From today’s Gospel Reading (17th Sunday in Ordinary Time) is an important testimony to a loving God for those enduring trouble and pain: Luke 11:9-10 “And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the …
Recently I wrote a post about whether God will ever give you more than you can handle. You can read it here . I knew of other scriptural passages that are related, and is sometimes used to support the notion that He never will. I recently found them: Matthew 12:20 A bruised reed he will …
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This post may not make much sense, but I’ll write it anyway. Today has been so far, a lousy day. Details are unimportant. At any rate, in the past few years I’ve learned that everything happens for a reason, even though that reason may elude our attempts to discern it right away. I think I …
In my spiritual development (or “spiritual progress” as they like to say in AA) I have found that there is a very useful method by which one can come to terms with Church teaching and also discerning the meaning of the Bible. That method is to shift one’s perspective. In what way? To view things …
Today’s Office of Readings during Morning Prayer in the Liturgy of the Hours had this interesting passage from the beginning of Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians: 2 Cor 1:8-11 We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction that came to us in the province of Asia; we were utterly weighed …
While praying the Liturgy of the Hours recently a line from a Psalm popped out at me and demanded attention: Psalm 107:17-20 Some fell sick from their wicked ways, afflicted because of their sinsThey loathed all manner of food; they were at the gates of death.In their distress they cried to the LORD, who saved …
I was in Holy Hour last night and chanced upon a passage from Genesis: Genesis 4:6-7 So the LORD said to Cain: “Why are you so resentful and crestfallen? If you do well, you can hold up your head; but if not, sin is a demon lurking at the door: his urge is toward you, …
Does God give you more than you can handle? Does it seem like you are burdened with “life” to the breaking point? Does God permit this to happen, that the trials and tribulations of daily living may seem beyond your ability to cope? No. While God permits evil to occur (so that good can be …
Last Friday night I went to my weekly Holy Hour. What’s a Holy Hour? See here. Anyway, while in my Holy Hour I chanced upon this passage from The Second Letter of Peter: 2 Peter 1:5-8 …make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, virtue with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance …
The Second Reading from today’s Mass is from St. Paul’s Letter to the Colossians: Col 1:15-20 Christ Jesus is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn of all creation.For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth,the visible and the invisible,whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers;all things were created through …