Jul 15, 2024 | Word Among Us
ST. BONAVENTURE, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (MEMORIAL) Make justice your aim. Speaking through the prophet Isaiah around 740 BC, God confronted the people of Jerusalem. He called them “princes of Sodom” and branded their Temple sacrifices as “worthless” and...
Jul 13, 2024 | Word Among Us
SAINT HENRY (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Here I am . . . ; send me! “God doesn’t call the qualified; he qualifies the called.” You’ve probably heard this expression before, and it carries plenty of biblical precedent. Many of our heroes and heroines of the faith certainly...
Jul 12, 2024 | Word Among Us
14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME We shall say no more, “Our god,” to the work of our hands. Israel was a small prosperous nation, an unlikely beacon of God’s faithfulness and provision in a region rampant with idolatry. The people experienced God’s care in very tangible,...
Jul 11, 2024 | Word Among Us
SAINT BENEDICT, ABBOT (MEMORIAL) The Kingdom of heaven is at hand. In the ancient world, a conquering ruler would send out emissaries to neighboring cities that he wanted to absorb into his territory. These heralds would announce the incoming kingdom and proclaim the...
Jul 10, 2024 | Word Among Us
14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Break up for yourselves a new field, for it is time to seek the Lord. Intrigues in the royal court, terrifying threats from foreign enemies, shifting diplomatic alliances, the worship of false gods—Hosea painted a picture of life in the...
Jul 9, 2024 | Word Among Us
SAINT AUGUSTINE ZHAO RONG, PRIEST, AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS Ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest. Jesus was filled with compassion for his people, who “were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd” (Matthew 9:36). He wanted...
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