Jul 23, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINT BRIDGET, RELIGIOUS (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Reform your ways and your deeds. Picture someone crying out, “Repent!” at the door of the local Catholic church. “It isn’t Lent,” you might think. “Who is this stranger to tell me to change my life?” The Jews in Jerusalem...
Jul 22, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINT MARY MAGDALENE (FEAST) Mary stayed. Mary Magdalene had shocking news: Jesus’ body was gone. Peter and John ran to the tomb to verify her report and then, discouraged (or afraid), trudged away. But Mary stayed. In her pain and disappointment, she didn’t waver...
Jul 21, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINT LAWRENCE OF BRINDISI, PRIEST AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Why do you speak to the crowd in parables? The lost coin, the lost sheep, the prodigal son, the persistent widow: Jesus’ parables have become so ingrained in our memories that we...
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 | 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...
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