Yes, as the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it yield and giving growth to provide seed for the sower and bread for the eating, so the word that goes from my mouth does not return to me empty, without carrying out my…[read more]
Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said: “Speak to the whole community of the children of Israel and say to them: Be holy, for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.” Leviticus 19: 1-2 When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all his angels with him, then he will sit upon his glorious throne. …[read more]
Is not this the sort of fast that pleases me –it is the Lord Yahweh who speaks— to break unjust fetters and undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and break every yoke, to share your bread with the hungry and shelter the homeless poor, to clothe the one you…[read more]
I set before you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying his voice, clinging to him . . . Deuteronomy 30: 19 If anyone wishes to come after me, that person must deny the self, take up…[read more]
But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, so that your almsgiving may be secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you…But when you pray, go to your inner room, close your door, and pray to your Father in secret…But when you fast,…[read more]
Yahweh saw that human wickedness was great on the earth, and that the thoughts in his heart fashioned nothing but wickedness all day long. Yahweh regretted having made humans on the earth, and Yahweh’s heart grieved. “I will rid the earth’s face of humanity, my own creation,” Yahweh said, “and of animals also, reptiles too,…[read more]
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves. When they heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the garden at the breezy time of the day, the man and his wife hid themselves…[read more]
He then rose up, left that place, and set out on a journey to the region around Tyre…But this woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to expel the demon from her daughter. But he said to her: “Let the children first eat all they want; for it is not…[read more]
Both were righteous in the sight of God. They walked blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord. But they had no child, for Elizabeth was barren and both had grown elderly. Luke 1: 6-7 In today’s gospel from Luke, we hear described the fulfillment of intense and painful longing in a very…[read more]
Joseph her husband, being just but not willing to shame her, planned to divorce her quietly. As he was considering this, behold an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying: “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take home Mary your wife. For what is begotten in her is from…[read more]
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