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Raising Up Saints - Blessed Is She

Raising Up Saints

Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist First Reading: Isaiah 49:1-6 Hear me, O coastlands, listen, O distant peoples. The LORD called me from birth, from my mother’s...
June 24, 2016
Anchoring in God - Blessed Is She

Anchoring in God

First Reading: 2 Kings 24:8-17 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan...
June 23, 2016
Bearing Good Fruit - Blessed Is She

Bearing Good Fruit

First Reading: 2 Kings 22:8-13; 23:1-3 The high priest Hilkiah informed the scribe Shaphan, “I have found the book of the law in the temple of the LORD.” Hilkiah gave...
June 22, 2016
Clutching Our Pearls - Blessed Is She

Clutching Our Pearls

Memorial of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga First Reading: 2 Kings 19:9B-11, 14-21, 31-35A, 36 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent envoys to Hezekiah with this message: “Thus shall you say to Hezekiah,...
June 21, 2016
Judgment versus Guidance - Blessed Is She

Judgment versus Guidance

First Reading: 2 Kings 17:5-8, 13-15A, 18 Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, occupied the whole land and attacked Samaria, which he besieged for three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea,...
June 20, 2016
Universal Is Our Church - Blessed Is She

Universal Is Our Church

First Reading: Zecheriah 12:10-11; 13:1 Thus says the LORD: I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and petition;...
June 19, 2016
Practicing Detachment - Blessed Is She

Practicing Detachment

First Reading: 2 Chronicles 24:17-25 After the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and paid homage to King Joash, and the king then listened to them. They forsook...
June 18, 2016
What's Your Darkness? - Blessed Is She

What's Your Darkness?

First Reading: 2 Kings 11:1-4, 9-18, 20 When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she began to kill off the whole royal family. But Jehosheba,...
June 17, 2016
The Lord's Prayer - Blessed Is She

The Lord's Prayer

First Reading: Sirach 48:1-14 Like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah whose words were as a flaming furnace. Their staff of bread he shattered, in his zeal he reduced...
June 16, 2016
Lord, I Am a Hypocrite - Blessed Is She

Lord, I Am a Hypocrite

First Reading: 2 Kings 2:1, 6-14 When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, he and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. Elijah...
June 15, 2016
How to Love an Enemy - Blessed Is She

How to Love an Enemy

“Pray for those who persecute you.” Pray for them. Have you ever tried praying for someone who has hurt you deeply? It sounds so easy . . . all you...
June 14, 2016
Freedom in Our Hearts - Blessed Is She

Freedom in Our Hearts

Memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua, Priest & Doctor of the Church First Reading: 1 Kings 21:1-16 Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of...
June 13, 2016