Jul 20, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINT APOLLINARIS, BISHOP AND MARTYR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) A sower went out to sow. It can be easy to skip over this sentence since it is at the beginning of Jesus’ parable. But in these few simple words, Jesus gives us a glimpse of his Father as a God who sows...
Jul 19, 2022 | Word Among Us
16TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother. Jesus was a “family man”—he loved and honored his parents and his relatives. So when his family arrived on the scene, we might have expected him to interrupt...
Jul 18, 2022 | Quote of the Week
“True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their...
Jul 18, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINT CAMILLUS DE LELLIS, PRIEST (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) You have been told . . . what the Lord requires of you. The prophet Micah, writing in the eighth century BC, was able to boil down all of God’s commandments to three simple precepts: “To do the right and to love...
Jul 16, 2022 | Word Among Us
OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) In his name the Gentiles will hope. Jesus had made a big name for himself—and not just among the people of Israel. It was so big that Matthew described it by quoting the prophet Isaiah’s encompassing promise that God’s...
Subscribe To Father Maurice's Newsletter
Join our mailing list to receive the latest news, inspirational blogs, and updates from Father Maurice
You have Successfully Subscribed!