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Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time July 17, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Exodus 1:8-14, 22 God chose Abraham for a special relationship
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Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time July 17, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Exodus 1:8-14, 22 God chose Abraham for a special relationship

The Book of Proverbs, which was written about 400 years before the birth of Jesus, covers only 32 pages in the Bible.

Silence precedes, undergirds, and grounds everything. We cannot just see it as an accident, or as something unnecessary.

Reflect Family is at the core of our social structure and given great importance in our Catholic faith. But sometimes we take our families for

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle AJuly 16, 2023 For many years I’ve worked at a parish that draws its members in part from a

Within each of us is the potential to be a light focusing attention on God’s presence in our world. St. Clare of Assisi’s life reveals just how much light she shed.

“Peace I leave you, my peace I give to you,” Jesus tells the apostles. Some days are so hectic and stressful that there is no peace. But then I hear Jesus’ voice, and I know that with him, peace is possible.

There is a foundational pattern of giving and receiving in every aspect of the universe—modeled on the very shape of God as Trinity.

Memorial of Saint Bonaventure July 15, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Genesis 49:29-32; 50:15-26a Jacob is dying and wants to make sure that his sons

Reflect “O come, O come, Emmanuel.” Emmanuel, the name given to Jesus, means “God is with us.” God is truly here among us—here, in the