Sharing the Word for July 19, 2021 – Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
July 19, 2021
Moses encourages the Israelites to have confidence in the power that God will give them. God will see to it that they overcome the power of Pharaoh.
The World Is My Neighborhood
Carol Ann Morrow
July 19, 2021
Long distances can lead to ignorance of civil unrest, hunger, natural disasters. Though far away, all the globe’s peoples are brothers and sisters to us.
Radical Saints: Mary MacKillop
Melanie Rigney
July 19, 2021
Mary MacKillop was excommunicated for insubordination, and later she was told to move her congregation out of a diocese. Through it all, she showed a radical trust in God and the Church, even when some of its leaders were less than Christlike.
First-person accounts of religious repression punctuate summit
Many people may not think about religious repression since it doesn’t happen in the United States. For those who may argue that it does, then it doesn’t happen on the scale and terror of those living in countries with authoritarian regimes.