May 19, 2021 | Word Among Us
7TH WEEK OF EASTER Father, . . . that they may be one. Have you ever thought about all the other people who are reading these meditations along with you? The Word Among Us is read in more than one hundred countries and eight languages. That means people all around the...
May 18, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT JOHN I, POPE AND MARTYR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God. Have you ever tried to assemble something really complicated? You keep checking the instructions, and when you run into something that doesn’t make...
May 17, 2021 | Word Among Us
7TH WEEK OF EASTER The Holy Spirit came upon them. “Holy what?” The disciples whom Paul encountered in Ephesus didn’t know there was a Holy Spirit, or even that Jesus was the Messiah. But when Paul shared the good news and prayed with them, their eyes were opened to...
May 15, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT ISIDORE (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) For the Father himself loves you. At every Mass, the priest introduces the Our Father by noting that we can “dare” to offer this prayer because Jesus himself has instructed us to. It is, after all, a little bold to address the...
May 14, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT MATTHIAS, APOSTLE (FEAST) The lot fell upon Matthias. Peter was in a bind. It wasn’t clear who should replace Judas Iscariot as the twelfth apostle. He needed someone who had been with Jesus from the beginning and who could be a “witness to his resurrection”...
May 13, 2021 | Word Among Us
THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD (SOLEMNITY) You will grieve, but your grief will become joy. The apostles were probably confused when Jesus told them that their grief would turn to joy (John 16:20). After all, he had just informed them that he would soon be leaving them...
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