Sharing the Word

Ash Wednesday February 22, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Joel 2:12-18 Today is the first day of Lent, the Church’s season of repentance. The prophet Joel gives us two insights into what repentance involves. First, repentance is an affair of ...

Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time February 21, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Mark 9:30-37 As Jesus makes his final journey to Jerusalem, he begins to tell his apostles about his upcoming passion and death. He will be ...

Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time February 20, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Sirach 1:1-10 The author of Sirach was a Jewish educator concerned about the spread of pagan Greek culture among the Jews. He teaches that Jewish ...

Saturday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time February 18, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Hebrews 11:1-7 We’ve been hearing about the primeval history of humanity, about God’s relationship with human beings. To conclude our reading of this portion of ...

Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time February 17, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Genesis 11:1-9 Human assertiveness strikes again. We saw it in the desire of Adam and Eve to be like God, and in Cain’s envious desire ...

Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time February 16, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Genesis 9:1-13 The flood is now over and creation has been reconstituted. Today’s reading teaches us how humans fit into God’s plans. First of all, ...