May 4, 2021 | Word Among Us
5TH WEEK OF EASTER They strengthened the spirits of the disciples and exhorted them to persevere in the faith. “Exhort.” It’s not the most common word used today, but exhortation is central to our calling as disciples of Christ. To exhort someone means to strongly...
May 3, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINTS PHILIP AND JAMES, APOSTLES (FEAST) He appeared to me. We don’t know much about these two apostles, whose feast we celebrate today. We know that Philip came from Bethsaida, the hometown of Peter and Andrew. He appears a few times in the Gospels, such as when he...
May 1, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT JOSEPH THE WORKER (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these. In C. S. Lewis’ novel The Great Divorce, a man finds himself in the afterlife journeying toward heaven. Along the way, he encounters a...
Apr 30, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT PIUS V, POPE (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) I am the way and the truth and the life. Jesus is the way. He is the perfect Son of the Father who did only what the Father told him to do. He didn’t cling to his own vision of the way his life should go. In this, he showed us...
Apr 29, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA, VIRGIN AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (MEMORIAL) Whoever receives the one I send receives me. Sometimes we think of the Church like a relay race: one generation hands the baton to the next by passing on the gospel message. Of course, there is...
Apr 28, 2021 | Word Among Us
SAINT PETER CHANEL, PRIEST AND MARTYR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul. Today’s first reading (Acts 12:24-13:5) describes the beginning of St. Paul’s missionary journeys. For the next fifteen chapters of the Book of Acts, we will follow this...
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