Nov 5, 2021 | Word Among Us
31ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME The master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. Were you startled when you read this verse? Why would the master commend this steward? He’d already been chastised for squandering his master’s property. And now he was doing...
Nov 4, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO, BISHOP (MEMORIAL) The tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus. Why were the “tax collectors and sinners” drawing near to Jesus? What was it about this rabbi that so attracted them? Clearly, they saw something...
Nov 3, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES, RELIGIOUS (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) You shall love your neighbor as yourself. This command from God, often called the second greatest commandment, can seem impossible, can’t it? Love every neighbor? How can we find the ability to do something so...
Nov 2, 2021 | Word Among Us
THE COMMEMORATION OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED I will not reject anyone who comes to me. On the feast of All Souls, we remember our “faithful departed.” This term can sound so remote and impersonal. But the death of a loved one is anything but remote. These are our...
Nov 1, 2021 | Word Among Us
ALL SAINTS (SOLEMNITY) I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count. Throughout its history, the Church has canonized more than ten thousand people. But for every canonized saint we know about, there are thousands more unknown saints who have never...
Oct 29, 2021 | Word Among Us
30TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME He took the man and . . . healed him. The man whom Jesus healed had dropsy. Nowadays, the word “edema” is used, but both words refer to a buildup of fluid in the body that causes limbs to swell, joints to stiffen, and movement to be...
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