Sep 22, 2018 | Word Among Us
Love never fails. Paul’s beautiful hymn of charity, as this passage is often called, paints the picture of a mature love filled with spiritual vitality. It’s not the textbook definition of love that we find in a dictionary, but a soaring hymn that expresses what...
Sep 21, 2018 | Word Among Us
Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands; serve the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful song. Every weekend, hundreds of millions of Catholics around the world gather to celebrate Mass. They come from different backgrounds and ages, and they bring...
Sep 20, 2018 | Word Among Us
They approached Jesus and strongly urged him to come. One of Scripture’s best-known stories about the power of intercessory prayer: Jesus heals an unseen servant with only the power of his word. It’s an inspiring story, but take a look at how it all began. People...
Sep 19, 2018 | Word Among Us
Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. There is a glorious, divine irony, a cruel instrument of suffering and death has been transformed into a grace-filled instrument of healing and resurrection. We see the irony, ...
Sep 18, 2018 | Word Among Us
Be merciful, just as also your Father is merciful. One of the reasons Jesus’ teaching on mercy is so challenging is that we face many opportunities to practice it each day. Like many other challenges, our best defense is a good offense. We are better able to rise...
Sep 17, 2018 | Word Among Us
The time is running out. Because he believed that the Second Coming of Jesus was imminent, St. Paul lived with a sense of urgency. He was convinced that “time is running out”. But Paul’s urgency was not directed only to that unknown time we call Judgment Day. ...
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