Dec 26, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINT STEPHEN, THE FIRST MARTYR (FEAST) I see the heavens opened. It sure doesn’t take long, does it? We just celebrated the birth of Jesus yesterday, and today we read about the brutal death of St. Stephen, the first martyr. The Church hardly waits a day to show us...
Dec 24, 2022 | Word Among Us
4TH WEEK OF ADVENT (MASS IN THE MORNING) . . . to guide our feet into the way of peace. We all long to be at peace. Surely Zechariah pondered the promise of peace as he spent nine silent months alone with his thoughts. We know that because when Zechariah’s mouth was...
Dec 23, 2022 | Word Among Us
4TH WEEK OF ADVENT He will sit refining and purifying silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi. Here we are, at the end of Advent, reading from the last book of the Old Testament, about to step into the New Testament. At this critical moment, the prophet Malachi...
Dec 22, 2022 | Word Among Us
4TH WEEK OF ADVENT From this day all generations will call me blessed. Imagine how Mary felt when the angel invited her to be mother of the Messiah! It would have been like a dream come true for a young Hebrew woman. What a privilege to cradle the Promised One in...
Dec 21, 2022 | Word Among Us
4TH WEEK OF ADVENT Your voice is sweet, and you are lovely. Does this passage make you feel as if you’ve stumbled into the middle of a romance novel? The Song of Songs is, in fact, a series of love poems. It doesn’t even mention God by name one time! So you wouldn’t...
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