Sep 24, 2021 | Word Among Us
25TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Greater will be the future glory of this house than the former. Imagine how encouraged Zerubbabel and his companions must have been when they heard this prophetic word. After forty years of exile in Babylon, they had returned to a Jerusalem...
Sep 23, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT PIUS OF PIETRELCINA (PADRE PIO), PRIEST (MEMORIAL) He was greatly perplexed. Jesus had opened blind eyes, unstopped deaf ears, and mended lame legs. By doing all of this, he had fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy about the coming Messiah (35:4-6). Herod, a Jew, would...
Sep 22, 2021 | Word Among Us
25TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME He has given us new life to raise again the house of our God and restore its ruins. Ezra and the exiles had finally returned home to Jerusalem. But their city lay in ruins, and the Temple had been ransacked. Nehemiah had begun to rebuild the...
Sep 21, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT MATTHEW, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST (FEAST) Follow me. Years of scolding from angry or self-righteous neighbors could not move Matthew out of his Roman tax office. But then with just one word from Jesus, this tax collector left it all behind. Why such a drastic...
Sep 20, 2021 | Quote of the Week
“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” -Anonymous
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