Jul 8, 2020 | Word Among Us
14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME It is time to seek the Lord. Idolatry was everywhere. Israel had begun to place their faith in military strength and foreign alliances instead of trusting in God. At the same time, they began erecting altars and offering sacrifices...
Jul 7, 2020 | Word Among Us
14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest. Be careful what you pray for; you might be called upon to answer your own prayer! Or as one paraphrase renders the verse right after today’s Gospel...
Jul 6, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT MARIA GORETTI, VIRGIN AND MARTYR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) I will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart. Do you feel like you’re in a desert right now? Any number of circumstances might make you feel this way. Perhaps chronic pain is...
Jul 4, 2020 | Word Among Us
INDEPENDENCE DAY (USA) (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? St. Teresa of Ávila once prayed, “God save us from gloomy saints!” Now, she wasn’t saying that saints need to go about with plastered-on...
Jul 3, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT THOMAS, APOSTLE (FEAST) Bring your hand and put it into my side. Amazing. Jesus had already appeared to the other apostles, to Mary Magdalene, and to two disciples traveling on the road to Emmaus. He had shown himself to be alive over and over...
Jul 2, 2020 | Word Among Us
13TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Go, prophesy to my people Israel. The prophet Amos had been warning the people of Israel that they needed to reform their ways, but no one wanted to hear him—especially not the king. So Amaziah the priest told Amos to leave...
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