Sts. Basil & Gregory
From today’s Scripture: “All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation by our God.”—Ps 98:3 We all face the deadening temptation of not remembering the wonderful gifts we have received from God. For example, when we are baptized, we are taken into the family of God, becoming his daughter or his Son and […]
Mary, Mother of God
From today’s Scripture: “This is how you shall bless the Israelites. Say to them: The Lord bless you and keep you! The Lord let his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord look upon you kindly and give you peace.”—Nm 6:23-26 God told Moses how much he loved and cared for […]
Seventh Day of Christmas Octave
From today’s Scripture: “And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory.”—Jn 1:14 Christmas is beyond imagination. The one who made our Milky Way galaxy with its 100 billion stars and the one who made hundreds of billions of other galaxies became a human in a tiny country […]
MISSION TO GEORGIA
The difference between the Kenyan home of Franciscan Sisters Imelda Ngwitu and Ancilla Abonyo and their current location in Southwest Georgia might be even greater than the 12,000 miles that separate them. The Sisters relocated from an overwhelmingly Catholic culture to a place where the faith remains something of a mystery. They were dropped in […]
Sixth Day of Christmas Octave
From today’s Scripture: “Do not love the world or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father in not in him.”—1 Jn 2:15 St. John’s letter challenges us to put first things first. I think our tendency is to try to love both our Father and the things […]
Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
From today’s Scripture: “Each year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover.”—Lk 2:41 This was not like Catholics attending Midnight Mass every year. Their transportation was on foot, and Jerusalem was about 95 miles south of Nazareth. So they spent about three days walking each way, and the Passover Festival lasted seven […]
Feast of the Holy Innocents
From today’s Scripture: “Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed.”—Jn 20:8 Today we celebrate the feast of St. John the Apostle. St. John was a special friend of Jesus. One of the best examples of this friendship was that he stood […]
St. John
From today’s Scripture: “Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed.”—Jn 20:8 Today we celebrate the feast of St. John the Apostle. St. John was a special friend of Jesus. One of the best examples of this friendship was that he stood […]
CHRISTMAS IN A NEW MISSION: OPPORTUNITY FOR PRESENCE
In the three-and-a-half years since a town hall meeting was convened to explore the possibility of establishing a Catholic church in Smith County, Tennessee, much has changed. With no Catholic church in Smith County ever, since its 1799 founding, local Catholics had more recently been advocating for a worship site. The initial group of 32 […]
St. Stephen
From today’s Scripture: “Whoever endures to the end will be saved.”—Mt 10:22 The day after Christmas we hear in Scripture the cost of the disciples who follow the child Jesus. There will be hatred for the followers of Jesus, but the end victory is salvation. Today we also celebrate the feast of St. Stephen, the […]
