Aug 29, 2020 | Word Among Us
THE PASSION OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST (MEMORIAL) Herod liked to listen to him. Try to imagine Herod listening to John the Baptist. John pulled no punches about Herod’s illicit marriage, and Herod could have had John killed immediately. But there was...
Aug 28, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT AUGUSTINE, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (MEMORIAL) Therefore, stay awake. Jesus’ parables were often deceptively simple—easy for a child to grasp, but with depths of meaning and grace that saints and mystics reveled in. Like an onion, each...
Aug 27, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT MONICA (MEMORIAL) He will keep you firm to the end. . . . God is faithful, and by him you were called. A popular children’s book revolves around a young boy’s “terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.” We all have them—days when we try hard to...
Aug 26, 2020 | Word Among Us
21ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME May the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow, would you bother working today? Scholars think this may have been the issue that the Christians in...
Aug 25, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT LOUIS (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean. Have you ever overheard someone being rebuked for some offense and realized you were guilty of the same thing? Jesus’ rebuke was addressed to...
Aug 24, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, APOSTLE (FEAST) Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him. Today we commemorate St. Bartholomew, also known as Nathanael, the central character in today’s Gospel (John 1:45 -51). The story tells us a lot about conversion. Even more,...
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