For Your Weekend: Keep Showing Up

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 4:12–23

I was just starting to take my faith seriously in my late 20s. I joined the mom’s group at my parish so I could be encouraged (and influenced) by women who seemed to have the Catholic thing down. A few of us planned to attend an event at a nearby parish, and I remember asking a friend if she wanted to come with me to hear the speaker: “I think it’s called Walking with Purpose or something like that.” 

Little did I know that one week later, I’...