"Never forget your promises to me your servant, for they are my only hope. They give me strength in all my troubles; how they refresh a...

“Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see the sky opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”  (John 1: 51). Th...

"There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens." (Ecclesiastes 3: 1). Time in the Scr...

"Who, then, is this I hear such things about?”  (Luke 9: 9). This is the troubled conscience of King Herod who beheaded John the Bapti...

"Every word of God is tested; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him."  Proverbs 30: 5). How much do you trust the word ...

“Your mother and your brothers are standing outside and they wish to see you.”  Jesus said to them in reply, “My mother and my brothers are ...

 “No one who lights a lamp conceals it with a vessel or sets it under a bed; rather, he places it on a lampstand so that those who enter may...

“The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death he will rise.”  (Mark 9: 31). "hand...

"The seed is the word of God."  (Luke 8: 11). We are the soil. The Parable of the Sower is one of the best known of Jesus' p...

"As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and ...

“Your sins are forgiven.....Go in peace.”  (Luke 7: 48, 50). These are wonderful words of mercy to the sinful woman who bathed the feet of J...

"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."  (1 Corinthians 13: 7). If a newly married co...

“Young man, I tell you, arise!” (Luke 7: 14). At this command of Jesus, the dead man, the son of the widow of Nain sat up. Jesus was moved ...

"Say the word and let my servant be healed."  (Luke 7: 7). The encounter of Jesus with the Roman Centurion teaches us two lessons...

"And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter said to him in reply, “You are the Messiah.”  (Mark 8: 29). Caesarea Philipp...

"When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the ...

"Make a seraph and mount it on a pole, and everyone who has been bitten will look at it and recover." (Numbers 21: 8). Friday, Se...

"Be merciful, just as [also] your Father is merciful."  (Luke 6:  36). Mercy is the preeminent attribute of God.  In the Merchant...

“Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours."  (Luke 6: 20). St Luke gives his version of the Beatitudes in Luke 6:...

"How can any one of you with a case against another dare to bring it to the unjust for judgment instead of to the holy ones?"  (1 ...