Category Archives: Veronica Alvarado

Oct 19 2019

It Depends on Faith

Click here for daily readings In today’s first reading, we read that God’s chosen people, Abraham’s descendants, were not going to be saved because they followed the law, but because they had faith. Reading thi...

Oct 03 2019

Choosing Joy

Click here for daily readings This morning, my dad called me as I drove into work, and I immediately knew why he was calling. My great uncle, who had been like a grandfather to me, had passed away. As I hung up, I had to pull ov...

Aug 19 2019

Fulfilled Hearts

Click here for daily readings As a young adult, I recognize myself in the young man that we read about in today’s Gospel. We want to know the rules, the step-by-step instructions, the exact path to walk down for perfectio...

Aug 05 2019

In Our Pain

Click here for daily readings Have you ever watched a movie or read a book, then learned a fact about it that changes everything? That was me today. I’ve always heard Jesus’ miracle of the fish and the loaves, but ...

Jul 17 2019

Growing Up

Click here for daily readings Today is my birthday and I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to wish for when I blow out my candles. I began to run through the list of things I wanted but realized that there’s ...

Jul 05 2019

He Desires Mercy

Click here for daily readings A couple of weeks ago, I shared my story of a homeless man asking for change and how I was embarrassed for wanting to give him less than a dollar. I thought I was golden for having realized that I ...

Jun 19 2019

Called Out

Click here for daily readings Y’all, after going over today’s readings, I don’t know if I’ve ever felt more called out in my life. Yesterday, I was backing out of a parking space of my church when a hom...

Jun 07 2019

Losing Control

Click here for daily readings Last weekend, I was driving on the highway when a single line of a random, shuffled playlist song caught my attention. The female voice sang, “Yes, I know I’ve lost what you call contro...

May 23 2019

Joy

Click here for daily readings When I was in elementary school, I was a part of a Catholic small group called K4J, otherwise known as Kids for Jesus. Each meeting, we would go through a specific virtue or spiritual gift’s p...

May 16 2019

Foundations

Click here for daily readings As humans, we like to categorize everything we can, right down to our life stages. There are the categories of childhood and adulthood, but even within these two categories, we break them down even ...

May 06 2019

It’s Never Enough

Click here for daily readings Nearly three years ago, I was preparing to go to my first World Youth Day pilgrimage. I was excited but saw it more as a vacation than anything. At that point, I had begun losing faith and was barg...

Apr 17 2019

Be Better

Click here for daily readings We are in the middle of Holy Week, people! Less than a week until Easter! Less than a week until we commemorate the greatest gift of all! Is your soul refreshed? Are your hopes and desires getting y...

Apr 09 2019

Be Strong and Vulnerable

Click here for daily readings This past week, I received some emails from readers that thanked me for sharing with y’all. I thanked them kindly and kind of brushed it off at first, but as I got a couple more, I realized ju...

Apr 02 2019

Do You Want to be Well?

Click here for daily readings In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus asks a man who has been ill for 38 years if he wants to be well. Your initial reaction to this might be, “Well, obviously. Who doesn’t want to be ...

Mar 27 2019

Faith Bubble

Click here for daily readings I was brought up in a typical Catholic home. My grandparents were Catholic, all my cousins were Catholic, my mother has been a catechist for 12 years, my father is a Grand Knight in the Knights of ...

Mar 21 2019

Community

Click here for daily readings Last week, I joined a Lenten small group. There’s only five of us and we’re reading “Give Up Worry for Lent! 40 Days to Finding Peace in Christ” by Gary Zimak. As someone wi...

Mar 09 2019

Remembering the Path

Click here for daily readings “Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.” This line, taken from today’s Responsorial Psalm, is something that I have been praying every day since the beginning of...

Feb 26 2019

Stress and Peace

Click here for daily readings The older I get, the harder it is to put my trust in God. At the young age of 24, my life is just starting to become increasingly… real. Any young adult knows how I feel. There’s the ne...

Feb 07 2019

Go to Him

Click here for daily readings I found something extremely interesting in today’s Gospel. The first line says that Jesus summoned his disciples and then sent them out. A lot of the time, we may feel that we are being asked ...

Jan 08 2019

It’ in the Air

Click here for daily readings One of my favorite phrases to hear is, “Love is in the air.” The reason I love it so much is because of today’s first reading: “Beloved, let us love one another, because love...