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Tuesday, October 6, 2026 | Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
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Dear Catholic Parents,

Martha welcomes Jesus into her home, and while her sister Mary sits at his feet listening, Martha, "burdened with much serving," asks him to tell Mary to help. The Lord answers, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her." In the first reading, Paul says that after God called him he did not hurry to consult anyone but "went into Arabia," and only after three years went up to Jerusalem. Both readings put time with God ahead of busyness. Today's news has a pope's lament, pilgrims on their way to pray, and a relic of a bishop who kept an hour with the Lord every day.

The deeper reflection on today's readings - and a daily prayer for your household - is waiting in the & Altar app and at andaltar.com. More after the news.

📰 Quick Hits

1. Pope Leo to Gaza's Parish Priest: "How Long, O Lord?"

Pope Leo XIV has sent a personal message to Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, pastor of Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, after Saturday's airstrike in Gaza City, which the Israeli military says targeted a Hamas official, killed five people. Among them were Maysa Abu Daoud and her daughter Mary Najjar, the two Greek Orthodox women we wrote about yesterday. "Since learning the painful news of the deaths of Maysa and Mary, I have been praying to God for them, for their families and for the entire community of Gaza. How long, O Lord?" the Pope wrote. "Thank you for accompanying the parish and so many people who wish to live in peace." Fr. Romanelli and the Missionaries of Charity continue to assist hundreds of displaced people with nowhere safe to go.

Faith Lens for the Home: The Pope's whole reply is a prayer and a thank-you: he sits with the grief, asks the question Scripture gives him, and thanks the priest who stayed. Ask your family: "Is there a hard thing we can't fix that we could simply bring to the Lord out loud?" Pray for Maysa and Mary, for Fr. Romanelli, and for everyone sheltering at Holy Family.

2. At Least 17 Killed on a Kenyan Highway, Most of Them Pilgrims

A crash on the highway to Mombasa early Saturday killed at least 17 people, most of them Catholic pilgrims traveling to a prayer site in Nakuru County, according to Archbishop Martin Kivuva of Mombasa. Police say a truck driver tried and failed to overtake another truck, causing a collision with a van carrying the pilgrims; the van's driver and 16 passengers, most of them women, died at the scene. Archbishop Kivuva said he and others were "saddened with lots of grief," and President William Ruto offered condolences to the families, friends, parishioners and the entire Catholic community "who are mourning this painful loss." Kenya's road safety authority calls the stretch a "black spot."

Faith Lens for the Home: Most of the dead were traveling overnight to a place of prayer. Ask your family: "How far would we go to spend time with the Lord, and what would we set aside to make room for it?" Pray for the dead, their families, and the Archdiocese of Mombasa.

3. Peoria's Bishop Gives Pope Leo a Relic of Blessed Fulton Sheen

On Monday, Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria presented Pope Leo XIV with a relic of Blessed Fulton Sheen during a private audience at the Vatican, eleven days after Sheen's beatification in St. Louis. "To place a relic of this son of the Diocese of Peoria into the hands of the first American pope, both of whom are from Illinois, was an especially moving moment," Tylka said. Leo has praised Sheen as "a light of faith, hope and love that shone through the radio and television media for decades," and told OSV News on the flight to Paris that he remembers watching Sheen on television with his family as a child.

Faith Lens for the Home: Sheen made a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament every day from his ordination in 1919, through decades of travel and broadcasting, and called it "the hour that makes my day." That is the "better part" from today's Gospel, kept through a very busy life. Ask your family: "What one thing would we protect on the calendar, even in a busy week, to sit at the Lord's feet?"

⛪ Family Saint Spotlight

Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher - October 6

Eulalie Durocher was born on October 6, 1811, the tenth of eleven children in a village near Montreal. She wanted to be a sister, but her health stood in the way, so for more than a decade she kept house and helped in the parish for her priest brother, and in Beloeil she became known as "the saint of Beloeil." At the request of Bishop Bourget of Montreal, she set out to establish a community of teachers, and in 1843 she founded, with two companions, the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary to educate children, especially the poor, taking the name Sister Marie-Rose. She died on her 38th birthday, October 6, 1849, after six hard years of poverty and sickness; by then the community had 29 professed sisters and four houses of education. Her motto was "Jesus and Mary, my strength and my glory," and John Paul II beatified her in 1982.

Also today: St. Bruno. Born in Cologne around 1030, Bruno was a respected teacher at Reims who, on the verge of being made a bishop, kept an earlier vow to renounce worldly affairs. In 1084 he and six companions went to the Chartreuse mountains near Grenoble to live in silence and prayer, and the Carthusian Order grew from that hermitage; he died in Calabria on October 6, 1101. The Carthusian motto is Stat crux dum volvitur orbis: "The Cross is steady while the world turns."

Ask at dinner: "Marie-Rose spent more than a decade keeping house and helping in a parish before she founded a community of teachers. Where might God be using the ordinary, unnoticed work in our family to prepare something we can't yet see?"

✋ One Simple Action

Tonight, take five quiet minutes as a family with no screens, and read Luke 10:38-42 aloud. Pray one decade of the Rosary, as Pope Leo has asked this month, for the pilgrims who died in Kenya and for the Christians of Gaza. If you can, spend a Holy Hour, or even a half hour, in front of the Blessed Sacrament this week in honor of Blessed Fulton Sheen.

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Martha was busy with much serving, and the Lord named the one thing needed. A pope answered grief with a prayer and a thank-you. At least seventeen people died on an overnight road to a place of prayer. A bishop put a relic of a man who kept an hour with the Lord every day into the hands of the pope who remembers watching him on television as a child. Find your hour today, or even five minutes of it.

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Deacon Michael Halbrook
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