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Word of God

The light of the Star of Bethlehem continues to shine in our time, wherever the Gospel takes root.

Empty Hands on the Road: Preferring Christ and Counting the Cost

Charles Borromeo, bishop of Milan, is remembered today, and this Wednesday of the thirty-first week in Ordinary Time brings us the demanding words Jesus speaks to the crowds that follow him. Our diffi...

Bible Spirituality

Nov 3, 2026

The Table Already Laid: The Great Feast and the Emptied Christ

Tuesday of the thirty-first week in Ordinary Time carries the optional memorial of Saint Martin de Porres, a Dominican religious in Lima, and it sets a table already laid before us. Our difficulty is ...

Bible Spirituality

Nov 2, 2026

The Hand That Holds Our Dead: Nothing Lost, Everything Raised at the Last Day

On the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, observed on the day after All Saints, the Church prays for its dead and asks what has become of those we have lost. Our difficulty is to believe that...

Bible Spirituality

Nov 1, 2026

The Crowd in White Robes: All Saints and the Blessing That Comes First

All Saints, the solemnity on which the Church honours every saint of God, whether named in her calendar or known only to him, falls this year on a Sunday. We tend to keep holiness at a distance, as th...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 31, 2026

Go Up Higher: The Lowest Seat and the Life That Is Christ

Saturday of the thirtieth week in Ordinary Time sets a prisoner's letter beside a meal on the Sabbath. Both texts meet our quiet need to be placed, noticed and honoured before others, even in matters ...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 30, 2026

The Man Before the Table: Bread Is Shared Where Someone Is Made Whole

With this Friday of the thirtieth week in Ordinary Time, the Church sets a table before us: a letter of thanks from Paul, the apostle writing in chains, a psalm about food given, and a Sabbath meal am...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 29, 2026

Armed by God, Gathered Under His Wings: The Prophet Who Walks On to Jerusalem

Thursday of the thirtieth week in Ordinary Time brings us Paul, the apostle who writes in chains, and Jesus, who walks on toward Jerusalem. Both speak of a danger that is real, and both ask where we f...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 28, 2026

From the Night of Prayer to the Level Place: Two Apostles Built into the House of God

Simon the Zealot and Jude Thaddaeus, two of the Twelve whom Jesus named Apostles, are honoured together by the Church on this feast. Our difficulty is to believe that a mission born in a night of pray...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 27, 2026

The Seed in the Garden, the Leaven in the Flour: A Kingdom Larger Than Our Hands

On this Tuesday of the thirtieth week in Ordinary Time, an ordinary weekday, the Church reads the apostle Paul's letter to the Ephesians and two small parables of Jesus. Our difficulty is a hurried he...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 26, 2026

Straightened on the Sabbath: A Daughter of Abraham Set Free

Monday of the thirtieth week in Ordinary Time shows us a woman bent double for eighteen years, and a Church told to walk as children of light. Our difficulty is the distance between a religion kept in...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 25, 2026

The Stranger at the Door: One Love for God and Neighbour

This thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time of Year A gathers a law for the stranger, a church marked by joy in tribulation and a question put to Jesus as a test. Our difficulty is a love divided between w...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 24, 2026

One More Year: The Vinedresser Who Digs Around Us and the Call to Grow

On this Saturday of the twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time, the Church remembers Saint Anthony Mary Claret, a Catalan bishop and the founder of a missionary family. Our difficulty is the habit of read...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 23, 2026

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Each day of the year, this blog offers a short meditation on the Gospel of the day, read in the light of Bethlehem spirituality.

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