together with a ribbon somehow give us comfort ...

Jan 12 2021

Childlike Awe

Click here for daily readings As a working mom, I make it a point to spend individual time with each of my kids as often as I can. They take turns having mommy “dates” and treasure their time with me just as m...

Jan 03 2021

Let His Light Shine

Click here for daily readings As I stepped into the office at my new job, it felt familiar yet different. I had worked at parishes before, both as an Administrative Assistant and Director of Family Ministry, yet they wer...

Dec 28 2020

The Holy Innocents and Good St. Joseph

Click here for daily readings Today is my good friend’s birthday. We always used to joke with him about how he was so innocent because he was born on the feast of the Holy Innocents. He is actually a priest now, bu...

Dec 14 2020

The Crèche and the Cross

Click here for daily readings Just when we were getting settled into our new house and things were starting to settle down, another crisis. After so much work, so many hours, so much invested, and it all came crashing do...

Nov 26 2020

An Attitude of Gratitude

Click here for daily readings It’s always interesting to hear the reactions when we have a period of Indian summer during our Michigan autumn. Some are in seventh heaven, pull out the golf clubs, throw some meat on...

Nov 02 2020

Mourning and Rejoicing

Click here for daily readings As I slid into the pew and knelt down to prepare my heart for Mass, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Glancing over to the sill of the stained glass window, I noticed several pict...

Oct 18 2020

Changing Seasons, Changing Hearts

Click here for daily readings This time of year always has me reflecting on change. I watch in awe as day after day the trees turn into a brilliant array of colors, then fall one by one as the brisk winds carry them away...

Oct 15 2020

What The Saints Can Teach Us

Click here for daily readings We made a lot of changes in our family this past year due to “you know what”. As the playgrounds, the library, the bouncy houses and the schools closed, we sought alternate ways ...

Oct 11 2020

Living in the Lord

Click here for daily readings A couple weeks ago I was having a conversation with a coworker about how hard it is sometimes to pull even one positive, uplifting comment from the Sunday Gospel. Some of them tend to be a l...

Sep 21 2020

Follow Me

Click here for daily readings My family just moved to a small town outside the city. My boys now enjoy abundant playtime outside in our expansive backyard, and we sleep better at night without all the cars and motorcycle...

Sep 11 2020

Yearning for Our Heavenly Home

Click here for daily readings Today is September 11th. It has been 19 years since that tragic day that claimed so many lives, that day that will live on in our memories forever. I can’t believe so much time has pass...

Sep 07 2020

Becoming a Fresh Batch of Dough

Click here for daily readings Sometimes we are capable of things we never thought humanly possible. Sometimes we have to push ourselves beyond our limits, beyond our comfort zone and power through. Sometimes feeling tire...

Aug 18 2020

ALL THINGS are Possible…For GOD

Click here for daily readings Our family was recently blessed to take a 5-day vacation in northern Michigan. Although our excursion didn’t take us to the Upper Peninsula, we were far enough north to feel the cool m...

Mar 07 2020

Blessed Are They

Click here for daily readings Today is a very special day for our family. It is the first time we will be able to celebrate a birthday with a new family member we have just met. So many years that seemed lost are now being caugh...

Feb 22 2020

I Shall Not Want

Click here for daily readings Today’s Responsorial is one of the most poetic and well-known Psalms. I remember reciting it as part of an English assignment in high school. “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.&...

Feb 11 2020

May All Our Temples Be Sanctuaries

Click here for daily readings In today’s First Reading, Solomon utters a beautiful, awe-filled prayer of blessing over the temple. He humbly realizes that this new structure cannot contain the God of heaven and earth, but ...