Dec 5, 2023 | Word Among Us
1ST WEEK OF ADVENT The wolf shall be a guest of the lamb. “Cheer up! Everything will be okay.” Well-meaning people offer this kind of consolation, but it doesn’t help much with real problems. In today’s first reading, the prophet Isaiah didn’t offer such empty...
Dec 4, 2023 | Word Among Us
ST. JOHN DAMASCENE, PRIEST AND DOCTOR (OPTIONAL MEM.) One nation shall not raise the sword against another. By Christmas Eve 1914, the First World War had been raging for six months. But something strange happened that night. In several locations along the front...
Dec 1, 2023 | Word Among Us
34TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME His kingship shall not be destroyed. The Book of Genesis tells us that in the very first act of creation, God brought order out of chaos. He spoke into a dark and formless void and established a world of light, order, and beauty for his...
Nov 30, 2023 | Word Among Us
SAINT ANDREW, APOSTLE (FEAST) Their voice has gone forth to all the earth. In our first reading, St. Paul says that the proclamation of the gospel has the power to bring salvation. But that can happen only as evangelists travel throughout the earth carrying the good...
Nov 29, 2023 | Word Among Us
34TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Not a hair on your head will be destroyed. What a strange thing for Jesus to say! Just a moment before, he had told his disciples that some of them would be put to death for their witness to the gospel (Luke 21:16). But now he promises that...
Nov 28, 2023 | Word Among Us
34TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME The great God has revealed to the king what shall be in the future. Daniel was in a tough spot. If he didn’t tell King Nebuchadnezzar the meaning of the king’s dream, he would be put to death with all the other wise men residing in Babylon....
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