Ash Wednesday
Share your faith this Lent! Join our Online Discussion!
Build up others this Lent with your thoughts on the Sunday Mass readings and meditation. Three questions for reflection and discussion will be offered for Ash Wednesday and each of the six Sundays during Lent. Please pray through the questions and share your insights or what the Lord spoke to you in the comments area below. Your words will inspire others in The Word Among Us community and encourage them during this grace-filled season. Continue »
God Wants Us Anyway
Meditation on Mark 8:14-17, 19, 21
Now the disciples had forgotten to bring any bread; and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out—beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.” Continue »
God’s Song of Love
God's passionate love for us stands at the heart of our faith.
How many times have we heard someone tell us that God loves us? Love is a powerful and profound experience and yet those words—"God loves you"—can be so easily forgotten amid the day-to-day routine of life. Continue »
The Masks of Hypocrisy
Commentary on Mark 7:1-23
In Mark 7, we find some of the most revolutionary teachings in the New Testament. With prophetic insight, Jesus spoke out against the external practices that had been adopted and endorsed as the essence of religious worship. Continue »
From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary
Jesus' presentation in the Temple has much to teach us.
In one sense, it was a routine duty: Forty days after giving birth to a son, every Jewish woman was required to bring an offering before the priest—a lamb and a pigeon or turtledove if she could afford it—or two turtledoves or pigeons if she was poor. Continue »
The Stilling of the Storm at Sea
Excerpt from Mighty in Power, Mark 4:35-41
At Jesus’ initiative the apostles set out across the Sea of Galilee to the eastern shore, six or seven miles distant, as the sun was setting behind the Galilean hills (Mark 4:35). Continue »
Rising in Christ
Meditations on Living the Resurrection by Pope John Paul II
What does it mean for separated Christians to be one? What does it really mean for Christians to faithfully respond to Christ’s call to be one family, as God, the Trinity, is a family sharing one life? Continue »
His Mercy Is Always Near
Asking the Holy Spirit for his peace and healing
Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. (Hebrews 4:16, NIV) Continue »
The Action of the Holy Spirit
The Lord and Giver of Life
The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. (Luke 1:35) The first gift the Holy Spirit gives for the new order established by Christ is Christ himself. Continue »
The Good News of the Kingdom
With Healing in His Hands. He laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.
Search me through and through, O Lord. Explore my sin-bruised being and bind up my injuries (whether gained through fault or folly). Continue »