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“The Mystics Would Like a Word” with Shannon Evans
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.
34th Annual Fall Event
Follow Along as Mary Magdalene Goes to the Synod
Catholic Women Preach Cleveland Book Launch
2024 Fall Event Night Two – Award Ceremony
Deborah Rose Accepts 2024 Fr. Louis Trivison Award
Kayla August Accepts 2024 Sr. Christine Schenk Award
2024 Fall Event Night One
Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Today we invite you to explore the sanitizing of Mary’s life and Jesus’s conception; engage the oppression of poor and marginalized people and women through Mary’s story; and embody a liberative approach to sexuality with pregnancy stories from religious people, and the fallout of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
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
Activists frustrated yet hopeful after synod punts on women deacons
Heidi Schlumpf | National Catholic Reporter
The quiet revolution in women’s roles in the Church
Joanna Thyer | Eureka Street (Australian Jesuit Magazine)
Major Vatican Reform Effort Ends In “Patriarchal Stalling” On Ordination of Women
Gary Gately | The Catholic Observer