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...
Jul 1, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT JUNÍPERO SERRA, PRIEST (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Let justice surge like water. Paris in the 1830s was rife with poverty and homelessness, but through the work of one young man, justice and kindness began to “surge like water” through the city (Amos...
Jun 30, 2020 | Word Among Us
THE FIRST MARTYRS OF THE HOLY ROMAN CHURCH (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Prepare to meet your God, O Israel What an ominous message! Of course, the people weren’t “meeting their God” for the first time—they had centuries of oral history of his covenant with them...
Jun 29, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINTS PETER AND PAUL, APOSTLES (SOLEMNITY) Through me the proclamation might be completed. Peter and Paul encountered Jesus in very different ways. Peter was fishing, and Paul was persecuting Christians. But both encounters were so powerful that...
Jun 27, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed. These words are familiar to us, not just because they are in today’s...
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