Oct 7, 2021 | Word Among Us
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY (MEMORIAL) . . . a friend to whom he goes at midnight. Would you feel comfortable awakening someone at midnight to ask for a favor? You’d probably do it only with a close friend—someone who cares about you so much that your problem naturally...
Oct 6, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT BRUNO, PRIEST (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry. Jonah thought he had every reason to be angry with the Lord. After a perilous trip to Nineveh to announce God’s message, Jonah couldn’t understand why God had decided not to carry...
Oct 5, 2021 | Word Among Us
BLESSED FRANCIS XAVIER SEELOS, PRIEST (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) The people of Nineveh believed God. The prophet Nahum called Nineveh “the bloody city, all lies, Full of plunder . . . A multitude of slain, a mass of corpses” (3:1, 3). The primary task of its king was to...
Oct 4, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI (MEMORIAL) You have answered correctly, do this and you will live. You almost wish that this scholar of the law would have stopped while he was ahead. He had correctly identified the greatest commandments—love God with your whole being and...
Oct 2, 2021 | Word Among Us
THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGELS (MEMORIAL) Their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father. Today we celebrate someone who has been by your side since the day you were born. Someone who has watched you grow, say your first words, and take your first...
Oct 1, 2021 | Word Among Us
ST. THÉRÈSE OF THE CHILD JESUS, VIRGIN AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (MEMORIAL) We did not heed the voice of the Lord. Today’s passage is part of a letter that the prophet Baruch, one of the exiles in Babylon, wrote to the remnant of Israelites still living in Jerusalem....
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