
Sharing the Word for May 31, 2021 – Ninth Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1
We Catholics ask Mary to pray for us now and at the hour of our death. She is always there for us just as she was there for Elizabeth.
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We Catholics ask Mary to pray for us now and at the hour of our death. She is always there for us just as she was there for Elizabeth.

The most important aspects of our faith, the ones that touch the greatest mysteries of how we unite ourselves to God, must be bodily experiences as much as they are spiritual ones.

Would you rather err on the side of charity or suspicion? Offer today’s prayer in solidarity with those who struggle on the periphery.

If John the Baptist got his authority from God, so does Jesus. If the Baptist’s authority wasn’t from God, then neither is Jesus’. What kind of authority does Jesus have in my life?

I often feel critical of my own body, seldom because of penances, but because of excess or unreasonable expectations.

When Jesus calls for fruitfulness, he expects to find results. If the Lord looked for fruitfulness from us today, what would he find?

I can’t escape the million proofs of a Creator’s delight in creation nor his determination to use it to woo me on earth.

Regular? Decaf? Doesn’t matter. Enjoying a pot of coffee with loved ones can be a holy moment.

In the multiplication of the loaves miracle Jesus fed the crowd, and when there was bread left over he instructed, “Gather the fragments.” Think of aspects of your past that can still be healed.

The narrative of the blind Bartimaeus is really a lesson about how we are to approach Jesus. It’s a lesson about prayer.