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Short reflections, published most days of the week, on the Word of God. A great way to start your day!

The Good Word


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    Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time: August 18 (Fr. Robert Wojtek, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2025 2:53


    Lunes de la XX semana del Tiempo ordinario: 18 de Agosto (P. Robert Wojtek, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2025 3:08


    Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: August 17 (Fr. Charles Hergenroeder, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2025 5:43


    XX Domingo ordinario: 17 de Agosto (P. Charles Hergenroeder, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2025 6:23


    Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time: August 16 (Fr. Sean McGillicuddy, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2025 2:44


    Sábado de la XIX semana del Tiempo ordinario: 16 de Agosto (P. Sean McGillicuddy, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2025 3:03


    Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: August 15 (Fr. Patrick Woods, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2025 5:33


    Solemnidad de Asunción de la Santísima Virgen María: 15 de Agosto (P. Edmundo Molina, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2025 6:51


    Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr: August 14 (Fr. Gerry Chylko, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2025 5:52


    Memoria de San Maximiliano María Kolbe, presbítero y mártir: 14 de AGosto (P. Adrian Roelly, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2025 4:45


    Miércoles de la XIX semana del Tiempo ordinario: 13 de Agosto (P. Maximo de Los Santos, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2025 3:25


    Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time: August 13 (Fr. Frank Skelly, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2025 4:40


    Martes de la XIX semana del Tiempo ordinario: 12 de Agosto (P. Agustín Cantú Drauaillet, C.Ss.R.)

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    Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time: August 12 (Fr. Peter Hill, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2025 3:55


    Memorial of Saint Clare, Virgin: August 11 (Fr. John Kingsbury, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2025 5:19


    Memoria de la Santa Clara, virgen: 11 de Agosto (P. Alipio Flores, C.Ss.R.)

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    Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: August 10 (Fr. Kevin O'Neil, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2025 6:39


    XIX Domingo Ordinario: 10 de Agosto (P. Kevin O'Neil, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2025 8:49


    Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time: August 9 (Fr. Kevin MacDonald, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2025 4:33


    We live in a time when many people believe that the existence of God is unknowable, that human reason is incapable of knowing whether God exists or that God does not exist.  This is not something new. Edith Stein, the towering intellectual saint and martyr the Church honors today, lost her faith in God during her teenage years, despite being brought up in a devout Jewish home. She was the youngest of eleven children. Her widowed mother encouraged all her children to think critically and encouraged them in their studies.  Edith's studies were interrupted by World War I. She became a volunteer nurse at an infectious disease hospital in her home town in Germany. Confronting the suffering of her patients must have been a major factor in choosing the topic of empathy for her doctoral thesis. Even with graduating summa cum laude from the University of Freiburg, she was denied a teaching certificate due to her gender. Instead, Edith became a teaching assistant to her university professor, the renowned philosopher and mathematician, Edmund Husserl. .  Edith was constantly writing and studying, but it was not until she read the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila that her life changed dramatically. She was moved to convert to Catholicism and, eventually, to enter into the convent of the Discalced Carmelites. She took the name, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, honoring her patron saint.  Her sister, Rosa, also converted and became a tertiary of the Carmelites, living outside the convent, but assisting the sisters in their mission. During the turbulent years of World War II, the leadership of the Carmelites grew concerned for the safety of St. Teresa Benedicta and her sister. They transferred them from Cologne to the Netherlands, thinking that their Jewish backgrounds would not under as much scrutiny. Soon after their transfer, however, the Dutch bishops wrote a strongly worded public letter condemning the abuses of the Nazi regime. Edith Stein also wrote a letter to Pope Pius XI, pleading that Pope must make a similar public statement against the Nazis. It is not known whether the Pope read the letter or not.   It was not long after the Dutch bishops letter that the Gestapo rounded up 244 people of Jewish descent in the Netherlands, including Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross and her sister, Rosa. They were sent to Auschwitz and murdered just a week later in the gas chambers, probably on August 9th, 1942. In a statement to her Carmelite superiors, Edith wrote: “I beg the Lord to take my life and my death…as atonement for the unbelief of the Jewish People, and that the Lord will be received by his own people and his kingdom shall come in glory, for the salvation of Germany and the peace of the world…”  Even after her arrest, she was offered an escape plan, but refused, stating: “If somebody intervened at this point and took away (her) chance to share in the fate of (her) brothers and sisters, that would be utter annihilation.” The writings of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross fill 17 volumes. A woman of integrity, she followed the truth wherever it led. She was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1999 and is one of six patrons saints of Europe.  St. Teresa Benedicta, pray for us. Blessings, Fr. Kevin MacDonald, C.Ss.R.

    Sábado de la XVII semana del Tiempo ordinario: 9 de Agosto (P. Manny Rodríguez Delgado, C.Ss.R.)

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    Memorial of Saint Dominic, priest: August 8 (Br. Kenneth Stigner, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2025 3:25


    Memoria de Santo Domingo, presbítero. P. Tomás "Martín" Deely, CSSR

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2025 5:28


    Los Dominicos “Perros del Señor” Hoy es la fiesta de San Domingo. San Domingo fundó el grupo religioso católico que se llaman Los Dominicos. Pero el nombre que el mismo San Domingo les dio fue La Orden de Predicadores.  Los padres dominicos hacen lo que Jesús nos dice en este evangelio. Porque Jesús, sabiendo que él iba dar su vida en la cruz para que conozcamos su amor le dijo a Pedro y sus demás discípulos: "El que quiera venir conmigo, que renuncie a sí mismo, que tome su cruz y me siga…. el que quiera salvar su vida, la perderá…. el que pierda su vida por mí, la encontrará. Esto mismo es lo que hacen los Dominicos hoy en día.Tengo un amigo Dominico que se llama Padre Tadeo Padre Tadeo predica la palabra de Dios. Mas que eso él VIVE la palabra de Dios, viviendo las bienaventuranzas y las obras de la misericordia. Un ejemplo de eso es que Padre Tadeo escribe y visita desde casi veinte años a un preso, Gary, que tiene cadena perpetua en la cárcel. Hay un apodo que tienen los Padres Dominicos. Se han llamado los Perros del Señor. El origen de este apodo es un sueño que supuestamente tenía la mamá de San Domingo tenía durante su embarazo. Ella soñó que un perro salió de su vientre llevando una antorcha prendida. Sea como sea la autenticidad de este sueño nos habla de la fidelidad de los Dominicos a Jesús y a la Iglesia. Porque al igual que la fidelidad de un perro o perra a su dueño o a su dueña los Padres Dominicos son siempre fieles a la palabra de Dios que predican. Nos enseñan perder nuestras vidas viviendo el amor y el espíritu de sacrificio de Jesús. Nos enseñan hacerles caso a estas palabras de Jesús: el que quiera salvar su vida, la perderá..y… el que pierda su vida por mí, la encontrará. Otra cosa es que el Santo Rosario empezó con la Virgen María apareciéndose a San Domingo. Ella le dijo que usara el rezo del Santo Rosario para combatir errores en contra de nuestra fe católica. Oremos: San Domingo, Virgen María ayudenos seguir a Jesús fielmente y ganar nuestra vida con Uds., el Padre ,Espíritu Santo y todos los demás Santos. tdeely7352@hotmail.com

    Jueves de la XVIII Semana del Tiempo Ordinario: 7 de Agosto (P. Gustavo Arias, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025 3:57


    Thursday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time: August 7 (Fr. Philip Dabney, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025 3:56


    Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord: August 6 (Fr. Francis Gargani, C.Ss.R.)

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    Fiesta de la Transfiguración del Señor: 6 de Agosto (P. Fabio Marín Morales, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2025 3:45


    Tuesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time: August 5 (Fr. John McGowan, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025 3:38


    Martes de la XVIII Semana del Tiempo Ordinario: 5 de Agosto (P. Mark Wise, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025 3:18


    Memoria de San Juan María Vianney, presbítero: 4 de Agosto (P. Tomás "Martín" Deely, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025 6:00


    El Dolor y la Tristeza de TodosJuan Bautista fu el primo de Jesús. Jesús amó mucho a su primo Juan. Es mas Jesús dejó que su primo Juan lo bautizara. Hoy le dicen a Jesús que su primo Juan es muerto. Herodes lo había matado porque le decían cosas malas que estaba haciendo. Imagínense!  El querido y bien amado primo de Jesús lo han matado. ¿Pueden imaginar la tristeza de Jesús? Por eso Jesús, lleno de tristeza, quiere ir con sus discípulos y orar y compartir con su propio Papá, Abba celestial la tristeza que siente por la horrible matanza de su valiente primo Juan Bautista. Pero no dejan en paz a Jesús. La gente tiene hambre, hambre de la palabra de Jesús…de Dios. Además la gente de entonces, como la gente de nosotros hoy día tenemos hambre también.Por eso Jesús olvida su tristeza. En vez de descansar él solo. Jesús satisface el hambre del pueblo. Hay un mensaje muy claro para nosotros acá. Porque muchas veces nosotros también somos tristes. Muchas veces la enfermedad o la misma muerte de alguien que queremos mucho nos llena de dolor y de tristeza. Pero si seguimos este bello ejemplo de Jesús pondremos nuestro dolor, nuestra tristeza al lado. Veremos, por ejemplo, el dolor y el hambre y el terror de la gente en Palestina, en Gaza. Pensaremos en la vergüenza que sienten mucha gente del estado de Israel al ver el maltrato de sus vecinos sean cristianos, sean musulmanes.  Al igual que Jesús aprenderemos a sentir el dolor y la tristeza no únicamente de nosotros, sino que veremos y nos llenaremos por la tristeza y la opresión de nuestros hermanos y hermanas en muchos lugares del mundo. Jesús, enséñame a sentir el dolor de todos.tdeely7352@hotmail.com

    Memorial of Saint John Vianney, Priest: August 4 (Fr. Matthew Allman, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025 3:53


    XVIII Domingo Ordinario: 3 de Agosto (P. Alipio Flores, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2025 5:34


    Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: August 3 (Fr. Anthony Michalik, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2025 7:29


    Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time: August 2 (Fr. Denis Sweeney, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2025 4:38


    Sábado de la XVII semana del Tiempo ordinario: 2 de Agosto (P. Freddy Lazcano, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2025 4:27


    Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church: August 1 (Fr. Ed Faliskie, C.Ss.R.)

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    Memoria de San Alfonso María de Ligorio, obispo y doctor de la Iglesia: 1 de Agosto (P. Edmundo Molina, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2025 6:30


    Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time: July 30 (Fr. John McLoughlin, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2025 5:06


    Miércoles de la XVII semana del Tiempo ordinario: 30 de Julio (P. Freddy Lazcano, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2025 4:22


    Memoria de de Santas Marta, María y Lázaro: July 29 (P. Blas Caceres, C.Ss.R.)

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    Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary, and Lazarus: July 29 (Fr. Peter Linh, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2025 6:06


    Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: July 25 (Mc Quain Clovis, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2025 4:51


    Memoria de San Joaquín y Santa Ana, padres de la Santísima Virgen María: 26 de Julio (P. Fabio Marin, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2025 4:57


    Memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary: July 26 (Fr. Jerry Knapp, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2025 6:36


    Feast of Saint James, Apostle: July 25 (Elizabeth Goral-Makowski)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 3:44


    Fiesta de Santiago, Apóstol: 25 de Julio (P. Blas Caceres, C.Ss.R.)

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    Thursday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time: July 24 (Fr. James Mc Donald, C.Ss.R.)

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    Jueves de la XVI semana del Tiempo ordinario: 24 de Julio (P. Pedro Lopez, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2025 4:32


    Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time: July 24 (Fr. Henry Sattler, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2025


    Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene: July 22 (Fr. Donald Roth, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025 3:15


    Fiesta de Santa María Magdalena: 22 de Julio (P. John Olenick, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025 4:05


    Lunes de la XVI semana del Tiempo ordinario: 21 de Julio (P. John McKenna, C.Ss.R.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2025


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