Conclusion of today’s Gospel: [Jesus said to Nathaniel] “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” John 1:51 In older translations Jacob has a vision in his sleep where he sees angels ascending and descending upon a ladder reaching…
Month: September 2021
What Moses Wanted, and more…
The LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Taking some of the spirit that was on Moses, the LORD bestowed it on the seventy elders; and as the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied. Now two men, one named Eldad and the other Medad, were not in the gathering but…
Marching orders for the day…
Verses 2 and 3 from Psalm 43: …you, O God, are my strength. Why do you keep me so far away? Why must I go about in mourning, with the enemy oppressing me? Send forth your light and your fidelity; they shall lead me on And bring me to your holy mountain,…
The holes in our pockets are not the problem…
First reading for Mass today, Haggai 1:1-8: On the first day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius, The word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai to the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, and to the high priest Joshua, son of Jehozadak: Thus says the LORD of…
Sunday’s Gospel with additional considerations
Gospel for Sunday, September 19: Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days…
Contentment? What does that take for me?
Excerpt from Friday’s first reading, 1 Timothy 6:2c-12 Teach and urge these things. Whoever teaches something different and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the religious teaching is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid disposition for arguments and verbal disputes. From these come envy, rivalry, insults, evil…
Losing Life, Gaining Life
Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter…