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...
Feb 14, 2024 | Word Among Us
ASH WEDNESDAY Return to the Lord, your God. Happy Lent! We might not think of Lent as a “happy” time, but that’s the way God thinks about this season. He looks forward to it! To him, Lent is an exciting time, a hopeful time, a time for his children to come home to...
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...
Feb 3, 2022 | Word Among Us
SAINT BLAISE, BISHOP AND MARTYR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Keep the mandate of the Lord, your God, following his ways. We know that King David lived a far from perfect life. In addition to his most famous sin—his taking of another man’s wife, Bathsheba, and the murder of...
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...
