Journey to Wholeness
… Read the restThen Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry.
… Read the restAfter six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.”
Friday After Epiphany
1 John 5:5-13
… Read the restWho indeed is the victor over the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is the one who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by water alone, but by water and blood.
Panel 1: Andreas Pavias, The Crucifixion, detail, 15th century (National Gallery of Athens)
Panel 2: Andreas Pavias, The Crucifixion
Panel 3: Andreas Pavias, The Crucifixion, detail
Panel 4: Russian Icon of the Crucifixion, late 16th century (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
32nd Week in Ordinary Time, Friday (Year II)
Luke 17:26-37
“Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather” (Luke 17:37).… Read the rest
11th Week in Ordinary Time, Monday (Year II)
I Kings 21:1-16, Matthew 5:38-42
Humans are the oddest creatures on the planet. The account of Naboth’s stoning is odd from beginning to end.
King Ahab tried to strike a deal with his neighbor Naboth to acquire his vineyard, which was next to his palace.… Read the rest
