Sep 13, 2023 | Word Among Us
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (MEMORIAL) Seek what is above. “Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.” So remarked the physician-poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. He was taking to task those Christians who spend so...
Sep 12, 2023 | Word Among Us
THE MOST HOLY NAME OF MARY He called his disciples to himself. Jesus must have been tired that evening as he “departed to the mountain to pray” (Luke 6:12). Yet he spent the whole night in prayer! Then, instead of taking a nap the next morning, Jesus chose his twelve...
Sep 11, 2023 | Word Among Us
23RD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME They became enraged and discussed together what they might do to Jesus. While no Pharisees are directly implicated in Jesus’ crucifixion by the Romans, it is clear that some of them hated Jesus and wanted to see him killed. They saw him as...
Sep 11, 2023 | Quote of the Week
“The Cross means there is no shipwreck without hope, there is no dark without dawn, nor storm without heaven.” ― Pope John Paul II
Sep 8, 2023 | Word Among Us
THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (FEAST) . . . Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Ah, a good genealogy—don’t we just love to read one of those? Actually, our natural reaction may be just the opposite as we look at the paragraphs of names of...
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