Tom Llamas, NBC Anchor and Catholic

For several years now, The New York Times has devoted space in its Sunday paper to profiling notable New Yorkers (some famous, some not) and asking them how they spend their Sundays. Most go out for brunch, relax on a rooftop, hit the beach, take in a movie or tend their garden.

It’s rare to read about anyone doing anything as radical as going to Mass.

But this Sunday was an exception, as the Times interviewed NBC News anchor Tom Llamas:

Five nights a week, Tom Llamas is one of the faces of election coverage for NBC News NOW.

But on Sundays, he is about 40 minutes north of NBC’s Manhattan studios working out and hitting baseballs with his son at home in Westchester County, N.Y.

“In New York City with kids, you have to get up and go somewhere — whether it’s a car ride, or an Uber, or a taxi — to do anything,” said Mr. Llamas, 45, who moved with his young family to a seven-bedroom home in Purchase in 2022 after five years in a three-bedroom apartment in Midtown East. “As the kids were getting older, the process was starting to weigh on us.”

Mr. Llamas, who commutes to NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza by either car or Metro-North train, lives with his wife, Jennifer Llamas, 43; two daughters, Malena, 11, and Juju, 8; and a son, Tomas, 7.

PRECIOUS REST Sunday is the only day I’m allowed to sleep in, because the kids have so many sports and events on Saturdays. It’s amazing if I can sleep until 8 a.m. When I’m on the “Today” show during the week, I’m up at 4:45 a.m. Otherwise, I’m usually in between noon and 1 p.m.

OLD-SCHOOL NEWS I’ll make coffee and start reading the paper. That’s The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post. I’ll also look at NBCNews.com, Drudge Report, The Daily Mail, RealClearPolitics. I’ll also light a fire in the morning; I love that there’s space to have fireplaces. Small creature comforts go a long way, especially when you have children.

ORDER UP My wife and daughter Juju will start making breakfast, usually pancakes or omelets. Juju loves to cook — and she’s pretty good at it, too!

FAMILY MASS My wife and I are both Catholic, and our faith is a big part of our life. We go to church at Resurrection in Rye and will try to hit the 8:30 a.m. Mass, but if we’re dragging a little, there are a couple of other opportunities at 11:15 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. When my kids aren’t in sports, we’re going to the 5 p.m. weekend Masses on Saturdays, which are good for families because they’re a little quicker.

There’s more. Read it all.

Meanwhile, surfing the back alleys of Google and YouTube, I found this brief clip from 2020: a video message to the senior class of Benen Jesuit Prep School in Miami (Llamas is an alumnus, class of ’97), in which he invokes both faith and St. Ignatius: