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This week’s liturgy
FutureChurch Online Liturgies are lay-led by volunteers from the community and include opportunity for small group faith sharing. All are welcome! Join us most Sunday evenings at 7pm ET.
Mary Magdalene Goes to the Synod
Synod on Synodality
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African American Readings of Paul with Lisa Marie Bowens
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Mary Magdalene: Her Easter Proclamation and Why It Matters
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Lenten Fasting and Body Hatred with Jessica Coblentz, Ph.D.
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From Unfathomable Grief to Unsurpassed Joy: Women of Lent and Easter with Rev. Lindsay Hardin Freeman
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Co-Creating Beauty: Queer Bodies and Queer Love with Craig Ford, Jr.
- African American Readings of Paul with Lisa Marie Bowens
- Mary Magdalene: Her Easter Proclamation and Why It Matters
- Lenten Fasting and Body Hatred with Jessica Coblentz, Ph.D.
- From Unfathomable Grief to Unsurpassed Joy: Women of Lent and Easter with Rev. Lindsay Hardin Freeman
- Co-Creating Beauty: Queer Bodies and Queer Love with Craig Ford, Jr.
Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker
Today we invite you to explore the sacredness of labor through the Hebrew Bible, and the political nature of work and rest; engage the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker through the lessons of International Workers’ Day, or May Day; and embody the sacredness of labor with the help of historic May Day and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
The Just Word This Week
Inclusive. Life-giving. Liberating.
The Just Word Commentary is a three-year project, providing life-giving, liberatory commentaries on the Catholic lectionary readings for all three years the Church has provided them (Designated Year A, Year B, and Year C). The new yearly cycle begins on the first Sunday of Advent. Right now, we are headed into Year B of the cycle, which takes its gospel readings from the book of Mark. Year A uses the book of Matthew, and Year C uses the book of Luke.
As we transition out of Year A into Year B, we want to give a huge thank you to our Year A writers for their deep thoughts and feelings. It’s not an easy thing to write from a Catholic perspective that often stands with those that the Church itself does not.
We’re so excited for our upcoming year of commentaries we have lined up, and we hope you’ll join us once again. We’d love to connect with you! Let us know your favorite entry so far or something you would love to see in Year B ahead!
FutureChurch in the News
Sisters bid farewell to a beloved bishop and friend, Tom Gumbleton
By Christine Schenk, CSJ | National Catholic Reporter
Retiring director of FutureChurch praised as woman of spirit, spunk, hope
By Katie Collins Scott | National Catholic Reporter
The Catholic diaspora: Independent communities as the church’s ‘research lab’
By Tom Roberts | National Catholic Reporter