Religion with contentment is a great gain

Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gǒn, Priest, Paul Chǒng Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs (Memorial)   Religion with contentment is a great gain.    Are you content?   It’s a surprisingly complicated question. We love Jesus, but sometimes we feel unfulfilled.   We have...

Do you see this woman

Saint Januarius, Bishop and Martyr (Optional Memorial)   Do you see this woman?   Simon saw an outcast—a sinful woman with a bad reputation—crashing his dinner party.   She was definitely not his kind of people.   Didn’t Jesus realize this?   Couldn’t he tell...

taken up in glory

. . . taken up in glory.    24th Week in Ordinary Time   If you were reading an e-mail or letter from a good friend and that person wrote,  “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,” you would almost immediately know that she was referencing the hymn.   We have...

The bearers halted

The bearers halted.   Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Optional Memorial)   It was her only son, and now he was gone, just as her husband had died a few years earlier.   As she proceeded to the burial place, a large crowd of mourners...

Pray, lifting up holy hands

Pray, lifting up holy hands.   Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs (Memorial)   What’s in your hands?   In order to lift up “holy hands” in prayer, you may need to let go of some of the things you’re holding on to.   Because, let’s face it, when...

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