Oct 26, 2019 | Word Among Us
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary It may bear fruit in the future. This can be a confusing passage, can’t it? On the one hand, when the people ask Jesus about the unjust and tragic death of some Galileans, he tells them that if they don’t repent, they...
Oct 25, 2019 | Word Among Us
29th Week in Ordinary Time Who will deliver me? For seven chapters, Paul has been laying out one long theological argument: the gospel he preaches is “the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes” (Romans 1:16). In verse after verse,...
Oct 24, 2019 | Word Among Us
Saint Anthony Mary Claret, Bishop (Optional Memorial) You . . . have become slaves of God. Slavery is a terrible evil. It always has been, and it always will be. To be enslaved means to suffer physically and emotionally. Slaves have no freedom;...
Oct 23, 2019 | Word Among Us
Saint John of Capistrano, Priest (Optional Memorial) If the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. It may seem odd that Jesus would compare himself to a thief when preaching about...
Oct 22, 2019 | Word Among Us
Saint John Paul II, Pope (Optional Memorial) How much more did the grace of God and the gracious gift . . . overflow for the many. You don’t have to watch the nightly news to know this: at the core of our being exists a contradiction between good and...
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