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Alleluia! Today's Gospel gives us one of the most personal promises Jesus makes: "My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me" (John 10:27). And in Acts, the scattered believers in Antioch live that promise so visibly that the city gives them a new name: Christians. Named after their shepherd. That name is ours too - and today's news asks what we are doing with it.

📰 Quick Hits

1. A Priest Returns to His Bombed Church in Lebanon - and Finds the Tabernacle Intact

After the April 17 ceasefire, Fr. Joseph Wehbe returned to his damaged church in Tbenine, southern Lebanon - a village that had been shelled repeatedly during the conflict. The walls were cracked, windows shattered, pews covered in debris. But the tabernacle was untouched. He said simply: "Jesus was waiting for us." Mass was celebrated that same day in the rubble.

Faith Lens for the Home: The Good Shepherd is not stopped by bombed walls or broken windows. Ask your family tonight: "If everything around our faith was stripped away - the building, the programs, the comfort - what would we find at the center? Is Jesus waiting for us there?" Then go to Mass this week as if you haven't been in months. Because someone in Lebanon just did exactly that.

2. The Pope Is Calling the Whole Church to Talk About Your Family

Pope Leo XIV has summoned the presidents of every bishops' conference in the world to Rome in October to address what he calls the urgent changes impacting marriage and family. New data underscore why: U.S. births fell another 1% in 2025 to 3.6 million. Europe is producing half as many children as it did 60 years ago. The Pope called for "a concerted effort to promote choices in favor of the family" - naming the Domestic Church as the front line of the Church's mission.

Faith Lens for the Home: The Pope is gathering the whole Church to talk about your family. That is not an abstraction - it is an acknowledgment that what happens in your home is the most important thing happening in the Church right now. Ask tonight: "What does our family need most to thrive in faith? More prayer? More time together? Fewer screens? More beauty?" Write one answer down. That's your contribution to the conversation the Church is having.

3. In Antioch, They Were First Called Christians - What Does That Name Mean in Your Home?

Today's first reading gives us the first time the word "Christian" appears in Scripture - not as a label imposed from outside, but as what the people of Antioch simply called the believers because of how they lived. Barnabas came to check on them, "saw the grace of God, and was glad" (Acts 11:23). He was "a good man, filled with the Holy Spirit and faith." And the community grew.

Faith Lens for the Home: If someone watched your family for a week - your conversations, your priorities, your habits - would they call you Christians? Not as a judgment, but as a question worth sitting with. Ask your kids tonight: "What does it mean that we are named after Jesus? What's one thing our family does that makes that name visible?" Let Barnabas's response be the goal: to see the grace of God in your home and be glad.

⛪ Family Saint Spotlight

St. Louis Marie de Montfort - April 28

A French priest and apostle of Marian devotion who wrote True Devotion to Mary and spent his life preaching to the poor and forgotten. He founded two religious communities and is credited with reviving the Rosary as a family and parish prayer. He died at 43, worn out by his work.

Ask at dinner: "St. Louis said the fastest road to Jesus runs through Mary. How does our family honor Our Lady - and is there a habit we could add or revive?"

✋ One Simple Action

Today is the final day of the St. Gianna Novena. If you prayed it this week, offer a closing prayer of thanksgiving today at walkingwithmoms.com/saint-gianna-novena-day-9. And light a candle tonight - for the families in Lebanon rebuilding, for the families the Pope is gathering the Church to serve, and for your own.

📚 Read More

• Priest returns to bombed church in Tbenine: EWTN News (https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/middle-east/jesus-was-waiting-for-us-priest-returns-to-bombed-church-in-southern-lebanon)
• Pope Leo's October meeting on marriage and family: OSV News (https://www.osvnews.com/pope-leos-october-meeting-on-marriage-family-gains-urgency-amid-declining-birth-rates-in-west/)
• St. Louis Marie de Montfort: Catholic Culture (https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2026-04-28)

Jesus was waiting in the rubble of a bombed church. He is waiting in your home too. Go find him there tonight.

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