Mar 30, 2021 | Word Among Us
TUESDAY OF HOLY WEEK I will make you a light to the nations. The first time this prophecy was proclaimed, the Israelites were living in captivity under the Babylonians. And yet God was promising them a servant who would rescue them, not just from their geographical...
Mar 29, 2021 | Word Among Us
MONDAY OF HOLY WEEK Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out. . . . I have grasped you by the hand. Julian of Norwich lay deathly ill at age thirty when she received a series of mystical visions of Jesus’ passion. In them, Julian beheld...
Mar 27, 2021 | Word Among Us
5TH WEEK OF LENT It is better for you. Like missing a new exit ramp on a familiar highway, the high priest Caiaphas was about to miss the new work God was doing in Jesus. From the start, both he and Jesus had seemed to be on similar footing: they had a deep respect...
Mar 26, 2021 | Word Among Us
5TH WEEK OF LENT Let us denounce him! A woman was serving hot meals to homeless men and women at her downtown parish when one of the men approached the lunch counter. Out of the blue, he asked her, “How’s business going for you these days?” As it turned out, the...
Mar 25, 2021 | Word Among Us
THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD (SOLEMNITY) Mary said, . . . “May it be done to me according to your word.” Easter Sunday will soon be here, which means that we’ve been trying to keep our Lenten resolutions for almost six weeks now. At this point in our Lenten walk, we...
Mar 24, 2021 | Word Among Us
5TH WEEK OF LENT I see four men unfettered and unhurt, walking in the fire, and the fourth looks like a son of God. Do you have any furnaces in your life? Not the literal, helpful kind that warms your home in the winter, but the figurative, destructive kind that...
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