“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God.”
The beatitude above, which is found in Chapter Five of Matthew’s Gospel, is the first o...
That Nicodemus, see him searching
through the darker night to find the
Good Teacher. He didn’t get very
far, that Nicodemus, indeed he didn’t
even ask a quest...
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth. He will not let y...
, “Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for, I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven. What do...
God, I want to pray and tell you that Lent is too hard, that fasting is too frustrating, the meditation too unmanageable, your Spirit too distant. But at the v...
“Miserable offenders, spare thou them,” the congregation intoned as I bowed my head. The Church I usually feel so uplifted by felt transformed into a place of ...
But this was very displeasing to Jonah, and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own cou...
On Ash Wednesday, many churches read from the Gospel Jesus’s warning against hypocrisy: "Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to sta...
