Sep 15, 2020 | Word Among Us
OUR LADY OF SORROWS (MEMORIAL) Behold, your mother. Television shows and movies love to portray characters who experience great challenges and tragedies but who find a way to keep going and reach goals that seemed unimaginable. Stories like these can be...
Sep 14, 2020 | Word Among Us
THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS (FEAST) So must the Son of Man be lifted up. In the medical world, vaccines protect us from disease by training our immune system to recognize and attack a virus or bacteria. Vaccines inject antigens from the disease...
Sep 12, 2020 | Word Among Us
THE MOST HOLY NAME OF MARY (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Avoid idolatry. Why was Paul warning the Corinthians about idolatry? It helps to consider the context of this passage (1 Corinthians 10:14 – 22). A controversy existed within the community about...
Sep 11, 2020 | Word Among Us
23RD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Remove the wooden beam from your eye. It might not be obvious, but the seemingly unconnected verses in today’s Gospel are all related. They all have to do with examining our consciences and confessing our sin. Jesus encourages...
Sep 10, 2020 | Word Among Us
23RD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you. Have you ever noticed how many action films focus on a hero overcoming a villain? For most of the movie, the hero suffers at the hands of the villain. Then, in the last act, the...
Sep 9, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT PETER CLAVER, PRIEST (MEMORIAL) Woe to you who are rich. Imagine you are a wealthy Jew listening to this small-town rabbi talk about the difference between being rich and being poor. Your crops are flourishing, your herds are increasing each year,...
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