Remove the sandals from your feet.

SAINT KATERI TEKAKWITHA, VIRGIN (MEMORIAL) Remove the sandals from your feet.  Nothing in Moses’ past could have prepared him for what was about to happen. Growing up in Pharaoh’s household, he may have heard tales of Abraham, but none of these stories would have been...

Moses fled . . . and stayed in the land of Midian.

SAINT HENRY (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Moses fled . . . and stayed in the land of Midian.  Every superhero has an origin story. Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider and became Spiderman. Steve Rogers was injected with a secret serum and morphed into Captain...

Do not think that I have come to bring peace.

15TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Do not think that I have come to bring peace. Doesn’t Jesus want us to get along? That’s a fair question, given today’s Gospel. His words can sound so harsh. Does he really want us to become enemies with people in our own household? No. But...

He reassured them.

COMMON OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY He reassured them. Joseph’s brothers were afraid. Now that their father, Jacob, had died, would Joseph exact revenge for the way they had mistreated and betrayed him? They were so worried that they probably even lied when they said...

I am God. . . . Do not be afraid.

SAINT AUGUSTINE ZHAO RONG, PRIEST, AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) I am God. . . . Do not be afraid. It must not have been easy for Jacob. Long before he had any children, he had heard God promise, “In you and your descendants all the families of the earth...

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