2022-06-29 06:58 Ezekiel 1:10-12. Ezekiel is describing the four living creatures he saw appear with a cloud of fire. They each have four faces, and here he describes those. In the front they have the face of a man, o...

2022-06-28 13:36 2 Samuel 2:24-28. Joab and Abishai, who are loyal to David, are pursuing Abner, who was loyal to Saul and believes Saul's son is the rightful king of Israel. Abner comes to the hill of Ammah and t...

2022-06-27 06:06 Sirach 37:23-26. Sirach discusses some of the gifts of wisdom. "A wise man will instruct his own people, and the fruits of his understanding will be trustworthy. A wise man will have praise heaped upo...

2022-06-26 10:50 Luke 11:29-32. As the crowd increased around Jesus, he said "This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign shall be given except the sign of Jonah." The Son of Man will be a sign...

2022-06-25 06:41 Matthew 22:15-22. After plotting a way to trap Jesus in his words, the Pharisees come to him and say "Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God truthfully ... Tell us, then ... Is i...

2022-06-24 09:37 1 Maccabees 1:11-15. In those days (the days after the death of Alexander the Great when Antiochus Epiphanes became king over the Jews), lawless men of Israel convinced many that they would be better ...

2022-06-23 17:12 Psalm 135:8-12. The Lord is great, above all other gods. It was he who smote the firstborn of Egypt and sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all of Egypt in order to free his people. It was he w...

2022-06-20 09:02 2 Chronicles 22:5-6. Ahaziah is king of Judah, and "he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord." Following his evil counselors' advice, he and Jehoram, also known as Joram, the king of Israel a...

2022-06-19 09:54 Daniel 14:6-9. The king of Babylon is having a discussion with Daniel about the divinity of the Babylonian God, Bel. The king insists Bel must be a "living god" because every night huge amounts of foo...

2022-06-17 07:36 2 Corinthians 12:7-10. This is not random, it was the Breviary reading for morning prayer this morning. It is one of my favorite readings with one of my favorite lines "My grace is sufficient for you,...