Dec 9, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT JUAN DIEGO CUAUHTLATOATZIN (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) The hand of the Lord has done this. After fifty years in exile, the time had come for God to lead the people of Judah home. Decades earlier, they had been subjected to a forced march through the rough terrain of...
Dec 8, 2021 | Word Among Us
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word. Today’s Gospel (Luke 1:26-38) reading highlights for us how crucial Mary’s yes was to God’s plan of salvation. It shows how Mary wasn’t...
Dec 7, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT AMBROSE, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (MEMORIAL) Give comfort to my people. In the ancient world, pagans turned to their gods for help and solutions to their problems. But this relationship was essentially a contract with the gods, a desperate attempt to...
Dec 6, 2021 | Quote of the Week
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” ― Mother...
Dec 6, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT NICHOLAS, BISHOP (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Strengthen the hands that are feeble. Jerusalem was under threat of foreign invasion; national morale was at a low point; it even felt to some that God had abandoned them. But Isaiah countered the glum environment by...
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