My faithfulness . . . shall be with him

Saint Angela Merici, Virgin (Optional Memorial)   My faithfulness . . . shall be with him. (Psalm Response) David was just a shepherd boy when he was anointed by Samuel to be the king of Israel.   It was many years later, when he was thirty years old, when he...

that they might be with him

Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Memorial)   . . . that they might be with him.    Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection was a seventeenth-century lay Carmelite who devoted his life to “practicing” the presence of God.   In other...

because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him

Saint Vincent, Deacon and Martyr (Optional Memorial)   . . . because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him.    Reports of the healings in Capernaum had drawn a crowd—one so large that it threatened to crush Jesus.   Without phones or newspapers,...

Stretch out your hand

2nd Week in Ordinary Time   Stretch out your hand.    Instead of avoiding the religious leaders’ scrutiny, Jesus pushed forward.   He invited the man with the disability to join him in the front of the synagogue and asked his detractors a pointed question: ...

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