Apr 28, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT PETER CHANEL, PRIEST AND MARTYR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Lord, do not hold this sin against them. How could Stephen possibly forgive the people who were stoning him to death? Perhaps the answer is that it did not come out of nowhere. Scripture...
Apr 27, 2020 | Word Among Us
3RD WEEK OF EASTER His face was like the face of an angel. Finishing an Ironman Triathlon is one of the toughest challenges around. Imagine the training an athlete needs in order to complete a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride, and a 26.22-mile...
Apr 25, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT MARK, EVANGELIST (FEAST) Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel. Happy Feast of St. Mark! We first meet John Mark in Acts 12 as a young man on a mission. He lived in Jerusalem during the first persecution, when James was martyred and...
Apr 24, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT FIDELIS OF SIGMARINGEN, PRIEST AND MARTYR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) He himself knew what he was going to do. Here’s a puzzle. If Jesus already had a plan for feeding thousands of people, if he knew what he was going to do, why would he ask his...
Apr 23, 2020 | Word Among Us
SAINT GEORGE, MARTYR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) We must obey God rather than men. Not too many people, upon being released from prison, would return to the scene of the crime and repeat it. Yet that’s exactly what the apostles did. In the face of a direct...
Apr 22, 2020 | Word Among Us
2ND WEEK OF EASTER God so loved the world. Did you know that this verse is not just talking about how much God loves the world? It’s also talking about the way God loves the world. The Greek word for “so” used in this sentence means “in this manner”...
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