Oct 12, 2019 | Word Among Us
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary Blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it. Throughout his Gospel, Luke gives special honor to Jesus’ mother, the Virgin Mary. In the opening chapter, the angel calls her highly favored, and Elizabeth...
Oct 11, 2019 | Word Among Us
Saint John XXIII, Pope (Optional Memorial) The house of your God is deprived. . . . Cry to the Lord! In the year 2000, at the start of the new millennium, Pope St. John Paul II celebrated a special Mass for Pardon, in which he led the congregation in...
Oct 10, 2019 | Word Among Us
27th Week in Ordinary Time What do we profit by keeping his command? The Israelites had been questioning God’s justice. They saw people who had strayed yet still prospered. Where was the fairness in that? If God seemed to be blessing the wicked,...
Oct 9, 2019 | Word Among Us
Saint Denis, Bishop, and Companions, Martyrs (Optional Memorial) Teach us to pray. It was a reasonable request. The disciples had seen Jesus in prayer numerous times. They had also seen him perform many powerful miracles and minister God’s mercy to...
Oct 8, 2019 | Word Among Us
27th Week in Ordinary Time When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way . . . “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed” (Jonah 3:4). That’s easily imagined, as Nineveh was known for treachery, immorality, and deceitful...
Oct 7, 2019 | Word Among Us
Our Lady of the Rosary (Memorial) The men offered sacrifice and made vows to [the Lord]. Prayer, sacrifice, acceptance of God’s will—these sound like the actions of pious men, don’t they? Amazingly, these acts of faith in the “God of heaven, who made...
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