Sharing the Word for May 15, 2021
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
May 15, 2021
Apollos’ preaching shows us that the Church of these early days was not the organized community that we know today.
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Coroner rules 1971 massacre victims in Belfast were ‘entirely innocent’
OSV News
May 12, 2021
A coroner in Northern Ireland ruled that a priest and nine lay Catholics who were shot dead by British troops almost 50 years ago were “entirely innocent” and their deaths were unjustified.
Sharing the Word for April 26, 2021 – Fourth Week of Easter – Year 1
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
April 26, 2021
When the Spirit descended on a Roman centurion and his entourage, it became clear to Peter that Gentiles could–indeed should–be baptized.
The Mirror of Jesus
Margaret Carney, OSF
April 19, 2021
Clare’s writings often include the metaphor of a mirror. In Francis’s body she beheld a stark mirror of the Passion. She then taught the sisters how clearly they must pattern their lives on that of Jesus. He had to become their Mirror.
Living in Community
Margaret Carney, OSF
April 17, 2021
Clare’s “peace surpassing understanding” drew them daily into her orbit of sisterly solidarity.
New Beginnings
Margaret Carney, OSF
April 13, 2021
Clare recalled these new beginnings in later years. That she and her sisters had survived the painful trials of the foundation was not nearly as surprising to her as it was to Francis
Richard Rohr on Thomas Merton
Richard Rohr, OFM
April 12, 2021
Thomas Merton is still having an effect on Christian thought, says Richard Rohr, a longtime admirer.
Lent with St. Francis: The Cross Is before Us
Diane M. Houdek
March 28, 2021
The cross is before us now with its wordless challenge to love beyond death. Take some time this week to think about events in your own life that have given you an experience of Jesus’s command to pick up your cross and follow him.
Celebrating the Year of St. Joseph
Maureen O'Brien
March 19, 2021
Look more closely at St. Joseph’s “hidden presence” today, and invite him into your heart. Get to know this “father in the shadows” more intimately.
Tackling racism is difficult work, but it must be done, says Bishop Fabre
OSV News
March 18, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNS) — The work it takes to respond to the issue of racism in the church and the wider community is difficult and slow, but it must be done, said Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Speaking at the Archdiocese of Louisville’s online Archdiocesan Leadership Institute March 9, Bishop Fabre discussed “witnessing to the dignity of the human person as an antidote to the grave sin of racism.” And he shared six ways to respond to racism.