Sep 15, 2021 | Word Among Us
OUR LADY OF SORROWS (MEMORIAL) Behold, your mother. If you enter St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican through the doors on the right, you won’t go far before you pass by one of the most beautiful, moving sculptures in Western art: Michelangelo’s Pietà. The sculpture...
May 24, 2021 | Word Among Us
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF THE CHURCH (MEMORIAL) Woman, behold, your son. In today’s Gospel (John 19:25-34), Mary is going through the most painful moment of her life, as she watches her son’s slow and torturous death on the cross. But in this scene of unbearable...
Sep 15, 2020 | Word Among Us
OUR LADY OF SORROWS (MEMORIAL) Behold, your mother. Television shows and movies love to portray characters who experience great challenges and tragedies but who find a way to keep going and reach goals that seemed unimaginable. Stories like these can be...
Jan 11, 2019 | Word Among Us
Behold. Just a word, a suggestion, a nudge. That’s what John the Baptist gave Andrew and his friend. But it was all they needed to take the step to look for Jesus. John didn’t discuss Jesus’ teachings. He didn’t examine messianic prophecy. He just...
Dec 22, 2018 | Word Among Us
Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word. Mary and St. Juan Diego probably never imagined that God would give them a major role to play in his plan of salvation. Neither of them had any special training or standing in...
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