Category Archives: Tami Urcia

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 ...

Jan 30 2020

Let Your Little Light Shine

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel Reading always reminds me of the song “This Little Light of Mine” that many of us learned as children. Jesus seems to be using a bit of sarcasm here. ‘Seriousl...

Jan 20 2020

Mission in Life

Click here for daily readings It seems like I am always harping on my kids to listen to me. “Come down and eat your breakfast!” “Go put on your socks and shoes!” “Where’s the TV remote?”...

Dec 12 2019

Our Lady Unites us to our Lord

Click here for daily readings Today we celebrate the Patroness of all of the Americas. This feast day has become such a great celebration that it can no longer be contained to Mexico alone. Our loving Mother, back in 1531, appea...

Dec 02 2019

A Different Kind of Simplicity

Click here for daily readings Here we are. We’ve made it. We are in a new liturgical year, a new season. Advent! The Lord is coming. He is drawing nigh. Our Savior, the adorable little Christ Child will soon be born. I don...

Nov 15 2019

How Beautiful Is The Originator Of It All!

Click here for daily readings As I write this post, my mind and heart are looking forward to Advent, which starts in just 15 days. I always try to add devotion to this time of preparation for Christ’s birth and make sure t...

Nov 05 2019

We Are One Body

Click here for daily readings I will never forget my first World Youth Day. I really wasn’t old enough to attend at just 13 years of age, but some members of my youth group were going and if Pope John Paul II was going to ...