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The popularity of social networking reveals our hunger to connect with one another, yet many people still feel lonely. In fact, even at home, work, or church, people sometimes feel they’re in a gathering of strangers. The degree to which we are known is, in part, our own responsibility. Instea...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 365 Reading I 2 Cor 6:1-10 Brothers and sisters: As your fellow workers, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says: In an acceptable time I heard you, &nbs...
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Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 5,38-42): Jesus said to his disciples, «You have heard that it was said: An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I tell you this: do not oppose evil ...
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Monday 14 June 2021 Monday of week 11 in Ordinary Time 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 Fathe...
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Monday 14 June 2021 Monday of week 11 in Ordinary Time 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 Fathe...
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Monday 14 June 2021 Monday of week 11 in Ordinary Time 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 F...
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Monday 14 June 2021 Monday of week 11 in Ordinary Time 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 Fat...
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Monday 14 June 2021 Monday of week 11 in Ordinary Time 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 an...
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Monday 14 June 2021 Monday of week 11 in Ordinary Time 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...
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Monday 14 June 2021 Monday of week 11 in Ordinary Time 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...
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Monday 14 June 2021 Monday of week 11 in Ordinary Time 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...
Posted by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.
Some Christians mistakenly think the soul is all that matters and the physical body only gets in the way. But when God created the human body, He called it good (Gen. 1:31). Perhaps the confusion stems from what Paul meant when comparing the “flesh” with the “Spirit”...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
Jesus: The Deliverance of Zion And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the remnant whom the LORD calls. Joel 2:32 ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Lord God, Thank You for all of Your mercies that are new every morning... Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. | They are new every morning; Great is Your fai...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23
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Dear Friends, sometimes there are times when one day is like the other and yet our earth keeps on turning. With every new moment something comes into being or happens that has never existed in this form before. To be aware of this can already move us to appreciate each ne...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Saint of the Day St. Anthony of Padua St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was born in Lisbon, Portugal to a powerful yet pious family. At age 15 he relinquished a life of nobility, wealth, and honor, and chose instead to serve God with the Augustinians. Y...
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Verse of the Day "But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification, and its end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Rom...
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Meditation of the Day "It does indeed produce an entire change in the whole conception of the Christian life when one passes from under the law of prohibitions to live under the benign influences of the law of the Beatitudes. One ceases merely to strive against particu...
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Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 92 Reading I Ez 17:22-24 Thus says the Lord GOD: I, too, will take from the crest of the cedar, from its topmost branches tear off a tender shoot, and plant it on a high and lofty mountain; ...
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Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mk 4,26-34): Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night an...
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Sunday 13 June 2021 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time St Cyprian's treatise on the Lord's PrayerPrayer comes from a humble heart Let our speech and our petition be kept under discipline when we pra...
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Sunday 13 June 2021 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time 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 ...
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Sunday 13 June 2021 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time 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 ...
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Sunday 13 June 2021 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time 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 an...
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Sunday 13 June 2021 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time 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 t...
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Sunday 13 June 2021 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time 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 t...
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Sunday 13 June 2021 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time 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 Fathe...
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Sunday 13 June 2021 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time 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. Allelu...
Posted by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.
Hope is essential for life in a fallen world. Unless we believe something better awaits us in the future, we might sink into utter despair. But optimistic anticipation can also bring disappointment when we look forward to something that doesn’t materialize. So how do we determine where to plac...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Saint of the Day Pope St. Leo III Pope St. Leo III (d. 816 A.D.) was a Roman cardinal who was unanimously elected pope on the same day his predecessor was buried. He lived during a time of tension between the popes and emperors and their respective right...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
Jesus: The Consolation of Israel And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. Luke 2:25 Jesus was the Consolation of Israel....
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Verse of the Day "For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God? This God is my strong refuge, and has made[a] my way safe. He made my feet like hinds’ feet, and set me secure on the heights. He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Today’s Feast Day Immaculate Heart of Mary The feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary takes place on the day following the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. This devotion honors Mary's perfect purity of heart in virtue of her Immacul...
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Meditation of the Day "To love God’s will in consolations is a good love when it is truly God’s will we love and not the consolation wherein it lies. Still, it is a love without opposition, repugnance, or effort. Who would not love so worthy a will in so ag...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father God, You know my mind, my heart and my heartaches. You have showered me with blessings and carried me through many valleys of pain and sadness. Thank You for the godly influences of special peopl...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23:4
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Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Lectionary: 364/573 Reading I 2 Cor 5:14-21 Brothers and sisters: The love of Christ impels us, once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died. He indeed died for all, so that those ...
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Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 2,41-51): Each year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. Aft...
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Saturday 12 June 2021 The Immaculate Heart of Mary on Saturday of week 10 in Ordinary Time Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: The Immaculate Heart of Mary A sermon of St Laurence JustinianMary kept all these things in her heart As Mary pondered all she had...
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Saturday 12 June 2021 The Immaculate Heart of Mary on Saturday of week 10 in Ordinary Time 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 ha...
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Saturday 12 June 2021 The Immaculate Heart of Mary on Saturday of week 10 in Ordinary Time 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, mak...
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Saturday 12 June 2021 Saturday of week 10 in Ordinary Time 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...
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Saturday 12 June 2021 Saturday of week 10 in Ordinary Time 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 Fathe...
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Saturday 12 June 2021 Saturday of week 10 in Ordinary Time 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 Fa...
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Saturday 12 June 2021 The Immaculate Heart of Mary on Saturday of week 10 in Ordinary Time (First Vespers of tomorrow, 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time) Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the I...
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Saturday 12 June 2021 Saturday of week 10 in Ordinary Time 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.Am...
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Changing Your Brain Friday, June 11, 2021 When a baby is born, his or her brain contains 100 billion neurons. Then the brain begins forming trillions of neural connections depending on the flood of information going on within it. The end result is that every brain is differen...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
Jesus: A Good Man And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people. John 7:12 As the Feast of Tabernacles approached, Jesus was the main topic of discussion. The pe...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father God, You are my Creator and I am blessed and amazed to read this beautiful Bible passage about my Savior Jesus... In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the ...
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Saint of the Day St. Barnabas St. Barnabas (1st c.) was a Jew from the island of Cyprus who was given the name Joseph at birth. He is mentioned by name in the New Testament. A convert to the Christian faith in Jerusalem, he sold his property and preach...
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Verse of the Day "How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to thy word. With my whole heart I seek thee; let me not wander from thy commandments! I have laid up thy word in my heart, that I might not sin against thee." Psalm 119:9-11 ...
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Today’s Feast Day Sacred Heart of Jesus The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is celebrated on the octave day of the feast of Corpus Christi. In the 17th century Jesus appeared in a vision to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque asking her to reque...
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Meditation of the Day "My God, you know infinitely better than I how little I love you. I would not love you at all except for your grace. It is your grace that has opened the eyes of my mind and enabled them to see your glory. It is your grace that has touched my hear...
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Clinging to hope is difficult when circumstances are miserable and show no signs of improving. This can be especially discouraging when we know that our all-powerful God could remedy the situation and fulfill our dreams but hasn’t. This is probably how Hannah felt. She was heartbroken...
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Get Daily Readings E-mails Solemnity of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Lectionary: 171 Reading I Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9 Thus says the LORD: When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called my so...
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Solemnity of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (B) listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Jn 19,31-37): Since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, ...
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Friday 11 June 2021 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus - Solemnity Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus A reading from the works of St BonaventureWith you is the source of life You who have been redeemed, consider who it is wh...
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Friday 11 June 2021 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus - Solemnity 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...
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Friday 11 June 2021 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus - Solemnity 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.Glor...
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Friday 11 June 2021 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus - Solemnity 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 ...
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Friday 11 June 2021 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus - Solemnity 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 ...
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Friday 11 June 2021 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus - Solemnity 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 ...
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Friday 11 June 2021 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus - Solemnity 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.Gl...
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Friday 11 June 2021 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus - Solemnity 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 witho...
Posted by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.
Many people deal with anxiety. News reports or circumstances at home often cause concern and fear about our future. But as believers, we’re encouraged not to worry (Luke 12:22). Instead, we’re to seek God’s kingdom and rely on Him to provide all our needs (Luke 12:31). This is the ...
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Seeing in The Womb Thursday, June 10, 2021 When you were in the womb you had eyes and yet there was nothing to see. Your eyes were made to focus on distant objects. Your eyes had rods and cones to distinguish shades, tones and colors, yet you were in total darkness. But you h...
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Jesus: The Lawgiver There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another? James 4:12 The Lord Jesus is the Lawgiver; He runs the world through natural laws such as the law of gravity. No one can break these laws without suffe...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father in Heaven, Thank you for giving us Your laws to keep us on track, to keep us safe, to help our lives to be more orderly, secure and happy…and to protect us. Please help me to focus on Jesus: The Lawgiver t...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Psalm 16:11
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Saint of the Day St. Olivia of Palermo St. Olivia (448 – 463 A.D.) was the beautiful daughter of a noble family living near Palermo on the island of Sicily. She desired to serve God through her life as a consecrated virgin, and gave her wealth to...
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Verse of the Day "And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be ...
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Thursday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 362 Reading I 2 Cor 3:15—4:1, 3-6 Brothers and sisters: To this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over the hearts of the children of Israel, but whenever a person turns to the Lord the veil i...
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Thursday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 5,20-26): Jesus said to the crowds, «I tell you, then, that if you are not righteous in a much broader way than the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees, yo...
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I'm making this post for Pastor Sean Condran (PLEASE SHARE THIS POST)..... My name is Debbie Hershey and I'm a board member at Pastor Sean Condran Office and Radio Station Manager at Pastor Sean Condran Office Radio Station, I would like to please ask you to be a sponsor today. ...
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The Death of God Miracle Wednesday, June 9, 2021 In the Book of Acts, Simon Peter, speaking to the Sanhedrin says this: 'you ... put to death the Prince of Life.' How is it possible to put to death the Prince of Life? You can't kill the Prince of Life... unless He lets you. B...
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Jesus: The Life Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.' John 14:6 Jesus is the Life; He is the source of life. He embedded the world with His life when He created it (Colossians 1:16)...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You that Jesus paid the price to save me and to give me eternal life with You... For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. ...
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What is the priority of your life—the one thing around which everything else revolves? Jesus tells us that God’s kingdom and righteousness should be our highest aim. This isn’t achieved through passivity; Matthew 6:33 uses the word “seek,” which implies activity and per...
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Yesterday afternoon, in glorious weather, I sat on our "sun deck", that is our sun terrace with a great view across the neighboring gardens as well. I enjoyed East Frisian tea and to the singing of the birds and the articles to be read in a magazine of our archdiocese (Cologne) I ...
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Saint of the Day Blessed Anna Maria Taigi Bl. Anna Maria Taigi (1769-1837) was born in Siena, Italy, to a poor working class family. Her family later moved to Rome, and Anna took on various low-skill jobs to help with the family finances. She married a...
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Verse of the Day "To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is st...
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Wednesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 361 Reading I 2 Cor 3:4-11 Brothers and sisters: Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that of ourselves we are qualified to take credit for anything as coming from us; rather, our quali...
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Wednesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 5,17-19): Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I...
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Wednesday 9 June 2021 Wednesday of week 10 in Ordinary Time or Saint Ephraem, Deacon, Doctor Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Wednesday of week 10 in Ordinary Time A sermon by OrigenThe crossing of the Jordan The ark of the covenant led the people ...
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Wednesday 9 June 2021 Wednesday of week 10 in Ordinary Time or Saint Ephraem, Deacon, Doctor 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,...
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Wednesday 9 June 2021 Wednesday of week 10 in Ordinary Time or Saint Ephraem, Deacon, Doctor 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 L...
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Wednesday 9 June 2021 Wednesday of week 10 in Ordinary Time 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 th...
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Wednesday 9 June 2021 Wednesday of week 10 in Ordinary Time 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 Fath...
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Wednesday 9 June 2021 Wednesday of week 10 in Ordinary Time 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 F...
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Wednesday 9 June 2021 Wednesday of week 10 in Ordinary Time or Saint Ephraem, Deacon, Doctor 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...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Wednesday 9 June 2021 Wednesday of week 10 in Ordinary Time 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 Fathe...
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Mercy Like a Womb Tuesday, June 8, 2021 The word that expresses having mercy in Hebrew is 'racham,' and the word for the womb in Hebrew is 'rechem.' They're virtually identical. Why? Mercy in Hebrew means tenderness, compassion, as one would have on the weak, and as one would...
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The Holy Spirit: The Breath of God's Nostrils The foundations of the world were uncovered at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils. Psalm 18:15 The Holy Spirit is the Breath of God’s Nostrils. When God breathes judgment, the H...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Heavenly Father, I pray that I will always have a testimony that points to You. Help me to live as if today were my last before entering eternity, for I know not what tomorrow may bring. (Proverbs 27:1) ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Help me to live as if today were my last before entering eternity, for I know not what tomorrow may bring. (Proverbs 27:1)
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Saint of the Day St. William of York St. William of York (d. 1154) was born to a powerful family in England, the nephew of the king. He became a priest and then treasurer of York Minster Cathedral at the time when the English crown was contested by two g...
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Verse of the Day "So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone. Through him the ...