Feb 29, 2020 | Word Among Us
Saturday after Ash Wednesday Remove from your midst . . . malicious speech. It can be easy to read these words and think they don’t really apply to us. But have you ever said, “You’re not sorry!” when someone is trying to apologize to you? Or “She...
Feb 28, 2020 | Word Among Us
Friday after Ash Wednesday This, rather, is the fasting that I wish. The Israelites had such reverence for the holiness of God that they were careful to follow specific rules when they came to worship in the Temple. Before prayer, for example, they...
Feb 27, 2020 | Word Among Us
Thursday after Ash Wednesday Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live. Do you want Lent to be fruitful this year? Try thinking of it as a journey you’re taking with the disciples as Jesus prepares for his passion, death, and...
Feb 26, 2020 | Word Among Us
Ash Wednesday Return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning. Lent begins each year with this reading from the prophet Joel (Joel 2:12-18). It’s clear that the Church chose this passage so that we too would return to God...
Feb 25, 2020 | Word Among Us
7th Week in Ordinary Time God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Some years ago, a parish priest and one of his deacons had a heated and open disagreement in front of many members of their parish. They eventually worked out their differences,...
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