Sep 5, 2019 | Word Among Us
They left everything and followed him. Does it ever feel as if there are obstacles that make it hard for you to accept Jesus’ call to follow him? If so, the Lord has some words of encouragement for you right now: Jesus: “Whatever you think is holding you...
Sep 4, 2019 | Word Among Us
We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you. Paul definitely had a lot to pray for when it came to the believers in Colossae. Epaphras, a fellow missionary and probably the one who founded the church there, had run...
Sep 3, 2019 | Word Among Us
Therefore, encourage one another. Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church (Memorial) Paul wrote his first letter to the Thessalonians around AD 51, only about twenty years after Jesus’ resurrection. Like many believers at the time, the...
Sep 2, 2019 | Word Among Us
We shall always be with the Lord. Bridget left the hospital in tears. Her elderly father’s cancer had recurred—and this time it was terminal. All he could do now was accept palliative care to aid him in a peaceful death. “God has given me many good years,” he...
Aug 31, 2019 | Word Among Us
You yourselves have been taught by God to love one another Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary “Lord, teach me how to love as you love! “Thank you for loving me just as I am. You loved me even before I was conceived, when you saw all of my days—the bad as well as the...
Aug 30, 2019 | Word Among Us
The wise brought flasks of oil with their lamps. One day while St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, another friar came up and asked him, “What would you do if you knew that Jesus were coming again today?” Francis replied, “I would keep hoeing my garden.”...
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