Feb 19, 2024 | Word Among Us
1ST WEEK OF LENT Be holy, for I, the Lord, your God, am holy. When we hear this commandment, two questions come to mind: What does it mean to be holy? And how are we supposed to get there? The Hebrew word for “holy” is kodesh, which means to be “set apart.” When God...
Oct 9, 2023 | Word Among Us
SAINT DENIS, BISHOP, AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) The Lord, however, hurled a violent wind upon the sea. If you read the story of Jonah carefully, you’ll notice that the Lord never abandoned his wayward prophet. Instead, he kept calling him back. At...
Jul 28, 2023 | Word Among Us
16TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME I, the Lord, am your God. . . . You shall not have other gods besides me. In ancient times, pagan priests portrayed their gods as vindictive and capricious. According to them, sacrifices like choice meats and fine wine were meant to appease...
Mar 7, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINTS PERPETUA AND FELICITY, MARTYRS (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Be holy, for I, the Lord, your God, am holy. Doesn’t this command—to be holy as God is holy—sound impossible, and therefore a little frightening? We know that God is holy; we repeat it three times at every...
Dec 10, 2021 | Word Among Us
OUR LADY OF LORETO (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) I, the Lord, your God, . . . lead you in the way you should go. God’s people are in a terrible state. Jerusalem—especially the Temple where they used to encounter God—is in ruins, and they are living in exile. Clearly, they’ve...
