Jun 23, 2021 | Word Among Us
12TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Imagine you’re outside on a sunny day. If you looked up at the sky, would you see any stars other than the sun? It would be impossible. You probably saw them the night before, so you know...
Jun 22, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINTS JOHN FISHER, BISHOP, AND THOMAS MORE, MARTYRS (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Enter through the narrow gate. That narrow gate! It’s tighter than the gap between the do’s and don’ts of the Ten Commandments. So you don’t lie, injure, or kill—and you also have to forgive a...
Jun 21, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT ALOYSIUS GONZAGA, RELIGIOUS (MEMORIAL) Abram journeyed on by stages to the Negeb. If you don’t do much traveling, you may think that distant journeys sound exciting and adventurous. And they can be! But think about people who are constantly traveling, either for...
Jun 19, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT ROMUALD, ABBOT (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Do not worry about your life. It can be fun to think about the future. What kind of job will I get when I graduate from college? How many kids will I have someday? I can’t wait for my vacation! There is nothing wrong with...
Jun 18, 2021 | Word Among Us
11TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME When the poor one called out, the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him. After a busy day in which you “had a million things to do,” you might have come to dinner exclaiming, “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!” Those million...
Jun 17, 2021 | Word Among Us
11TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Do not babble like the pagans. Sharon shared with her confessor that her prayer time wasn’t going well—it felt like she wasn’t really connecting with God. Her confessor responded with two words: “Talk less.” He advised Sharon to shorten her...
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