Mar 4, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINT CASIMIR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) This, rather, is the fasting that I wish. “Just do it!” is a popular catchphrase meaning, “Stop thinking about it and take some action.” It could be doing something fun like taking a vacation, or it could be tackling a job you’re...
Mar 3, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINT KATHARINE DREXEL, VIRGIN (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Choose life. Doesn’t it seem a little out of place that here, at the beginning of our Lenten journey, we are reading Moses’ words to the Israelites at the end of their desert journey? But this reading actually...
Mar 2, 2022 | Word Among Us
ASH WEDNESDAY Even now . . . Here we are at the beginning of Lent, and the first words we hear are immediate, even urgent: “Even now, says the Lord, return to me” (Joel 2:12). Joel’s words are a reminder to us that Lent is an entire forty days of “now.” Every day...
Mar 1, 2022 | Word Among Us
8TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Set your hopes completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Haven’t we all had the experience of setting our hopes on something that winds up disappointing us? It might be someone’s unfulfilled promise of a...
Feb 28, 2022 | Word Among Us
8TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME What must I do? Ash Wednesday is only two days away, and many of us are wondering what we “must do” this Lent. Let’s use today’s Gospel account of the conversation between the rich young man and Jesus to help us answer that question. First,...
Feb 25, 2022 | Word Among Us
7TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Is it lawful? Today’s Gospel recounts yet another confrontation between Jesus and some Pharisees who were trying to test him. The religious leaders wanted to make Jesus appear to contradict Moses so they could discredit him. Then, they...
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