Friday, 8 December 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
A woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, ‘Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!’ But he said, ‘Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!’...
View ArticleFriday, 8 December 2017 : Letter to the Hebrews 7,11-17.
If perfection had been attainable through the levitical priesthood for the people received the law under this priesthood what further need would there have been to speak of another priest arising...
View ArticleSaturday, 9 December 2017 : Commentary Julian of Norwich
God showed me a lord sitting in state, in rest and peace. The lord sends his servant to a certain place to do his will. Not only does the servant go but he dashes off and runs at great speed, loving to...
View ArticleSaturday, 9 December 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
After this Jesus went out and saw a tax-collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up, left everything, and followed him. Then Levi gave a great banquet...
View ArticleSaturday, 9 December 2017 : Letter to the Ephesians 4,1-7.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,...
View ArticleSunday, 10 December 2017 : Commentary Saint Bede the Venerable
The fact that John's birth is commemorated when the days begin to shorten and the Savior's when they begin to lengthen indicates a symbolic meaning. And indeed, John himself disclosed the hidden...
View ArticleSunday, 10 December 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbours and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day they...
View ArticleSunday, 10 December 2017 : Letter to the Galatians 4,21-31.5,1.
Tell me, you who desire to be subject to the law, will you not listen to the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and the other by a free woman. One, the child of the...
View ArticleMonday, 11 December 2017 : Commentary Saint Augustine
The greatest of men was sent to bear witness to Him who was more than a man. For when he who is “from among those born of women the greatest” (Mt 11,11) said: “I am not the Christ” (Jn 1,20) and abased...
View ArticleMonday, 11 December 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
John's father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke this prophecy: ‘Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has looked favourably on his people and redeemed them. He has raised up a...
View ArticleMonday, 11 December 2017 : Letter to the Romans 9,1-5.
I am speaking the truth in Christ I am not lying; my conscience confirms it by the Holy Spirit I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and...
View ArticleTuesday, 12 December 2017 : Commentary Origen
Joshua crossed the Jordan to attack Jericho. But Saint Paul teaches: “Our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the unseen powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil...
View ArticleTuesday, 12 December 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. From the days of John the Baptist until now the...
View ArticleTuesday, 12 December 2017 : Letter to the Romans 9,6-13.
It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all Israelites truly belong to Israel, and not all of Abraham’s children are his true descendants; but ‘It is through Isaac that descendants...
View ArticleWednesday, 13 December 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, ‘Tell no one about the vision until after the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.’ And the disciples asked him, ‘Why, then, do the...
View ArticleWednesday, 13 December 2017 : Letter to the Romans 9,14-18.
What then are we to say? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! For he says to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.’ So it...
View ArticleWednesday, 13 December 2017 : Commentary Saint Ephrem
“Then the Lord passed by. A strong, heavy wind rent the mountains and crushed rocks before the Lord – but the Lord was not in the wind” (1Kgs 19,11). After the great storm there were earthquakes and...
View ArticleThursday, 14 December 2017 : Commentary Saint Ephrem
When they came to him they were fishers of fish and then they became fishers of men! As it is written: “Look, I will send many catchers of men, and they will catch them on every mountain and high hill”...
View ArticleThursday, 14 December 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the lake for they were fishermen. And he said to them, ‘Follow me, and I...
View ArticleThursday, 14 December 2017 : Letter to the Romans 12,1-8.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to...
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