Comments(1) From the morning psalm in today’s daily office readings: “Hear my teaching, O my people; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.”
From the evening psalm for today: “Your way was in the sea, and your paths in the great waters, yet your footsteps were not seen.”
Comments(2) From the daily office readings for today: “…[Jesus] said to him, ‘Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy he has shown you.’ And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.”
Comments(2) From the evening psalm for today’s office: “He shall convert my soul, and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness for his Name’s sake.”
Comments(1) From the morning psalm for today: “I will praise the Name of God in song; I will proclaim his greatness with thanksgiving.”
This blog’s patron is Blessed George Herbert, whose feast day is celebrated today. From the readings for this feast: “I exhort the elders among you to tend the flock of God that is in your charge, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion but willingly, as God would have you do it– not for sordid gain but eagerly.”
Comments(2) From the daily office readings for today: “The father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, ‘Your son will live.’ So he himself believed, along with his whole household.”
From the Eucharistic lections for the Feast of St. Matthias: “So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us– one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection.”
From the daily office readings for today: “Other seed fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.”
From the daily office readings for today: “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”
From the daily office readings for today: “Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
From the readings for the daily office: “So I [Moses] turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark that I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me.”
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