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  • Daily Prayer

    Posted July 24, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Lord Jesus,   We long for the day when Jesus is worshiped in all nations...   Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the nations. Who will not fear you, Lo...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 24, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Revelation 15:3-4 NIV and sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the nations. Who will not fear you, Lord, and bring glory to you...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 23, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Holy Spirit: His Seed Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. 1 John 3:9   The Holy Spirit is the Seed who was planted in your life when you were born again. It was His prese...

  • Daily Prayer

    Posted July 23, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father God,   Thank You for sending Jesus to save me from my sins and from my unrighteousness.   Lord Jesus, teach me about Your Kingdom and how I can live with you, experiencing your Kingdom here, today and for each day to...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 23, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

  • Sapphries

    Posted July 22, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Priest's Privilege Friday, July 22, 2022   In the Old Covenant, those who ministered to God were called the kohanim, the priests. They served God and were given access to the Holy Place behind the veil. The priests had to dwell in the secret place. Those who minister to God...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 22, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Jesus: Prince and Savior Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. Acts 5:31   After being released from prison, Peter told the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the Prince of salvation ...

  • Daily Prayer

    Posted July 22, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father God,   Your Word tells me that You have given me Your divine power to live my life as You created me to...   His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him who ca...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 22, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day 2 Peter 1:3-4 NIV His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them yo...

  • Sapphries

    Posted July 21, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Hitler's Father Thursday, July 21, 2022   The Bible speaks of Isaac blessing Jacob, and Jacob blessing his sons. Generations of fathers bless their children. The father is supposed to bless his children, and children are to receive the blessing. The greatest evil the world has ...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 21, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Jesus: The Priest of the Most High God (El Elyon) For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him. Hebrews 7:1   Melchizedek was a priest of the Most High God; and b...

  • Daily Prayer

    Posted July 21, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear God,   You are the Creator and Ruler of all.   You are the Most High God, El Elyon, the God who rules Heaven and Earth.   I lift You up and praise You for who You are, for Your great works and for Your great ...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 21, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Hebrews 7:1 NKJV For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him

  • Sapphries

    Posted July 20, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Eretz Secret Wednesday, July 20, 2022   In Hebrew the word Eretz means world, land or the earth; specifically, the promised land--Israel. In the sermon on the Mount, Messiah said, "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth." Yeshua was quoting a Psalm, "The meek...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 20, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Father: God and Father With it [the tongue] we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. James 3:9   The Lord is both your God and Father. He’s not just your God, who is powerful and far off. But H...

  • Daily Prayer

    Posted July 20, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father God,   Today I recall the children's song...   I am a promise, I am a possibility I am a promise with a capital “P,” I am a great big bundle of potentiality And I am learning to hear God&rs...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 20, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day James 3:9 NKJV With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.

  • Sapphries

    Posted July 19, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Revolutionary Eyes Tuesday, July 19, 2022   Much of world history happens through revolutionaries. They never see things or accept things as they are. They see the status quo as temporary; something will change. They see defeats as temporary setbacks, their dreams, already a re...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 19, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Jesus: Our Peace For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation. Ephesians 2:14   Most people think that peace is the cessation of war or that peace is doing something enjoyable, such as sitting by a lake or...

  • Daily Prayer

    Posted July 19, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Lord Jesus,   Thank You for being my Peace.   Thank You for bringing Your peace to my heart and to my mind today.   Please help me to live in your peace...   Be anxious for nothing, but i...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 19, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Philippians 4:6-7 NKJV Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through...

  • Sapphries

    Posted July 18, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Anti-Semite who Created a Jewish Holiday Monday, July 18, 2022   Purim is one of the most joyous and favorite of holidays for the Jewish people. Do you know who came up with this most joyous and Jewish of holidays? Haman - the enemy of the Jewish people. He came up with the...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 18, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Jesus: Potentate He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords. 1 Timothy 6:15   There are different kinds of power that Jesus has as a leader. A judge has judicial power, because the entire police...

  • Daily Prayer

    Posted July 18, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Lord God,   So often I hear what people are going through and I feel sad and sorry for them.   And when I’m going through tough times, I often become upset about it.   But when I look at the story Josep...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 18, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Genesis 50:20 NKJV But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 17, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Trinity: The Judge of All the Earth Far be it from You (God) to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not their Judge of all the earth do right? Genesis 18:25 ...

  • Daily Prayer

    Posted July 17, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear God,   Please search me, know me and lead me...   Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my anxieties, And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm ...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 17, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Psalms 139:23-24 NKJV Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.   Philippians 4:6-7 NKJV Be anxious for nothing, but in everyt...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 16, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Jesus: Fullers' Soap But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap. Malachi 3:2   Jesus is likened to Fullers' Soap, which was the best cleansing and white...

  • Daily Prayer

    Posted July 16, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father God,   This is the day that You have made and I will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24   May I see all the good that You accomplish around me all day long.   I do not want to focus on anything n...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 16, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Philippians 4:8 NKJV Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is a...

  • Sapphries

    Posted July 15, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Dimensions of the Wind Friday, July 15, 2022   When I was in junior high, I took mechanical drawing. You had to draw the same object from three different views to obtain three different dimensions - height, width and depth. When you read the Book of Exodus, the instructions...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 15, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Jesus: He Who Fills All in All Which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. Ephesians 1:23   Jesus is He Who Fills All in All. Think of all you want to do for God; you can do it if you have faith to move mountains (1 Corinthians 13:2). Think of all you...

  • Daily Prayer

    Posted July 15, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Lord Jesus,   Please be near to me and guide me throughout this day.   I submit to You, I resist all evil and I want to draw near to you, I humbly ask you to draw near to me...   Therefore submit to God. ...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 15, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day James 4:8 NKJV Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

  • Gospel/Homily

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 12:1-8): Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees...

  • Lectionary

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Memorial of Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Lectionary: 393 Reading 1  IS 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8 When Hezekiah was mortally ill, the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came and said to him: “Thus says the LORD: Put your house in order, for ...

  • Spiritual Reading

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 15 July 2022 Saint Bonaventure, Bishop, Doctor  on Friday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Saint Bonaventure, Bishop, Doctor St Bonaventure at the Council of Lyon (c.1629) by Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664). Mus&...

  • Office of Readings

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 15 July 2022 Saint Bonaventure, Bishop, Doctor  on Friday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make h...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 15 July 2022 Saint Bonaventure, Bishop, Doctor  on Friday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, ma...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 15 July 2022 Friday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fat...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 15 July 2022 Friday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father an...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 15 July 2022 Friday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 15 July 2022 Saint Bonaventure, Bishop, Doctor  on Friday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, ...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 15 July 2022 Friday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Compline (Night Prayer)(today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and ...

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    Posted July 14, 2022 by jeri loew

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  • Sapphries

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Face in the Jewelry Thursday, July 14, 2022   I knew a saint of God, Sabina Wurmbrand, the wife of Richard Wurmbrand. They were Jewish believers and leaders of the underground church in Romania. In their last days, Sabina was in a hospital in Mexico. She shared a story with...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Holy Spirit: He But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. John 14:26   The Holy Spirit is a person. He is not like smoke, fog, a...

  • Daily Prayer

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father God,   I pray that as two people come together to join in holy marriage, that they will keep their covenant and their commitments, as Jesus taught...   Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 14, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Matthew 19:4-6 NKJV And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to ...

  • Lectionary

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Memorial of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin Lectionary: 392 Reading 1  IS 26:7-9, 12, 16-19 The way of the just is smooth; the path of the just you make level. Yes, for your way and your judgments, O LORD, we look to you; Your name and your title are the ...

  • Gospel/Homily

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 11:28-30): Jesus said: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek ...

  • Spiritual Reading

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 14 July 2022 Saint Kateri Tekakwitha  on Thursday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Saint Kateri Tekakwitha From the treatise "On the Mysteries" by St Ambrose, bishopInstruction on the post-baptismal rites After this, y...

  • Office of Readings

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 14 July 2022 Saint Kateri Tekakwitha  on Thursday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste t...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 14 July 2022 Saint Kateri Tekakwitha  on Thursday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make has...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 14 July 2022 Thursday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 14 July 2022 Thursday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fathe...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 14 July 2022 Thursday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fa...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 14 July 2022 Saint Kateri Tekakwitha  on Thursday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make h...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 14 July 2022 Thursday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Compline (Night Prayer)(today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father ...

  • Meditaton

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Today's Meditation “My great God, you know all that is in the universe, because you yourself have made it. It is the very work of your hands. You are omniscient, because you are omnicreative. You know each part, however minute, as perfectly as you know the whole. You know mind as perfectly as...

  • Sapphries

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Ministry of The Prisoner Wednesday, July 13, 2022   A believer, whose heart was to preach the gospel, was put in prison. If he knew he would reach far more people, and win far more souls to God inside the jail than outside, it would be hard for him to believe. He was more u...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Jesus: He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying… "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!" Matthew 21:9   On Palm Sunday Jesus rode victorious into Jerusalem on a donkey. Th...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 13, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day Acts 17:28 NKJV for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

  • Lectionary

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 391 Reading 1  IS 10:5-7, 13B-16 Thus says the LORD: Woe to Assyria! My rod in anger, my staff in wrath. Against an impious nation I send him, and against a people under my wrath I order him To...

  • Gospel/Homily

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 11:25-27): At that time Jesus exclaimed: “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wis...

  • Spiritual Reading

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 13 July 2022 Wednesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Henry  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Wednesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time From the treatise "On the Mysteries" by St Ambrose, bishopWater does not sanctify without the Holy Spi...

  • Office of Readings

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 13 July 2022 Wednesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Henry  Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to he...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 13 July 2022 Wednesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Henry  Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste t...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 13 July 2022 Wednesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to t...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 13 July 2022 Wednesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fat...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 13 July 2022 Wednesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the ...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 13 July 2022 Wednesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Henry  Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 13 July 2022 Wednesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Compline (Night Prayer)(today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fathe...

  • Sapphries

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Tombs and Snakes Tuesday, July 12, 2022   The Bible speaks of the enemy as a snake. So I did some research on snakes and learned that a key to avoiding a snake bite is to avoid snake habitats, places like caves or open tombs. Now I've made it a policy to avoid open tombs. Do yo...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Jesus: Greater Than Solomon The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and indeed, a greater than Solomon is here. Matthew 12:42   Sol...

  • Daily Prayer

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Lord God,   I don't want to strive against You with my own self-efforts.   I want to totally rely on You.   Please increase my faith.   Please forgive my unbelief.   James writes...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 12, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day James 1:5 NKJV If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

  • Lectionary

    Posted July 11, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 390 Reading 1  IS 7:1-9 In the days of Ahaz, king of Judah, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, king of Israel, son of Remaliah, went up to attack Jerusalem, but they we...

  • Gospel/Homily

    Posted July 11, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 11:20-24): Jesus began to reproach the towns where most of his mighty deeds had been done, since they had not repented. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you,...

  • Spiritual Reading

    Posted July 11, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 12 July 2022 Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time From the treatise "On the Mysteries" by St Ambrose, bishopThe many prefigurations of baptism in Scripture Listen to the Apostle&...

  • Office of Readings

    Posted July 11, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 12 July 2022 Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time  Office of Readings Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fat...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 11, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 12 July 2022 Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time  Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 11, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 12 July 2022 Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the F...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 11, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 12 July 2022 Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Midday Prayer (Sext) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father ...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 11, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 12 July 2022 Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Afternoon Prayer (None) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Fath...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 11, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 12 July 2022 Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time  Vespers (Evening Prayer) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to t...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 11, 2022 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 12 July 2022 Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Compline (Night Prayer)(today) The Compline after First or Second Vespers of a Sunday may be substituted for the Compline of a weekday. ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father an...

  • Sapphries

    Posted July 11, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Dark Witness Monday, July 11, 2022   For 2,000 years the great stain of anti-Semitism has caused Jewish people to be hated, persecuted, plundered, vilified, denigrated, wounded, killed, and massacred. The greatest evil the world has ever known, namely Adolf Hitler and the T...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 11, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Father: Our Father in Heaven Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven... Matthew 6:8-9   Not only were you born of an earthly father, but also you have a Father in Heaven. Whe...

  • Daily Prayer

    Posted July 11, 2022 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Father in Heaven,   Today, I am praying for people in this world who do not have earthly fathers.   They may have never known their father, or their father was taken from them, or he may have left them at some point, or a m...