Sep 8, 2020 | Word Among Us
THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (FEAST) All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said. If there’s one thing the genealogy in Matthew’s Gospel shows us, it’s how much care God took in bringing his plan of salvation to fruition! Just look...
Sep 7, 2020 | Word Among Us
23RD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME (LABOR DAY, USA) They became enraged and discussed together what they might do to Jesus. How is it that Jesus wasn’t afraid to do the things he did, including the healing in today’s Gospel (Luke 6:6 – 11)? Think of the level of...
Sep 5, 2020 | Word Among Us
COMMON OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Learn . . . not to . . . be inflated with pride in favor of one person over and against another. It stood out clearly to Paul, and he wasn’t happy with what he saw: the believers in Corinth were breaking down into...
Sep 4, 2020 | Word Among Us
22ND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME No one pours new wine into old wineskins. It’s said that the game of rugby was born during an 1823 English football (soccer) match, when William Webb Ellis caught the ball in his arms and ran with it. By breaking the “no...
Sep 3, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT GREGORY THE GREAT, POPE AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (MEMORIAL) Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man. Peter and his coworkers fished all night. No doubt they had exhausted all the possibilities of making a catch before they returned to shore...
Sep 2, 2020 | Word Among Us
22ND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Jesus left and went to a deserted place. It seems ironic that the Son of God, sent to love and save every single person on the planet, also made it a habit to avoid people. It had nothing to do with how he felt about us,...
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