When I was a child, I always had to memorize the Threefold Missions of Jesus Christ – Priestly, Prophetic, Kingly. I pleasantly find out, in the Evening Prayer for this Easter Tuesday, that early on in Psalm 110 is one of the most important psalms, as early on, it had …
The famous Psalm 42 is in the Morning Prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours for this day: I thirst for God. Like the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my God. My soul is thirsting for God, the God of my …
There’s an Optional Memorial for Saint Casimir today. Saint Casimir, pray for us. Saint Casimir, son of the king of Poland, was born in 1458. He practiced the Christian virtues with special regard to chastity and kindness to the poor and was zealous in the faith, particularly in his …
They say nobody’s perfect. But that’s false. For being Roman Catholics, like the Psalm below, we get the chance to be one. Psalm 26 Give judgment for me, O Lord: for I walk the path of perfection. I trust in the Lord; I have not wavered. Examine me, Lord, and …
From the Second Reading of the Office of Readings of the Liturgy of the Hours: Jesus, The Good Shepherd “I am the good Shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know me in the same way that the Father knows me and I know my Father; for …
I think Psalm 18 is the sweetest… I love you, Lord Psalm 18 I love you, Lord, my strength, my rock, my fortress, my savior. My God is the rock where I take refuge; my shield, my mighty help, my stronghold. The Lord is worthy of all praise; when …
This is the sad truth about Truth, like as expressed in the Liturgy of the Hours today: Office of Readings Psalm 12 Help, O Lord, for good men have vanished: truth has gone from the sons of men. Falsehood they speak one to another, with lying lips, with a false …
There’s a similarity between Psalm 7 of Midday Prayer and Psalm 86 of Night Prayer, speaking of God as ‘slow to anger’. God is the shield that protects me, who saves the upright of heart. God is a just judge slow to anger; but he threatens the wicked every day, …
The Second Reading in the Office of Readings for this day is from a homily of Saint John Chrysostom, and it completely defines what prayer is, which is essential to know for us to meditate on our private prayers like the Rosary and other devotions, and to the public prayers …
Now, or tonight, is the ‘Chinese New Year’ and Chinatowns in different parts of the world, or those people trying to be ‘Chinese’ so they can partake a share from their ‘luck’, are very much alive, not sleeping, dying to follow what the Feng Shui says, and having a feast …
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