A key aspect of religion is obedience to God. But true obedience comes from listening with your heart to what God is trying to tell you The post Listening With Your Heart appeared first on Catholic Bible Press ..read more

Here are the liturgical readings for the week of September 1st through September 7th, 2024 from the NRSVCE and the NABRE translations The post Liturgical Reading for the Week of September 1st, 2024 appeared first on Catholic Bible Press ..read more

Liturgical readings for the week of August 25th through August 31st, 2024 from the NRSVCE and the NABRE translations The post Liturgical Reading for the Week of August 25th, 2024 appeared first on Catholic Bible Press ..read more

Here are the liturgical readings for the week of August 18th through August 24th, 2024 from the NRSVCE and the NABRE translations The post Liturgical Readings for the Week of August 18th, 2024 appeared first on Catholic Bible Press ..read more

Here are the liturgical readings for the week of August 11th through August 17th, 2024 from the NRSVCE and the NABRE translations The post Liturgical Readings for the Week of August 11th, 2024 appeared first on Catholic Bible Press ..read more

In the last twenty years, my husband and I have had ten permanent addresses. It hardly seems right to call some of them permanent, because we’ve moved so frequently. We’ve lived in five states and often moved to communities where we knew no one.  I’ve gotten very familiar with the loneliness that comes with new surroundings. When all the faces you see are new and you aren’t sure where you fit in, it’s easy to get discouraged and forget that we can take steps to shorten this season of loneliness.   The Church Welcomes You The universality of the Catholic Church welcomes us wherev ..read more

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 Kgs 4:42-44/Eph 4:1-6/Jn 6:1-15 “I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love” Ephesians 4:1-2, NRSVCE Read More Monday Jer 13:1-11(401)/Jn 11:19-27 or Lk 10:38-42 “But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”” Luke 10:41-42, NRSVCE Read More Tuesday Jer 14 ..read more

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Jer 23:1-6/Eph 2:13-18/Mk 6:30-34 “But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have become near by the blood of Christ.” Ephesians 2:13, NABRE Read More Monday Sg 3:1-4b or 2 Cor 5:14-17/Jn 20:1-2, 11-18 “Hardly had I left them     when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him and would not let him go     until I had brought him to my mother’s house,     to the chamber of her who conceived me.”  Song of Solomon 3:4, NABRE Read More Tuesday Mi 7:14-15, 18-20/Mt 12:46-50 “And stretching out ..read more

Neither my husband or I grew up Catholic. We came into the Church as adults shortly before our first child was born, and we continue to create a “domestic church” on the fly as we go. We learn about feast days from friends at church, hear about saints we didn’t know on podcasts, and go on retreats where it seems like everyone knows prayers we’ve never heard.   My kids didn’t know the rosary because I had always shied away from it. I knew the basics, but I had never invested in the regular recitation of the rosary. I wanted to create a rosary habit, but I kept putting it off. That all ..read more

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Ez 2:2-5/2 Cor 12:7-10/Mk 6:1-6a “Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me, but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. “ 2 Corinthians 8-9, NRSVCE Read More Monday Hos 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22/Mt 9:18-26 “Then suddenly a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak, for she said to herself, “If I only touch ..read more