Jan 13, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINT HILARY, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him. Under Jewish law, a person with leprosy wasn’t supposed to approach another person without a warning that he was coming. Yet the man in today’s Gospel...
Jan 12, 2022 | Word Among Us
1ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME He could not see. If Samuel’s calling were made into a film, an overhead camera might pan across the land of Israel and zoom in on the shrine at Shiloh, where the priest Eli lay asleep in an exterior room. Meanwhile, a voice-over would say...
Jan 11, 2022 | Word Among Us
1ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME I was only pouring out my troubles to the Lord. “Don’t make a scene!” You might whisper this when you are in a quiet public setting and a companion starts displaying too much emotion. That is what the priest Eli said to Hannah, thinking she...
Jan 10, 2022 | Word Among Us
1ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Why do you weep, and. . . refuse to eat? . . . Am I not more to you than ten sons? Family photos often elicit the exclamation “He looks just like his father!” Sometimes the resemblance is evident in a posture, a mannerism, or even in the...
Jan 10, 2022 | Quote of the Week
“If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.” ― Scott Hahn
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