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Mary Magdalene, Her Easter Proclamation, and Why It Matters
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.
Synod on Synodality
Special Announcement
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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.
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How Americans (Don’t) Talk about Abortion with Tricia C. Bruce
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African American Readings of Paul with Lisa Marie Bowens
- 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.
- How Americans (Don’t) Talk about Abortion with Tricia C. Bruce
- African American Readings of Paul with Lisa Marie Bowens
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Today we invite you to explore the anti-empire messages in the Gospel of John; engage the message of solidarity in Catholic Social Teaching and in the Gospels; and embody solidarity against empire with the help of Community Peacemaker Teams and a contemplative exercise.
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!
Press Releases
Deb’s Retirement Message
FutureChurch in the News
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
Is the eucharistic revival an exercise in cheap grace?
By Christine Schenk, CSJ | National Catholic Reporter