Sunday, 18 February 2018 : Commentary Rabanus Maurus
You must never fail to trust in God nor despair of his mercy; I should not like you to doubt or despair of becoming better. For even if the devil were able to throw you down from the heights of virtue...
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In the morning, while it was still very dark, Jesus got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed. And Simon and his companions hunted for him. When they found him, they said to him,...
View ArticleSunday, 18 February 2018 : Letter to the Romans 6,12-23.
Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as...
View ArticleMonday, 19 February 2018 : Commentary Saint John Cassian
We see some people who disdain very great riches in this world-and not only large sums of gold and silver but also magnificent properties-being disturbed over a penknife, a stylus, a needle, or a...
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‘The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is...
View ArticleMonday, 19 February 2018 : First Letter to the Thessalonians 3,6-13.
But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love. He has told us also that you always remember us kindly and long to see us just as we long to see...
View ArticleTuesday, 20 February 2018 : Commentary Saint Peter Chrysologus
If by God's will you are a father... then this is so that, in giving life yourself, you might also know what it means to feel a father's love and thus, just as you feel affectionately towards your own...
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‘Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgement you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s...
View ArticleTuesday, 20 February 2018 : Letter to the Galatians 2,11-17.
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood self-condemned; for until certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But after they came, he drew...
View ArticleWednesday, 21 February 2018 : Commentary Saint Ephrem
After all the signs our Lord had given these blind men, who could see nothing, said to him: “We wish to see a sign from you”. Our Lord left aside his witnesses, the kings and prophets, and appealed to...
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Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.’ But he answered them, ‘An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it...
View ArticleWednesday, 21 February 2018 : Letter to the Romans 3,19-27.
Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For ‘no human being will be...
View ArticleThursday, 22 February 2018 : Commentary Saint Theodore the Studite
In my view it was to Mary that the blessed prophet Joel was speaking when he exclaimed: “Fear not, O land! Exult and rejoice! For the Lord has done great things in you” (2,21). For Mary is a land:...
View ArticleThursday, 22 February 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: ‘A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the...
View ArticleThursday, 22 February 2018 : Letter to the Philippians 4,4-10.
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with...
View ArticleFriday, 23 February 2018 : Commentary Byzantine and Eastern liturgies for the...
O Lord and Master of my life, give me not a spirit of sloth, vain curiosity, lust for power and idle talk. (Prostration) But give to me, Thy servant, a spirit of soberness, humility, patience and love....
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‘For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves. When he began the reckoning, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him;...
View ArticleFriday, 23 February 2018 : Letter to the Romans 1,18-25.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of those who by their wickedness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God...
View ArticleSaturday, 24 February 2018 : Commentary Blessed John Henry Newman
Once only in the year, yet once, does the world which we see show forth its hidden powers, and in a manner manifest itself. Then the leaves come out, and the blossoms on the fruit trees, and flowers;...
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And when evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city. In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. Then Peter remembered and said to him, ‘Rabbi,...
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