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...
Jun 26, 2020 | Word Among Us
12TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME His leprosy was cleansed immediately. From the moment he exhibited signs of leprosy, this poor man was separated from his family. He had to ring a bell and call out “Unclean!” whenever a healthy person approached him. ...
Jun 25, 2020 | Word Among Us
12TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME He deported all Jerusalem. It must have been an exciting time for Jehoiachin. As the newly installed king of Judah, he had wealth and power at his fingertips—and he was only eighteen years old! Jehoiachin, also called...
Jun 24, 2020 | Word Among Us
THE NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST (SOLEMNITY) The Lord called me from birth. The Church has always seen today’s first reading (Isaiah 49:1 – 6), one of the four “Servant Songs” from the Book of Isaiah, as a foreshadowing of Jesus, the...
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