St. Maximilian Kolbe Archives

December 16, 2025December 5, 2025

The Root of Jesse, Day 8

Photo of a snail and an insect speaking Isaiah 11:8 about the baby playing by the viper's den. — “The Root of Jesse, Day 8”
Isaiah 11:8
©️2020 Gloria M. Chang

In the viper’s den, perfect love reigns—fear flees where Christ is victorious.

The baby shall play by the viper’s den,
and the child lay his hand on the adder’s lair.

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October 2, 2020October 30, 2022

Job in the Gulags

Icon of Old Testament Patriarch Job, Northern Russia, late 17th century.

26th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday (Year II)

Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5

WHY?

This infuriating question had Job and his friends entangled like a Gordian knot. Word after word and argument after argument submerged them deeper and deeper into the quicksand of “Why?”… Read the rest