Jan 16, 2020 | Word Among Us
1st Week in Ordinary Time Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, [and] touched the leper. In Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical The Phantom of the Opera, the title character is marred both physically and emotionally. This poor soul has suffered a...
Jan 15, 2020 | Word Among Us
1st Week in Ordinary Time Speak, for your servant is listening. Yesterday, we saw how Eli mistook Hannah’s prayer for a child as the babbling of a drunken woman. Today, we see Eli mistaking young Samuel’s story of voices in the dark for nothing more...
Jan 14, 2020 | Word Among Us
1st Week in Ordinary Time I was only pouring out my troubles to the Lord. Communication is vital to good relationships, but we don’t tend to think about communication when it comes to our faith. That’s too bad, because Christianity is all about...
Jan 13, 2020 | Word Among Us
Saint Hilary, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Optional Memorial) and First Week in Ordinary Time They left their father . . . and followed him. Do you remember your teenage years, when you used to be able to sleep through a blaring alarm clock? But...
Jan 11, 2020 | Word Among Us
Christmas Weekday We are in the one who is true, . . . Jesus Christ. John was addressing a community that was going through a difficult time. Some people were getting sidetracked by philosophies that didn’t line up with the gospel, and as a result, they...
Jan 10, 2020 | Word Among Us
Christmas Weekday I do will it. Be made clean. Last September, the Vatican opened the cause for canonization of John Bradburne, a British man who died in 1979 after spending fifteen years serving people with leprosy in Zimbabwe. Bradburne was known and...
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