Sharing the Word

Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe August 14, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Deuteronomy 10:12-22 How are the Israelites supposed to behave? First, God’s people are called to be mindful of their special relationship with God–chosen to be God’s own. They ...

Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time August 12, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Matthew 17:14-20 The issue in this narrative is not the cure of the afflicted boy. It’s the inability of the disciples to effect the cure. ...

Memorial of Saint Clare of Assisi August 11, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Deuteronomy 4:32-40 Deuteronomy–“Second Law”–is the last book of the Pentateuch. Some of Deuteronomy consists of historical material dealing with events occurring just before the Israelites’ crossing into ...

Feast of Saint Lawrence August 10, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: 2 Corinthians 9:6-10 Saint Lawrence is one of Rome’s most famous post-apostolic martyrs, and he has his own set of readings. Saint Lawrence was a deacon associated with Pope ...

Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time August 9, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Numbers 13:1-2, 25-14:1, 26a-29a, 34-35 The Israelites finally come to the land promised to them and they don’t like it! It’s too demanding, too difficult ...

Memorial of Saint Dominic August 8, 2013Daily Reading from the USCCB: Numbers 12:1-13 Complaints again, this time about leadership. Miriam complains because Moses has taken a despised foreign woman as his wife. In addition, Moses seems to have assumed for ...