2025-01-01 10:08 Ezekiel 17:22 "Thus says the Lord: I, too, will pluck from the crest of the cedar the highest branch. From the top a tender shoot I will break off and transplant on a high, lofty mountain." This comes...

2024-12-29 10:46 Acts 13:16 "So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: 'Men of Israel, and you that fear God, listen.'"   These are Paul's first words and actions in the synagogue at Antioch of...

2024-12-27 09:32 Revelation 2:12 "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.'"   This two-edged sword is referenced elsewhere, as well, see, for ex...

2024-12-24 10:04 Sirach 31:13 "Remember that a greedy eye is a bad thing. What has been created more greedy than the eye? Therefore it sheds tears from every face."   I never thought of my tears as being a sign of g...

2024-12-22 11:14 1 Samuel 2:1-10:   Hannah also prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord;     my strength is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies,     because I rejoice in thy salvation.  “There i...

2024-12-21 09:55 Luke 10:29 "But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, 'And who is my neighbor?'"   The "he" here is a lawyer (ha!) who has come to Jesus to ask Him what he must do to inherit etern...

2024-12-19 11:13 2 Maccabees 12:38 "Then Judas assembled his army and went to the city of Adullam. As the seventh day was coming on, they purified themselves according to the custom, and they kept the Sabbath there." ...

2024-12-18 09:21 Tobit 9:1-2 "Then Tobias called Raphael and said to him, "Brother Azarias, take a servant and two camels with you and go to Gabael at Rages in Media and get the money for me; and bring him to the wedd...

2024-12-16 14:23 Ecclesiastes 7:24 "That which is, is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?"   This seems like an appropriate verse for the day I visited the relics of St. Thomas Aquinas! He certainly p...

2024-12-15 11:01 Joel 3:4. "What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will requite your deed upon your own head swiftly ...