Sharing the Word

Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time October 10, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Jonah 3:1-10 Today’s reading gives us the second episode of the story of the reluctant prophet. After Jonah’s adventure with the stormy sea and the ...

Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time October 9, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Jonah 1:1-2:1-2, 11 The Book of Jonah is a story about a reluctant prophet struggling against God’s mercy toward sinners. In the first part of ...

Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary October 7, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29 This is a song of liberation for the Israelites living in exile in which Jerusalem bewails and consoles her captive children. First the ...

Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time October 6, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Baruch 1:15-22 The prophet Jeremiah had a secretary named Baruch, but that person does not seem to be the same as the author or editor ...

Thursday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time October 5, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Luke 10:1-12 The 72 disciples were sent out ahead of Jesus to the places he intended to visit. They were to be advance men for ...

Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi October 4, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Nehemiah 2:1-8 The reconstruction of the temple in 515 B.C., did not mark the final stage in the renovation of God’s people. The religious and secular renewal ...