May 20, 2024 | Word Among Us
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF THE CHURCH (MEMORIAL) Behold, your mother. As a child, Florence felt her mother’s absence keenly. Her mom wasn’t physically absent, but she was emotionally unavailable. In fact, she often relied on Florence to help with the household...
Sep 15, 2023 | Word Among Us
OUR LADY OF SORROWS (MEMORIAL) Behold, your mother. Does it seem counterintuitive to celebrate the sorrows rather than the joys of our Blessed Mother? Yet there are good reasons to honor and venerate Mary under the title of Our Lady of Sorrows. Mary’s suffering shows...
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...
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...
