Stopping by Church on a Summer Afternoon

Kristina Santos July 24, 2020

Weighed down by life, a woman finds respite in her church.

Sharing the Word for July 24, 2020

Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk July 24, 2020

There is nothing wrong with the seed, or the words and actions of Jesus that express his mission. If the results of the sowing are sparse, it’s because of the poor quality of the soil in which the seed is sown.

Sharing the Word for July 23, 2020

Jim Van Vurst, OFM July 23, 2020

It’s probably not difficult to recall times in our lives’ journeys when we were “lost and wayward.” We really needed to be found again through God’s love and care for us.

Sunday Soundbite for July 26, 2020

Greg Friedman, OFM July 22, 2020

It isn’t lack of money that usually keeps me from being as intense about the Kingdom of God as Jesus proposes. How about you? What’s distracting you from the Kingdom?

Sharing the Word for July 22, 2020

Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk July 22, 2020

Mary Magdalene is an attractive figure. She is interested only in the Lord, and when she identifies him she doesn’t want to let him go.

Sharing the Word for July 21, 2020

Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk July 21, 2020

Jesus is not saying that his natural family is unimportant, but that the new community of faith that he is beginning to gather around him is more important and has its own primacy.

Sharing the Word for July 20, 2020 – Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time – Year 2

Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk July 20, 2020

Sometimes we are tempted to ask for some further indication that the Lord is really with us. But in Jesus we already have all the certainty we need.

Radical Saints: Mary MacKillop

Melanie Rigney July 19, 2020

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.

Sharing the Word for July 18, 2020

Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk July 18, 2020

The Pharisees are troubled by Jesus’ words and actions. Jesus responds by laying low. He prefers to be the quiet servant of the Lord that Isaiah foretold.