Sundays Readings: ACTS 8:5-8, 14-17, PS 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20, 1 PT 3:15-18, JN 14:15-21 Lecturas Del Dia THE REASON FOR OUR HOPE “What is the reason for your hope?” Imagine somebody coming up to you and asking you that question. Not “What are you hoping for?” or “What are you hoping to do?”…

Sundays Readings: ACTS 6:1-7, PS 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-1, 1 PT 2:4-9, JN 14:1-12 Lecturas Del Dia VOCATION Roman Catholics in the United States spend a good deal of time speaking of “vocation” and the manner in which each of us discerns our vocation for life. In today’s apostolic letter, however, Peter gives us the “cornerstone”…

Sundays Readings: ACTS 2:14A, 36-41, 23: 1-3A, 3B4, 5, 6, 1 PT 2:20B-25, JN 10:1-10 Lecturas del Dia IN NEED OF A SHEPHERD For a while it was very fashionable to own pigs as pets. The publicity surrounding these creatures informed us that they were contrary to their popular image very clean animals, and also…

Sundays Readings: ACTS 2:14, 22-33, PS 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11, 1 PT 1:17-21, LK 24:13-35 Lecturas del Dia GOD’S PLAN Saint Peter speaks to us twice today. In the first reading, we hear an excerpt from his sermon on Pentecost; in the second, part of his first letter. Once a frightened, uneducated fisherman who…

Sunday’s Readings: Acts 2:42-47; Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31 Lecturas del Dia Get Real!Those of us who flatter ourselves that we have a “realistic” view of the world may listen to the first reading today and say, “Get real!” when we hear Luke’s account of the early, Elysian days of the Christian…

Sundays Readings: ACTS 10:34A, 37-43, COL 3:1-4, CF. 1 COR 5:7B-8A, JN 20:1-9 Domingo Lecturas SEEDS OF FAITH There is a brevity, a certain terseness, in the scripture readings for Easter Sunday. Peter’s speech in Acts is built of direct, pointed sentences. Paul’s letters are based on straightforward creed- like statements. Even the Gospel story only…

Sundays Readings: MT 21:1-11, IS 50:4-7, PS 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24, PHIL 2:6-11, MT 26:14—27:66 OR 27:11-54 Domingo Lecturas HOSANNA!“Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; hosanna in the highest” (Matthew 21:9). With these words the Church enters the holiest of weeks, commemorating the passion,…

Sundays Reading: EZ 37:12-14; PS 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; ROM 8:8-11; JN 11:1-45 Domingo Lecturas GIVE GLORY TO GOD On the Fifth Sunday of Lent, just before we begin to enter Holy Week, we are summoned to Bethany. If we had been friends of Mary, Lazarus, and Martha, and found out that Lazarus was gravely…

Sundays Readings: 1 SM 16:1B, 6-7, 10-13A; PS 23: 1-3A, 3B-4, 5, 6; EPH 5:8-14; JN 9:1-41 Domingo Lecturas LIGHT “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light” (Ephesians 5:14). We are at the midpoint of our Lenten journey of conversion. As always, God never gives up on us,…

Sundays Reading: EX 17:3-7; PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9; ROM 5:1-2, 5-8; JN 4:5-42 Domingo Lecturas THIRST Each time today’s Gospel story is read, I can’t help but think of the many television commercials I’ve seen depicting perspiring athletes lifting a beverage to their lips while the scorching sun beats down on them. Our culture has…