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

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

The Hour We Fail to Read: Seeking the Face of God Where We Are Divided

Among the saints the Church may recall on this Friday of the twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time is John of Capistrano, a Franciscan priest, and today we meet Paul, a psalm and a crowd that reads the s...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 22, 2026

The Fire That Begins as a Seed: Christ Longs to See the Earth Kindled

Today, on the Thursday of the twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time, the Church may also remember Saint John Paul II, pope and native of Poland, and she lets Paul and the psalmist prepare us for a startl...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 21, 2026

The Master Who Serves: Lamps Lit in the Night, and the Peace That Brings Us Near

Throughout the twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time, the Church reads the letter of Paul, apostle of the nations, to the Ephesians, and on this Tuesday sets beside it a word of Jesus about servants who ...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 19, 2026

The Man Who Built Bigger Barns, and the God Who Gives Life as a Gift

Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Jesuit priests, and their companions, martyrs of Canada, are remembered today in an optional memorial, and on this Monday of the twenty-ninth week in Ordinary ...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 18, 2026

Whose Image Is This? The Coin in Their Hands, and the Seal God Has Put on Us

On this twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time of Year A, the Church sets before us a king who did not know God, a young church faithful in hardship and a question laid as a trap. Our difficulty is the ...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 17, 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.

Stories, reflections and testimonies from the SMB and its MISAL partner societies — historical portraits, biblical and missionary spirituality, news from the houses of mission across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

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