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Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Jn 10,22-30): The feast of the Dedication was then taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter. And Jesus walked about in the temple area on the Portico of Solomon. So the Jews...
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Tuesday 27 April 2021 Tuesday of the 4th week of Eastertide Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Tuesday of the 4th week of Eastertide From a sermon by Saint Peter Chrysologus, bishopEach one of us is called to be both a sacrifice to God and his priest I app...
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Tuesday 27 April 2021 Tuesday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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 ...
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Tuesday 27 April 2021 Tuesday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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 ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Tuesday 27 April 2021 Tuesday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Tuesday 27 April 2021 Tuesday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Tuesday 27 April 2021 Tuesday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Tuesday 27 April 2021 Tuesday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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 t...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Tuesday 27 April 2021 Tuesday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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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Be Grateful in All Things Life can be full of surprises, you can be going on your way, and God sends you a surprise. Something that you ask for, except; it is not in the package that you expected it to be. If you are not careful you will miss it, the answer to your prayers...
Posted by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.
What’s the biggest mistake you’ve ever made? Many people may not recognize their greatest error until after death, when their expectation of life in heaven is replaced by the horrible reality that they are denied entrance for rejecting Christ. Nicodemus was a man who had built h...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
The Hard Lesson of the French Revolution Monday, April 26, 2021 In the late 18th century, France was overthrown by a revolutionary government, proclaiming there was no God and declared France atheistic. Soon afterwards, the government realized that man cannot exist without Go...
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Jesus: The Son of God But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name. John 20:31 Jesus is the Son of God, the second Person of the Godhead. That the description &l...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father in Heaven, You have given to every follower of Jesus a great mission for Your kingdom. I know that You have called me for Your mission. I pray that each day, I will seek You and follow Your guid...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day 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, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the en...
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Saint of the Day Sts. Cletus & Marcellinus St. Cletus (1st c.) and St. Marcellinus (3rd c.) were both Romans, popes, and martyrs who ruled the Holy See during the terrible persecution of Christians at the hands of the Roman Empire. St. Cletus was a conve...
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Verse of the Day "As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, s...
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Meditation of the Day "Everything that exists is a gift from God. Yet oftentimes we look to the things and creatures created by God for a satisfaction and fulfillment that only God Himself can provide. When the soul wraps itself around the things and the people of this...
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Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter Lectionary: 279 Reading I Acts 11:1-18 The Apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem the circumcised believers confronted h...
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Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Jn 10,1-10): Jesus said: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber. But whoever e...
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Monday 26 April 2021 Monday of the 4th week of Eastertide Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Monday of the 4th week of Eastertide St Basil the Great on the Holy SpiritThe Spirit gives life For this cause the Lord, who gives us our life, gave us the covenan...
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Monday 26 April 2021 Monday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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 Fa...
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Monday 26 April 2021 Monday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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 th...
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Monday 26 April 2021 Monday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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 ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Monday 26 April 2021 Monday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Monday 26 April 2021 Monday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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 Fat...
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Monday 26 April 2021 Monday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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 ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Monday 26 April 2021 Monday of the 4th week of Eastertide 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 ...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
Jesus: The Son of the Father Grace, mercy, and peace will be with you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 2 John 3 Jesus is the Son of the Father, sent by the Father to save a sinful world. He ...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer (this prayer is based upon Psalm 8) O Lord, my Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth. You have set Your glory in the heavens. When I look at Your heavens, at the work of Your f...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Grace, mercy, and peace will be with you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 2 John 3
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A crowd came together at Mount Carmel to watch a showdown between 450 prophets of Baal—the prominent false god of the time—and Elijah, the one prophet speaking for the true God. (See 1 Kings 18.) Elijah was used to standing up to the powerful, and this occasion would be no different. &n...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Saint of the Day St. Mark St. Mark the Evangelist (1st c.) was born to Jewish parents living in Libya in North Africa, later settling in Cana of Galilee not far from Jerusalem. Mark became one of the 70 disciples of Jesus and the author of the Gospel t...
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Verse of the Day "The way of the righteous is level; thou dost make smooth the path of the righteous. In the path of thy judgments, O Lord, we wait for thee; thy memorial name is the desire of our soul. My soul yearns for thee in the night, my spirit within me earnestl...
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Today’s Feast Day Good Shepherd Sunday The Fourth Sunday of Easter is known as “Good Shepherd Sunday” because the Mass reading is taken from the Gospel of John, where Jesus uses the imagery of a shepherd guiding and guarding his flock to descr...
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Meditation of the Day "No one can fail to understand that the Divine Eucharist bestows upon the Christian people an incomparable dignity. Not only while the Sacrifice is offered and the Sacrament is received, but as long as the Eucharist is kept in our churches and ora...
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Fourth Sunday of Easter Lectionary: 50 Reading I Acts 4:8-12 Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said: “Leaders of the people and elders: If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a cripple, namely, by what means he was saved, then all of ...
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Fourth Sunday of Easter listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Jn 10,11-18): Jesus said: “I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf...
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Sunday 25 April 2021 4th Sunday of Easter Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 4th Sunday of Easter From a homily on the Gospels by Saint Gregory the Great, popeChrist the Good Shepherd I am the good shepherd. I know my own – by which I mean, I lo...
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Sunday 25 April 2021 4th Sunday of Easter 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 ...
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Sunday 25 April 2021 4th Sunday of Easter 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 ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Sunday 25 April 2021 4th Sunday of Easter 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 th...
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Sunday 25 April 2021 4th Sunday of Easter 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 ...
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Sunday 25 April 2021 4th Sunday of Easter 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 S...
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Sunday 25 April 2021 4th Sunday of Easter 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 t...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Sunday 25 April 2021 4th Sunday of Easter 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. Alleluia. __...
Posted by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.
On Palm Sunday, Jesus entered the Court of Gentiles (the only area that non-Jews could enter) and pushed through the hordes of customers haggling with merchants over livestock and doves used for sacrifices. Other pilgrims crowded around money changers’ tables, protesting unfair rates of exchan...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
The Holy Spirit: The Breath of Life The breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. Revelation 11:11 The Holy Spirit is the Breath of Life. When God breathed into the nostrils of Adam, the Holy...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Heavenly Father, You breathed the breath of life into me as you have with all people who have ever lived... And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of l...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. Genesis 2:7 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in beli...
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Saint of the Day St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577-1622) was born with the name Mark Rey in what is today Germany. He studied and taught law and became known for his charity, austerities, and great devotion to God. He gained a...
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Verse of the Day "My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver...
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Saturday of the Third Week of Easter Lectionary: 278 Reading I Acts 9:31-42 The Church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace. She was being built up and walked in the fear of the Lord, and with the consolation of the Holy Spirit she gre...
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Saturday of the Third Week of Easter listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Jn 6,60-69): After hearing his doctrine, many of Jesus' followers said, «This language is very hard! Who can accept it?». Jesus was aware that his disciples were...
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Saturday 24 April 2021 Saturday of the 3rd week of Eastertide or Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest, Martyr Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Saturday of the 3rd week of Eastertide From a commentary on the gospel of John by Saint Cyril of Alexandri...
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Saturday 24 April 2021 Saturday of the 3rd week of Eastertide or Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest, Martyr 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...
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Saturday 24 April 2021 Saturday of the 3rd week of Eastertide or Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest, Martyr 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, com...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Saturday 24 April 2021 Saturday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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 ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Saturday 24 April 2021 Saturday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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 Fa...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Saturday 24 April 2021 Saturday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Saturday 24 April 2021 Saturday of the 3rd week of Eastertide or Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest, Martyr (First Vespers of tomorrow, 4th Sunday of Easter) Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the v...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Saturday 24 April 2021 Saturday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
Learning from the Haredim Friday, April 23, 2021 In Israel there are healthy young men who live off of public assistance, not because they can't find a job, but because they devote their life to studying the Torah. The ultra-Orthodox Haredim do little else but study, at the e...
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Jesus: The Son of the Living God Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Matthew 16:16 Jesus is the Son of the Living God. All false gods have no life in them. False gods don’t think or love; nor do they answer th...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father God, Without Jesus I was lost. With Jesus as my Lord and Savior I am a Your child and You are my loving heavenly Father, my Good Shepherd and my King. You have given me life eternal and I am able...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Matthew 16:16
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Saint of the Day St. George St. George (d. 303 A.D.) was born in Palestine to noble Christian parents. Like his father, he enlisted as a soldier in the Roman army serving under Emperor Diocletian. He was renowned for his bravery and outstanding militar...
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Verse of the Day "But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord ha...
Posted by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.
Have you ever suddenly awoken in the middle of the night with a heavy burden on your heart? Sometimes this kind of weight is from the Lord and will be lifted when He has accomplished His purpose—for example, an impulse to pray or a strong motivation to do God’s will. Other burdens are ca...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday of the Third Week of Easter Lectionary: 277 Reading I Acts 9:1-20 Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, that, if he should find any men...
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Friday of the Third Week of Easter listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Jn 6,52-59): The Jews were arguing among themselves, «How can this man give us flesh to eat?». So Jesus replied, «Truly, I say to you, if you do not eat the ...
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Friday 23 April 2021 Friday of the 3rd week of Eastertide or Saint George, Martyr or Saint Adalbert of Prague, Bishop, Martyr Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Friday of the 3rd week of Eastertide From a sermon by Saint Ephraem, deaconThe cross...
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Friday 23 April 2021 Friday of the 3rd week of Eastertide or Saint George, Martyr or Saint Adalbert of Prague, Bishop, Martyr Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm in...
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Friday 23 April 2021 Friday of the 3rd week of Eastertide or Saint George, Martyr or Saint Adalbert of Prague, Bishop, Martyr Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psal...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 23 April 2021 Friday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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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Friday 23 April 2021 Friday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 23 April 2021 Friday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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 Fat...
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Friday 23 April 2021 Friday of the 3rd week of Eastertide or Saint George, Martyr or Saint Adalbert of Prague, Bishop, Martyr Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Ps...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 23 April 2021 Friday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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 ...
Posted by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.
Perhaps you have personally seen the power of trusting God’s promises. You have been successful living by faith and wondering, how can I help others experience this? As a Minister, what can I do to help grow the body of Christ? To answer that, here are a few recommendations to help you succeed...
Posted by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.
Life’s “Goliaths” come in all shapes, sizes, and intensities—such as an unhappy relationship, a rebellious child, a difficult job, a pile of debt, or an uncontrollable habit. But if we avail ourselves of God’s power, then we, like David, can ultimately gain victory over...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
The Sprouters Thursday, April 22, 2021 In the book of Zechariah, Messiah is called the 'Branch.' When the Rabbis translated this prophecy into Greek, they rendered the word Branch as Anot-Ol-ay, the same word that is translated as Sunrise or Dayspring in the New Testament. Ho...
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Jesus: The Son Who Is Consecrated For Evermore For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. Hebrews 7:28 As an Intercessor, Jesus doesn&rs...
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Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Lord God, Thank You for loving me so much that You sent Jesus to rescue me from my sins and from death. Thank You that Jesus is my Savior and Intercessor, praying for me and standing in my place before You when I sin an...
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Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you." Matthew 7:7 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus 1 Timothy 2...
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Saint of the Day Pope St. Soter Pope St. Soter (c. 174-175 A.D.) was born in Fondi, Italy. Nothing is known of his early life. He served as the 12th bishop of Rome from c.167 to 175 A.D. He was praised for his fatherly tenderness in comforting, both with...
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Verse of the Day "Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father. But whoever denies me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father." Matthew 10:32-33
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Thursday of the Third Week of Easter Lectionary: 276 Reading I Acts 8:26-40 The angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, “Get up and head south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route.” So he got up and set out. No...
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Thursday of the Third Week of Easter listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Jn 6,44-51): Jesus addressed the crowd, «No one can come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise him up on the last day. It has been writt...
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Thursday 22 April 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Eastertide Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Thursday of the 3rd week of Eastertide From the treatise "Against the Heresies" by St IrenaeusThe Eucharist, pledge of our resurrection If our flesh is not sav...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Thursday 22 April 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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 th...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Thursday 22 April 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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 t...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Thursday 22 April 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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 ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Thursday 22 April 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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 Fa...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Thursday 22 April 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Thursday 22 April 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Thursday 22 April 2021 Thursday of the 3rd week of Eastertide 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 Fat...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
The View from His HeartWednesday, April 21, 2021 They were bed-ridden and deathly ill in a prison hospital. One of the prisoners would lie in bed going on about the beautiful things he saw outside the window. Some of the other prisoners just closed their eyes and took it in. Others were envious. On...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
The Father: One Father Then they said to Him (Jesus), "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.” John 8:41 There is One Father—the God of the universe. No other god can compare to Him. He created all things; idols cannot make a...
Posted by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM
Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father-God, You are my Heavenly Father, You created me, You saved me and You made me Your child. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who we...