Oct 9, 2024 | Word Among Us
Saint Denis, Bishop, and Companions, Martyrs (Opt. Memorial) They recognized the grace bestowed upon me. Relationships are tricky. They can bring us so much love and joy, but they also challenge us—especially when we don’t see things eye-to-eye. In today’s first...
Oct 8, 2024 | Word Among Us
27th Week in Ordinary Time Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? The story of Martha and Mary is so well known that we often reduce it to a caricature: Mary is holy; Martha is bitter. Be like Mary, not Martha. We might even...
Oct 7, 2024 | Word Among Us
Our Lady of the Rosary (Memorial) Go and do likewise. Jews and Samaritans—the hatred between them stretched all the way back to the eighth century BC. When Assyria conquered the northern kingdom of Israel (also known as Samaria) in 721 BC, they deported many Jews and...
Oct 5, 2024 | Word Among Us
Saint Faustina Kowalksa, Virgin (Optional Memorial) I have dealt with great things that I do not understand. Job thought he knew who God was and how God should behave. So when he faced catastrophe upon catastrophe, he felt he was being treated unfairly. He was one of...
Oct 4, 2024 | Word Among Us
Saint Francis of Assisi (Memorial) They would long ago have repented. Imagine that you’ve found an old painting in an antique shop and paid fifteen dollars for it. You take it home and try to clean it up, but nothing seems to work. You decide to take it to an art...
Oct 3, 2024 | Word Among Us
26th Week in Ordinary Time Why do you hound me? On top of all the sorrow and loss that Job experienced, he had to endure the judgment and misunderstanding of his wife and friends. “Curse God and die!” his wife told him (2:9). And his friends accused him at length of...
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