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Thursday 1st of Lent listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 7:7-12): Jesus said to his disciples; “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the o...
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Thursday 10 March 2022 Thursday of the 1st week of Lent Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Thursday of the 1st week of Lent From a homily by Saint Asterius of Amasea, bishopBe shepherds like the Lord You were made in the image of God. If then you wish to r...
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Thursday 10 March 2022 Thursday of the 1st week of Lent Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fath...
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Thursday 10 March 2022 Thursday of the 1st week of Lent Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the ...
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Thursday 10 March 2022 Thursday of the 1st week of Lent Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fa...
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Thursday 10 March 2022 Thursday of the 1st week of Lent Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father a...
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Thursday 10 March 2022 Thursday of the 1st week of Lent Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fathe...
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Thursday 10 March 2022 Thursday of the 1st week of Lent Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to th...
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Thursday 10 March 2022 Thursday of the 1st week of Lent Compline (Night Prayer)(today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and...
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The Commonwealth of Heaven Wednesday, March 9, 2022 In Philippians 3 says, "For our citizenship is in heaven from where we also wait for the Savior." In the ancient world, citizens specifically referred to a colony of a nation that was residing outside of its home. But they w...
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Jesus: The Child Jesus The parents brought in [to the Temple] the Child Jesus... And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon Him. Luke 2:27-40 Jesus did not enter the world as a spirit; nor did He ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Lord God, Today I pray for the Christians and churches that are being persecuted around the world. My prayer is that they will remain steadfast in their faith and that they will know Your love, peace and protection. ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NIV We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
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Wednesday of the First Week in Lent Lectionary: 226 Reading I Jon 3:1-10 The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you.” So Jonah made ready and went to...
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Wednesday of the First Week in Lent listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 11:29-32): While still more people gathered in the crowd, he said to them, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, exc...
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Wednesday 9 March 2022 Wednesday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Frances of Rome, Religious) Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Wednesday of the 1st week of Lent From a demonstration by Aphraates, bishopCircumcision of the heart La...
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Wednesday 9 March 2022 Wednesday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Frances of Rome, Religious) Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come ...
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Wednesday 9 March 2022 Wednesday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Frances of Rome, Religious) Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, c...
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Wednesday 9 March 2022 Wednesday of the 1st week of Lent Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the F...
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Wednesday 9 March 2022 Wednesday of the 1st week of Lent Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father ...
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Wednesday 9 March 2022 Wednesday of the 1st week of Lent Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fath...
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Wednesday 9 March 2022 Wednesday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Frances of Rome, Religious) Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God,...
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Wednesday 9 March 2022 Wednesday of the 1st week of Lent Compline (Night Prayer)(today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father an...
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The car Saint Tuesday, March 8, 2022 There are people who keep little statues of saints in their car. But there is another kind of car saint. Picture yourself in your car and it feels like the car ahead of you is going 20 miles per hour. You can't pass. You are anxious; you a...
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Jesus: The Serpent in the Wilderness And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. John 3:14 The Serpent in the Wilderness was a sign of the people’s sin. It was a brass sculpture of a snake that was placed on ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Lord God, Desire of All Nations, As You declared... '...and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the Lord of...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Matthew 28:19 NKJV Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
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Tuesday of the First Week of Lent Lectionary: 225 Reading I Is 55:10-11 Thus says the LORD: Just as from the heaven the rain and snow come down And do not return there &...
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Tuesday of the First Week of Lent listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 6:7-15): Jesus said to his disciples: “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Y...
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Tuesday 8 March 2022 Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint John of God, Religious) Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent From a treatise on the Lord's Prayer by Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyrHe has g...
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Tuesday 8 March 2022 Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint John of God, Religious) Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our a...
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Tuesday 8 March 2022 Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint John of God, Religious) Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to o...
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Tuesday 8 March 2022 Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fathe...
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Tuesday 8 March 2022 Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and ...
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Tuesday 8 March 2022 Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father a...
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Tuesday 8 March 2022 Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint John of God, Religious) Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to...
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Tuesday 8 March 2022 Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent Compline (Night Prayer)(today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to...
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What's Outside & What's Inside Monday, March 7, 2022 The disciples are in the boat and the storm comes to Galilee. Just like that, you are going to have storms in your life. In Galilee, the storms come very quickly, so also in life. But Messiah was in their boat. You have sto...
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The Father: God our Father To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 1:7 God our Father is your Heavenly Father—He is the One who knows you personally an...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father God, Thank You for being my everything. Each day when I wake up, I choose to follow You. Show me what it means to live each moment of each day for You. Please allow me to have th...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Job 34:4 NIV Let us discern for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good. James 1:5 NKJV If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given t...
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Monday of the First Week of Lent Lectionary: 224 Reading I Lv 19:1-2, 11-18 The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the whole assembly of the children of Israel and tell them: Be holy, for I, the LORD, your God, am holy. “You shall not steal. You shall ...
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Monday 1st of Lent listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 25:31-46): Jesus said to his disciples: “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assemb...
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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs) Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Monday of the 1st week of Lent From a sermon by Saint Gregory NazianzenLet us show each other God's gener...
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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs) Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come t...
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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs) Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, co...
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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father ...
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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to...
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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and...
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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs) Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, ...
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Monday 7 March 2022 Monday of the 1st week of Lent Compline (Night Prayer)(today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to t...
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Jesus: The Finisher of Our Faith Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2 Jes...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Dear Heavenly Father, You are God, our Protector and our Healer. I pray for the nations and peoples that are in the midst of war, struggling to recover from brokenness and trying to rebuild after disasters. ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Isaiah 54:10 NIV Though the mountains be shaken, and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
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St. Colette Saint of the Day St. Colette (1381-1447) was born in Picardy, France, the daughter of a poor carpenter who served the local Benedictine abbey. Her parents conceived her in their old age after praying to St. Nicholas for a child, naming Colette after him. She became well known...
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Today's Meditation “God sees you in secret. Know that he sees into your very depths, infinitely farther than you do yourself. Make a simple, lively act of faith in his presence. Christian soul, place yourself entirely under his gaze. He is very near. He is present, for he gives being and moti...
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First Sunday of Lent Lectionary: 24 Reading I Dt 26:4-10 Moses spoke to the people, saying: “The priest shall receive the basket from you and shall set it in front of the altar of the LORD, your God. Then you shall declare before the Lord, your God, &lsq...
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First Sunday of Lent (C) listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 4:1-13): Filled with the holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 1st Sunday of Lent A commentary of St Augustine on Psalm 60In Christ we suffered temptation, and in him we overcame the Devil Hear, O God, my petition, listen to my prayer. Who ...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the S...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son ...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to t...
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Sunday 6 March 2022 1st Sunday of Lent Compline (Night Prayer) ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.Amen. ________ Exami...
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Today's Meditation “Many Christians regard Confession in the light of an unimportant act of piety, if not mere ceremony . . . many go even frequently to Confession, but so few amend, and consequently derive little or no benefit from the Sacrament. … Be, then, most thoroughly convinced ...
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Jesus: Our High Priest So also, Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: "You are My Son, today I have begotten You." Hebrews 5:5 There were many priests in the Old Testament assigned to small groups of people. E...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily PrayerDear Lord Jesus, You are greater and higher than all leaders and rulers today... And He (Jesus) has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.Revelation 19:16 You have authority over all leaders, nations and governments... And ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Revelation 19:16 NKJV And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
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Saturday after Ash Wednesday Lectionary: 222 Reading I Is 58:9b-14 Thus says the LORD: If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; If you bestow your bread ...
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Saturday after Ash Wednesday listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk Lk 5:27-32): Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him....
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Saturday after Ash Wednesday From the treatise "Against the Heresies" by St IrenaeusThe friendship of God Our Lord, the Word of God, first drew men to God as servants, bu...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father an...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fathe...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father ...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday (First Vespers of tomorrow, 1st Sunday of Lent) Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. ...
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Saturday 5 March 2022 Saturday after Ash Wednesday Compline (Night Prayer) ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.Amen. ___...
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Touch The Untouched Friday, March 4, 2022 Paul said "I am determined to preach the Gospel where it has not been preached." The results are usually more dramatic where the Gospel has never been preached, rather than in places where the Gospel has already been heard. When you s...
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The Trinity: The Lord Is There (Jehovah Shammah) The city from that day shall be: THE LORD IS THERE (Jehovah Shammah). Ezekiel 48:35 The name Jehovah Shammah means the Lord Is There. The Lord is already in Heaven, where you will spend eternity. Ezekiel described th...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father God, Thank You for giving me the opportunity to live my life to the fullest through the price paid by Your Son Jesus on the cross. I want to cherish each day that I have with You here on earth. I...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Romans 12:12 NIV Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Psalms 138:3 NKJV In the day when I cried out, You answered me, and made me bold with strength in my soul. Psalms 56:4 NKJV In...
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Today's Meditation “Christian life is a retreat. We are ‘not of this world’, just as Jesus Christ is ‘not of this world’ (John 17:14). What is the world? It is, as St. John said, the ‘lust of the flesh’, that is, sensuality and corruption in our desires and...
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Friday after Ash Wednesday Lectionary: 221 Reading I Is 58:1-9a Thus says the Lord GOD: Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Tell my people their wick...
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Friday after Ash Wednesday listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 9:14-15): Then the disciples of John approached him and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast (much), but your disciples do not fast?” Jesus answered them, “Can...
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Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday (optional commemoration of Saint Casimir) Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Friday after Ash Wednesday A homily of Pseudo-ChrysostomPrayer is the light of the soul The highest good is prayer and conversation ...
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Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday (optional commemoration of Saint Casimir) Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make hast...
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Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday (optional commemoration of Saint Casimir) Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday (optional commemoration of Saint Casimir) Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, mak...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 4 March 2022 Friday after Ash Wednesday Compline (Night Prayer)(today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the S...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
Soak it up Thursday, March 3, 2022 Did you ever make tea? You put the tea bag in hot water and let it sit. It takes time. Believers treat God like fast food. You run in and have His presence and Word, and then run out. You put the tea bag in, you take it out, and then complai...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
Jesus: The Son of Mary Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us? Mark 6:3 Jesus is the Son of Mary, born as a human baby; yet Mary was a virgin. Jesus was born sinless, witho...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for calling me to follow You as Your disciple... My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. John 10:27 Thank You for adopting me into Your eternal famil...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day John 10:27 NKJV My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” R...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Thursday after Ash Wednesday Lectionary: 220 Reading I Dt 30:15-20 Moses said to the people: “Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom. If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, an...