Nov 17, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY, RELIGIOUS (MEMORIAL) God did not make them out of existing things. It’s impossible to imagine what it must have been like to be the mother in today’s first reading (2 Maccabees 7:1,20-31). Her seven sons were threatened with death if they...
Nov 16, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT MARGARET OF SCOTLAND (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Zacchaeus . . . was seeking to see who Jesus was. At the high points in Jesus’ ministry, he was surrounded by large crowds of people. We can assume that many had heard about his deeds or listened to his preaching without...
Nov 15, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT ALBERT THE GREAT, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Lord, please let me see. Here is a story from a reader that relates to today’s Gospel reading (Luke 18:35-43): “We stood in the hospital room that dreary November day filled with doubt, fear,...
Nov 15, 2021 | Quote of the Week
“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” -Anonymous
Nov 12, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT JOSAPHAT, BISHOP AND MARTYR (MEMORIAL) As it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building. When Rome was sacked by Germanic tribes in AD 410, its citizens were stunned. They wondered how the “Eternal City”—unconquered...
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