Dec 23, 2022 | Word Among Us
4TH WEEK OF ADVENT He will sit refining and purifying silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi. Here we are, at the end of Advent, reading from the last book of the Old Testament, about to step into the New Testament. At this critical moment, the prophet Malachi...
Dec 22, 2022 | Word Among Us
4TH WEEK OF ADVENT From this day all generations will call me blessed. Imagine how Mary felt when the angel invited her to be mother of the Messiah! It would have been like a dream come true for a young Hebrew woman. What a privilege to cradle the Promised One in...
Dec 21, 2022 | Word Among Us
4TH WEEK OF ADVENT Your voice is sweet, and you are lovely. Does this passage make you feel as if you’ve stumbled into the middle of a romance novel? The Song of Songs is, in fact, a series of love poems. It doesn’t even mention God by name one time! So you wouldn’t...
Dec 20, 2022 | Word Among Us
4TH WEEK OF ADVENT You will conceive in your womb and bear a son. It was a day probably like any other day, more than two thousand years ago, when an angel appeared to Mary and announced the coming of the Messiah. The people of God had been waiting a very long time,...
Dec 19, 2022 | Word Among Us
4TH WEEK OF ADVENT You will have joy and gladness. Zechariah had spent so many years praying for a child that he had become accustomed to God’s silence. It’s no wonder, then, that he was terrified when God finally answered! And what a set of questions this answer...
Dec 17, 2022 | Word Among Us
3RD WEEK OF ADVENT Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ. In the Old Testament, a genealogy was normally traced through the male members of a family. Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus in today’s Gospel is no exception. But along with all the men from Abraham to...
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