Vocations Newsletter

Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary, and LazarusJohn 11:19-27Martha said to him,"I know he will rise,in the resurrection on the last day."Jesus told her,"I am the resurrection and the life;whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,and anyone who lives and believes in me will never die.Do you believe this?"She said to him, "Yes, Lord.I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God,the one who is coming into the world."
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Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary TimeMatthew 13:31-35Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds.“The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seedthat a person took and sowed in a field.It is the smallest of all the seeds,yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants.It becomes a large bush,and the birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.”
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Feast of Saint James, ApostleMatthew 20:20-28The mother of the sons of Zebedee approached Jesus with her sonsand did him homage, wishing to ask him for something.He said to her,"What do you wish?"She answered him,"Command that these two sons of mine sit,one at your right and the other at your left, in your Kingdom."Jesus said in reply,"You do not know what you are asking.Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?"
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Join Robert Ellsberg, publisher of Orbis Books, in this One On One interview with author Michael J. Rogers, as they discuss Many Paths with Mary: Popular Piety and the Future Church.  Michael J. Rogers takes readers on an international journey, exploring how Mary, Mother of God, comes to be understood in different times and places: including 16th century Copacabana, Boliva, and Tepeyac, Mexico, 19th century Lourdes, France, and even more recently in Mexico. He explicates some of the many ways that the Holy Spirit speaks through the people of God when popular piety emerges in the meeting of distinct cultures, through moments of meaning, and amid ruptures in society.Michael J. Rogers is currently head of mission for Catholic hospitals in New England. He earned his PhD from the University of Toronto and holds degrees from the College of the Holy Cross, Saint Louis University, and the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. He completed most of the field research for Many Paths with Mary while a fellow at the McFarland Center for Religion Ethics and Culture, College of the Holy Cross. He has written for Crux, America, and the Huffington Post and is an occasional commentator for Vatican Radio, Euronews, Catholic News Service,…
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