Apr 12, 2024 | Word Among Us
2ND WEEK OF EASTER All day long, . . . they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the Christ, Jesus. What if you heard some really good news, something utterly life-changing? This news has made you so happy that you are bursting with joy. You just can’t contain...
Apr 11, 2024 | Word Among Us
SAINT STANISLAUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR (MEMORIAL) He does not ration his gift of the Spirit. In many movies or plays, there are two main characters whom everyone remembers: a hero and a villain, perhaps, or two star-crossed lovers. But often enough there is a third...
Apr 10, 2024 | Word Among Us
2ND WEEK OF EASTER Go and . . . tell the people everything about this life. Imagine that you are one of the apostles sitting in that jail cell. What would you do when the angel shows up, unlocks the door, and leads you to freedom? Would your first instinct be to get...
Apr 9, 2024 | Word Among Us
2ND WEEK OF EASTER The wind blows where it wills . . . ; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. If you think about it, the Christian life is more like using a sailboat than a jet ski. A jet ski generates its own power, and its driver traverses the water...
Apr 8, 2024 | Word Among Us
THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD (SOLEMNITY) The virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him Emmanuel. Isn’t it astounding to think that eight centuries before the angel made the annunciation to Mary, the prophet Isaiah spoke of a virgin bearing a child...
Apr 6, 2024 | Word Among Us
SATURDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard. The Jewish elders thought that putting Jesus to death should have been enough to stop his followers from talking about him anymore. Clearly, they had misread...
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