Feb 5, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT AGATHA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR (MEMORIAL) Do not neglect hospitality. What comes to mind when you think about hospitality? Perhaps it’s fixing a nice dinner for friends or hosting a party for your neighbors. Or perhaps it’s making your home ready for guests to stay...
Feb 4, 2021 | Word Among Us
4TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME You have approached . . . the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven. A great deal has been written about the importance of birth order in a family: the assertive eldest child, the spoiled youngest child, the outgoing middle child. Or...
Feb 3, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT BLAISE, BISHOP AND MARTYR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Strive for . . . that holiness without which no one will see the Lord. Coaches and teachers often use pep talks to motivate their charges and instill in them the determination to work hard. In some ways, this reading...
Feb 2, 2021 | Word Among Us
THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD (FEAST) The Holy Spirit was upon him. One of the Church’s great mystics, St. Bridget of Sweden, once received a revelation from Mary about her Son, Jesus. “There is the same humility in my Son now,” Mary told her, “as there was when he was...
Feb 1, 2021 | Word Among Us
4TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Out of weakness they were made powerful. Let’s look at a couple of the heroes listed in today’s first reading (Hebrews 11:32-40). David was just a boy with some stones, and Gideon was a farmer with the odds stacked against him. Yet David...
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