Feb 24, 2020 | Word Among Us
7th Week in Ordinary Time This kind can only come out through prayer. Rock climbing can look awfully easy from below. You just find the next place to grab and then hoist yourself up. But anyone who has done serious climbing will tell you how...
Feb 21, 2020 | Word Among Us
Saint Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Optional Memorial) Faith without works is dead. It’s too bad. Ever since the time of the Reformation, believers have had a hard time reading this verse of Scripture without feeling they have...
Feb 20, 2020 | Word Among Us
6th Week in Ordinary Time Show no partiality. In his biography of St. Francis of Assisi, British author G. K. Chesterton uses an analogy to show how Francis’ whole way of thinking had changed as a result of his conversion. Deep in prayer in a...
Feb 19, 2020 | Word Among Us
6th Week in Ordinary Time [Jesus] laid hands on the man’s eyes a second time and he saw clearly. Today’s Gospel passage (Mark 8:22-26) tells the story of a healing that didn’t quite work at first. Jesus had to lay his hands on a blind man not once but...
Feb 18, 2020 | Word Among Us
6th Week in Ordinary Time He willed to give us birth by the word of truth. Think of the excitement a husband and wife feel when a new baby arrives. Then compare it to the way God must feel about us. After all, St. James tells us that God has given us a...
Feb 17, 2020 | Word Among Us
The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order (Optional Memorial) Let perseverance be perfect. Perseverance is one of those character traits that everyone values. Being able to stay the course when things get difficult is often the deciding factor between...
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