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        • Popayán Colombia
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    The Fire That Answers, and the Law Fulfilled
    Wednesday of the tenth week of Ordinary Time. The first reading brings us to the great contest on Mount Carmel, where Elijah stands alone against four hundred and fifty prophets and lets God answer by...
    Bible Spirituality
    Jun 10, 2026 Word of God
    David Calls Him Lord: When the Messiah Outgrows Our Titles
    Friday of the ninth week in Ordinary Time, and the Church remembers Saint Boniface, the monk from England who crossed the sea to become apostle to the peoples of the continent and died a martyr among ...
    Bible Spirituality
    Jun 4, 2026 Word of God
    Bread Given for the Life of the World
    The solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ — in the Swiss calendar a feast of precept, kept this Thursday with processions through villages and city squares. After the desert of Lent and ...
    Bible Spirituality
    Jun 3, 2026 Word of God
    The God of the Living: Young Witnesses and a Fire to Rekindle
    Wednesday of the ninth week in Ordinary Time, and the Church honours Saint Charles Lwanga and his companions, the young men of the Ugandan court who went to the fire singing. The Gospel meets a riddle...
    Bible Spirituality
    Jun 2, 2026 Word of God
    God So Loved the World: The Trinity Names the Sending
    The Sunday after Pentecost is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. The Church spends a whole year unfolding the mystery of Christ, week by week, and at Pentecost she receives the Spirit by whom the...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 30, 2026 Word of God
    By What Authority: The Question Jesus Refuses to Answer
    Saturday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time, Year II — the last weekday of the week before Trinity Sunday. The Gospel is short, a single dialogue in the court of the Temple, the day after Jesus has o...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 29, 2026 Word of God
    Not to Be Served, but to Serve
    Wednesday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time, Year II, offers a memorial of Saint Augustine of Canterbury (d. 604), the Benedictine monk Pope Gregory the Great sent in 597 to evangelise the Anglo-Sax...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 26, 2026 Word of God
    He Threw Off His Cloak: Bartimaeus on the Way
    Thursday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time, Year II — a férie, without proper memorial, when the day's two readings are allowed their full weight. Mark closes the second half of his Gospel — the lon...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 26, 2026 Word of God
    The Hundredfold, with Persecutions
    The eighth week of Ordinary Time, Year II, opens with the memorial of Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595), the Roman priest whose laughter became, in the sixteenth century, one of the more disconcerting arg...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 25, 2026 Word of God
    Mother of the Church
    The Monday after Pentecost has only recently received its own feast. Pope Francis added the memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, to the universal calendar in 2018, fixing it prec...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 24, 2026 Word of God
    Pentecost: The Breath That Unscatters Babel
    Fifty days after Easter, the Church receives the Spirit in two scenes the lectionary places side by side: the morning of Pentecost in Acts 2, where the disciples in the Upper Room are filled with a so...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 23, 2026 Word of God
    That They May Become Perfectly One
    The seventh week of Easter reaches today the climax of Jesus's prayer at the Last Supper — the one place in the New Testament where Christ explicitly prays for us, those who will believe through the w...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 20, 2026 Word of God
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