Aug 27, 2024 | Word Among Us
Saint Monica (Memorial) Cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean. It’s early in the morning, and you’re barely awake. You open your kitchen cabinet and reach for the first mug you see. But when you go to pour coffee into it, you...
Aug 26, 2024 | Word Among Us
21st Week in Ordinary Time You lock the Kingdom of heaven before men. You do not enter yourselves. Of all the charges that Jesus makes against the Pharisees and scribes in today’s Gospel, locking up the kingdom of heaven might be the most serious. Jesus had begun his...
Aug 24, 2024 | Word Among Us
Saint Bartholomew, Apostle (Feast) . . . the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. Today we celebrate the apostle Bartholomew. But like several of Jesus’ apostles, we don’t have a lot of historical data about him. Is he the same person as Nathanael from...
Aug 23, 2024 | Word Among Us
Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin (Optional Memorial) I will bring spirit into you, that you may come to life. Ezekiel spoke his famous “dry bones” prophecy during a time when the people of Israel were living in exile in Babylon. The Temple had been destroyed, the city of...
Aug 22, 2024 | Word Among Us
The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Memorial) How is it that you came in here without a wedding garment? Imagine parents busily planning a special dinner for important houseguests. They set their son’s best clothes on his bed so that he can be properly dressed....
Aug 21, 2024 | Word Among Us
Saint Pius X, Pope . . . with no one to look after them or to search for them. Elie Wiesel, the famed activist and Holocaust survivor, once said, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” Wiesel saw this kind of indifference every day during his captivity...
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