Apr 17, 2023 | Word Among Us
2ND WEEK OF EASTER Lord, . . . enable your servants to speak your word with all boldness. If you were being persecuted for your faith, you’d probably pray for the persecution to end. But in today’s first reading, the early Christians ask God for courage and boldness...
Apr 14, 2023 | Word Among Us
FRIDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tucked in his garment . . . and jumped into the sea. Can you remember a moment when you felt such unbridled excitement and anticipation that you couldn’t stand still? For example, you...
Apr 13, 2023 | Word Among Us
THURSDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER The Christ would suffer and rise from the dead. Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive . . . It’s Superman! In that famous comic, the bad guys didn’t stand a chance when Superman arrived on the scene. He...
Apr 12, 2023 | Word Among Us
WEDNESDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER What I do have I give you. The man who was carried to the Temple gate every morning didn’t set his hopes very high. He’d be grateful if a worshipper just stopped on his way in to give him a spare coin or two. Peter had no coins...
Apr 11, 2023 | Word Among Us
TUESDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER Woman, why are you weeping? Isn’t it obvious why Mary Magdalene is crying? Just three days before, she had watched Jesus suffer a painful death on a cross. All she wants to do now is give him a proper burial, and she can’t even do...
Apr 10, 2023 | Word Among Us
MONDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER But God raised him up. Today we continue our celebration of Easter, a feast so great that we spend fifty days rejoicing that Jesus has triumphed over sin and death. And in our first reading, St. Peter reminds us what our celebration...
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