Mar 7, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINTS PERPETUA AND FELICITY, MARTYRS (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Be holy, for I, the Lord, your God, am holy. Doesn’t this command—to be holy as God is holy—sound impossible, and therefore a little frightening? We know that God is holy; we repeat it three times at every...
Mar 5, 2022 | Word Among Us
SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? Imagine yourself at this banquet with Jesus. In fact, imagine that you are one of the “sinners” (Luke 5:30). Jesus sits down and starts asking you about yourself. As you listen to...
Mar 4, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINT CASIMIR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) This, rather, is the fasting that I wish. “Just do it!” is a popular catchphrase meaning, “Stop thinking about it and take some action.” It could be doing something fun like taking a vacation, or it could be tackling a job you’re...
Mar 3, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINT KATHARINE DREXEL, VIRGIN (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Choose life. Doesn’t it seem a little out of place that here, at the beginning of our Lenten journey, we are reading Moses’ words to the Israelites at the end of their desert journey? But this reading actually...
Mar 2, 2022 | Word Among Us
ASH WEDNESDAY Even now . . . Here we are at the beginning of Lent, and the first words we hear are immediate, even urgent: “Even now, says the Lord, return to me” (Joel 2:12). Joel’s words are a reminder to us that Lent is an entire forty days of “now.” Every day...
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