Father Diaz's Weekly Blog

“Did you wash your hands?”A common question posed to children when they come to dinner or finish using the bathroom….

“That is hard.”This Sunday we hear two messages each that seem hard to take in at our first hearing. The…

“Are you full yet?”A good host wants to make sure that their guests have enough to eat and drink. As…

“Nothing I do matters to anyone…”Sometimes we can empathize with Elijah’s words when he says to the Lord: “’This is…

Gratitude and blessings. In life we often enjoy when people throw parties for us or give us presents.When people help…

“There’s nothing to eat!” How many times do teenagers open the refrigerator and after looking at what is inside say…

Does anybody know where we are going?In the first reading from this Sunday we hear the prophet Jeremiah warn “Woe…

I don’t want to hear about it…All too often, when people come to us and it looks like they are…

Consider that the crowd was pressing upon Jesus but the disciples couldn’t tell a press from a touch when the woman…

John Steinbeck wrote about Jim Casy and Tom Joad traveling to California looking for a better life in a land…

We get the word automatic from the Greek mentioned in our Gospel from Mark 4:28, “Of its own accord the…