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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.

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

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

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

Sent and Consecrated: The Prayer That Holds the Mission

The seventh week of Easter continues to read the great Johannine prayer of Jesus alongside Paul's farewell to the elders of Ephesus. Today both texts turn to the same hinge: those entrusted are also t...

Bible Spirituality

May 19, 2026

The Glory Asked, the Life Given

Two farewells anchor the seventh week of Easter today: Jesus lifting his eyes to the Father at the end of the Last Supper, and Paul, years later, taking leave of the elders of Ephesus on the beach at ...

Bible Spirituality

May 18, 2026

The Peace That Precedes the Scattering

The seventh week of Easter holds the Church in the threshold between Ascension and Pentecost. The liturgy reads the closing of Jesus's farewell discourse and the founding of the Ephesian community by ...

Bible Spirituality

May 17, 2026

A Way Made More Accurate, a Heart Made More Free

In This Saturday before Pentecost gives us two scenes of teachers being taught. In Ephesus, the eloquent Apollos is taken quietly aside by Priscilla and Aquila and shown the Way of God "more accuratel...

Bible Spirituality

May 16, 2026

I Have Many People in This City

The Friday after the Ascension finds us in two cities at once. In Corinth, Paul receives a vision in the night that gently overturns his fear. In the Upper Room, Jesus draws on the most familiar of hu...

Bible Spirituality

May 14, 2026

Why Do You Stand Looking Up?

The Solemnity of the Ascension does not mark the day Christ leaves us. It marks the day his presence stops being limited to one place. The disciples gaze into the sky; two angelic figures gently turn ...

Bible Spirituality

May 14, 2026

What You Worship Without Knowing

This Wednesday of the sixth week of Easter brings us to the great hinge of Christian witness: how to speak of God to those who do not yet know him. Paul finds an altar in Athens; Jesus promises a Spir...

Bible Spirituality

May 12, 2026

The Defender Who Comes Through Closed Doors

The sixth week of Easter places before us a paradox: it is good that Jesus goes away. In the Upper Room he says it plainly. In Philippi we see what kind of strength that promise grows — Paul and Silas...

Bible Spirituality

May 11, 2026

Hearts Opened by the Spirit

On this Monday of the sixth week of Easter, the Word of God draws us into the quiet mechanics of mission: a heart opened to receive, a heart sustained to give. Two sides of the same grace, both from t...

Bible Spirituality

May 10, 2026

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WORD OF GOD & THE SMB BLOG

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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