Entries by Karla Basulto

6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Perhaps it wasn’t only our generation that bought into the lie that blessedness means material wealth and the absence of suffering? Jeremiah, the Psalmist and Jesus all go to considerable lengths to remind us the experience of blessing may coexist with poverty, pain, rejection, misunderstanding or longing. They even go so far as to suggest […]

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

By our baptism we are prophets, consecrated and appointed by the Lord to go out to the nations and speak His word, faithfully as He commands. Before we were formed in the womb, we were known by God. God has a plan for you, a destiny. Embrace it.

3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

“The Old Testament prepares for the New and the New Testament fulfills the Old; the two shed light on each other; both are true Word of God” (CCC 140). When Ezra opened the book, the entire congregation stood up, praised God, lifted their hands in worship, then prostrated themselves before God, thus recognizing His presence […]