Jul 16, 2021 | Word Among Us
OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) The Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath. Do you know the very first thing that’s called “holy” in the Bible? It isn’t a place like a temple or a shrine, but a time. It’s the sabbath (Genesis 2:3). God made the sabbath holy so...
Jul 15, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT BONAVENTURE, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (MEMORIAL) This is my name forever. “I am who am”—this is the phrase God used to reveal his name to Moses (Exodus 3:14). The original Hebrew, ehyeh asher ehyeh, is a wordplay that reflects the mysterious nature of...
Jul 14, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT KATERI TEKAKWITHA, VIRGIN (MEMORIAL) Remove the sandals from your feet. Nothing in Moses’ past could have prepared him for what was about to happen. Growing up in Pharaoh’s household, he may have heard tales of Abraham, but none of these stories would have been...
Jul 13, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT HENRY (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Moses fled . . . and stayed in the land of Midian. Every superhero has an origin story. Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider and became Spiderman. Steve Rogers was injected with a secret serum and morphed into Captain...
Jul 12, 2021 | Quote of the Week
“No day is wasted in which I touch another person’s life in any positive, meaningful way. And so it is that I enrich my days by giving something of myself whether through a warm smile, a kind word, a sympathetic ear, a gentle embrace, or a helping...
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