Journey to Wholeness
… Read the restThe glory of the Lord entered the temple by the eastward gate,
and the house of God was filled with his splendor.
The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
2 Corinthians 9:10
The abundant life of grace mirrors the magnanimous fecundity of our Creator.… Read the rest
Fourth Week of Lent, Monday
John 4:43-54
Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine.
John 4:46
The Gospel of John calls special attention to Cana, the location of the first and second “signs” (sémeion) revealing Jesus as the Messiah to Israel.… Read the rest
First Week of Lent, Saturday
… Read the rest“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.
First Week of Lent, Thursday
… Read the rest“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 one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
… Read the restThen the Lord said to Moses: I am going to rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather their daily portion; thus will I test them, to see whether they follow my instructions or not. On
… Read the restBut during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath of complete rest, a sabbath for the Lord, when you may neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. The aftergrowth of your harvest you shall not reap, nor shall you pick the grapes of your untrimmed vines.
Saturday of the Third Week of Easter
John 6:60-69
… Read the restThen many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
Thursday of the Third Week of Easter
John 6:44-51
… Read the restThe Jews murmured about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,” and they said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph?
First Sunday of Lent
Genesis 9:8-15; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15
Lent recalls the forty days of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness, and the forty days of cosmic cleansing in the time of Noah’s Flood. … Read the rest