And if your hand scandalizes you, cut it off. It is better that you enter into life disabled than having two hands to go away into Gehenna, into unquenchable fire. And if your foot scandalizes you, cut it off. It is better to enter into life maimed than having two feet to be cast into…[read more]
Jesus answered and said to him: “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood have not revealed this to you but your Father who is in heaven. And I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail over…[read more]
Be sincere of heart, be steadfast, and do not be alarmed when disaster comes. Cling to the Lord and do not leave him, so that you may be honored at the end of your days. Whatever happens to you, accept it, and in the uncertainties of your humble state, be patient, since gold is tested…[read more]
Before all other things wisdom was created, shrewd understanding is everlasting. For whom has the root of wisdom ever been uncovered? Her resourceful ways, who knows them? One only is wise, terrible indeed, seated on his throne, the Lord. The Lord himself has created her, looked on her and assessed her, and poured her out…[read more]
And they said: ‘Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.’ And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.…[read more]
Then Jesus and his disciples went toward the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he questioned the disciples and said to them: “Who are people saying that I am?” They said in reply: “[Some say] John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others one of the prophets.” And he questioned them further: But…[read more]
And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled the sweet savour; and the Lord said in His heart: ‘I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of…[read more]
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden toward the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of…[read more]
He then rose up, left that place, and set out on a journey to the region around Tyre. . . . Right away upon hearing about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an evil spirit came and threw herself down at his feet. (But this woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by…[read more]
No shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground; but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the…[read more]
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