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Weekdays of Advent: December 24th listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 1:67-79): Zechariah his father, filled with the Holy Spirit, prophesied, saying: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; for he has come to his people and set them fr...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Weekdays of Advent: December 24th listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 1:67-79): Zechariah his father, filled with the Holy Spirit, prophesied, saying: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; for he has come to his people and set them fr...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 24 December 2021 24 December Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 24 December From a sermon by Saint AugustineTruth has arisen from the earth and justice has looked down from heaven Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. Awake, you who slee...
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Friday 24 December 2021 24 December 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 Father and to the Son an...
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Friday 24 December 2021 24 December 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 Father and to the So...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 24 December 2021 24 December 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 Father and to the Son ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 24 December 2021 24 December 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 and to the Son and to...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 24 December 2021 24 December 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 and to the Son and...
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Friday 24 December 2021 24 December (First Vespers of tomorrow, Christmas Day) 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 t...
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Friday 24 December 2021 24 December Compline (Night Prayer) ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.Amen. Alleluia. ________...
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The activity of my satanism that often times I refer to just to call it what it is, devil worship, is very zen orientated in some aspects. You see within a certain context the aspect of spiritual worship consists of imagery of monasteries and monks and ascetic life styles. In many ways within the dr...
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Thursday of the Fourth Week of Advent Lectionary: 199 Reading I Mal 3:1-4, 23-24 Thus says the Lord GOD: Lo, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me; And suddenly there will come to the temple &...
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Weekdays of Advent: December 23th listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 1:57-66): When the time arrived for Elizabeth to have her child she gave birth to a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy toward her...
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Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December (optional commemoration of Saint John of Kęty, Priest) Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 23 December From a treatise by St Hippolytus against the Noetic heresyThe hidden sacrament is revealed There is, brethren, one G...
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Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December (optional commemoration of Saint John of Kęty, Priest) 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 ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December (optional commemoration of Saint John of Kęty, Priest) 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, m...
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Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December 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 Father and to the So...
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Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December 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 and to the Son and ...
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Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December 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 and to the Son a...
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Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December (optional commemoration of Saint John of Kęty, Priest) 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,...
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Thursday 23 December 2021 23 December 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 to the Son and t...
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How We Face Temptation …how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? – Genesis 39:9 Joseph is here speaking to his boss’s wife, who is trying to seduce him to commit adultery with her. It would have been easy for him to give in. His family is far away; his life ...
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It is important always no matter what faith you practice, to admire and have a gratitude for the simple things in life. There is something about living simply that brings us to new levels of awareness for the spiritual around us. To sit and listen to robins and sparrows chirp and admire the squirrel...
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Daily Verse "Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful."–James 5:16
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Today's Meditation “Mary remained with the donkey at the very entrance of the street while Joseph sought a lodging in the nearest houses—in vain, for Bethlehem was full of strangers, all running from place to place. Joseph returned to Mary, saying that as no shelter was to be found ther...
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Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Advent Lectionary: 198 Reading I 1 Sm 1:24-28 In those days, Hannah brought Samuel with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and presented him at the temple of the LORD in Shiloh. A...
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Weekdays of Advent: December 22nd listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 1:46-56): Mary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior. For he has looked upon his lowly servant. From this day all gen...
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Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 22 December From a commentary by the Venerable Bede on St Luke's GospelThe Magnificat And Mary said: My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour...
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Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December 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 Father and to the Son...
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Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December 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 Father and to the...
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Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December 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 Father and to the S...
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Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December 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 and to the Son and...
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Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December 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 and to the Son ...
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Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December 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 the Father and to t...
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Wednesday 22 December 2021 22 December 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 to the Son and ...
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My goal is not to be some big shot satanist who is famous for some type of activity. My goal is not to fraud people with false claims and mega faith statements to cause jeapordy in someone's life. My goal is not to cause harm overall actually. My goal is to practically endeavor myself with the job o...
Posted by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you– Isaiah 35:4 This is a heartening exhortation, but all the more so because it comes from God himself. God says, “I am coming; I will save ...
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Daily Verse "Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do."–Colossi...
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Today's Meditation “An excellent method of preserving interior silence is to keep exterior silence. . . even in the world, each one of us can make his own solitude, a boundary beyond which nothing can force its way unperceived. It is not noise in itself that is the diffi...
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Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent Lectionary: 197 Reading I Sg 2:8-14 Hark! my lover–here he comes springing across the mountains, leaping across the hills....
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Weekdays of Advent: December 21st listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 1:39-45): Mary set out in those days and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Eliza...
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Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December (optional commemoration of Saint Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor) Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 21 December From a commentary by St Ambrose on St Luke's GospelThe Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary The angel Gabr...
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Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December (optional commemoration of Saint Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor) 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 Lo...
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Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December (optional commemoration of Saint Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor) 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. ...
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Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December 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 Father and to the Son...
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Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December 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 and to the Son and t...
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Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December 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 and to the Son an...
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Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December (optional commemoration of Saint Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor) 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...
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Tuesday 21 December 2021 21 December 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 to the Son and to...
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He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed– Proverbs 13:20 There is an interesting insight within this proverb that gives hope, as well as warning. Notice the language of purposeful intimacy that is used in both the positive and contrastin...
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When we speak with a commanding tone and move the forces to appear before us commanding our lives to change we are usually using a form of marked formal speech. We instigate words sometimes like thine and thy rather than you or yours and we speak with a sense of rhythm like it's almost poetry. This ...
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Daily Verse "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread ...
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Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent Lectionary: 196 Reading I Is 7:10-14 The LORD spoke to Ahaz: Ask for a sign from the Lord, your God; let it be deep as the nether world, or high as the sky! But Ahaz answered, “I w...
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Weekdays of Advent: December 20th listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 1:26-38): In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, a...
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Monday 20 December 2021 20 December Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 20 December From a sermon of St Bernard of ClairvauxThe whole world awaits Mary's reply You have heard, O Virgin, that you will conceive and bear a son; you have heard that it will not ...
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Monday 20 December 2021 20 December 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 Father and to the Son an...
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Monday 20 December 2021 20 December 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 Father and to the So...
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Monday 20 December 2021 20 December 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 Father and to the Son ...
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Monday 20 December 2021 20 December 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 and to the Son and to...
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Monday 20 December 2021 20 December 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 and to the Son and...
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Monday 20 December 2021 20 December 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 the Father and to the ...
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Monday 20 December 2021 20 December 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 to the Son and to ...
Posted by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy– James 5:11 The end, or purpose, of the Lord for his people is full of pity and tenderness. When we feel deepl...
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Daily Verse "The end of all things is at hand. Therefore, be serious and sober for prayers. Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaining."–1 Peter 4:7-9
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Fourth Sunday of Advent Lectionary: 12 Reading I Mi 5:1-4a Thus says the LORD: You, Bethlehem-Ephrathah too small to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come...
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Fourth Sunday of Advent (C) listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Lk 1:39-45): During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabe...
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Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 4th Sunday of Advent From the treatise "Against the Heresies" by St IrenaeusThe operation of the redeeming Incarnation God is man’s glory. Man is the vessel which receive...
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Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent 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 Father and to t...
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Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent 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 Father and ...
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Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent 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 Father and to...
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Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent 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 and to the S...
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Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent 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 and to th...
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Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent 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 the Father an...
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Sunday 19 December 2021 4th Sunday of Advent Compline (Night Prayer) ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.Amen. Alleluia. ...
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Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them– Matthew 18:20 We tend to place too much emphasis on crowds, on statistics, on the size of a particular group or movement. We, every one of us, are too easily influenced by the “mob mentality&rd...
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Daily Verse "But no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. This need not be so, my brothers."–J...
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Today's Meditation “It is, then, in following the will of God, in spite of all the difficulties that may arise both from within and from without, in the constant offering of ourselves to God as the creatures of His hand to do and to be what He would have us, in the surrender of one thing afte...
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Saturday of the Third Week of Advent Lectionary: 194 Reading I Jer 23:5-8 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will raise up a righteous shoot to David; As king he shall reign...
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Weekdays of Advent: December 18th listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 1:18-24): Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with child throug...
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Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 18 December From the Letter to DiognetusGod showed his love through his Son No man has ever seen God or known him, but God has revealed himself to us through faith, by which alone it ...
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Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December 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 Father and to the Son ...
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Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December 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 Father and to the ...
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Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December 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 Father and to the So...
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Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December 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 and to the Son and ...
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Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December 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 and to the Son a...
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Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December (First Vespers of tomorrow, 4th Sunday of Advent) 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, mak...
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Saturday 18 December 2021 18 December Compline (Night Prayer) ________ INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.Amen. Alleluia. ______...
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You may notice that I repeat myself rather frequently within my posts and post similar topics on multiple levels. There is a reason for this. The main reason being that people don't know me in one single way about who I am or what I am like. The internet can be a powerful tool for anonymity in both ...
Posted by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.
Whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward– Mark 9:41 We often look for the big, splashy acts of service or devotion by which we can prove our love for God. But Jesus says even the smallest act of s...
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The Reformation Church Introduction In this paper, the aim is to summarize and respond with my thoughts. But, first, I will be discussing the history and developments of the Reformation while discussing the people who helped in the Reformation...
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One exciting part of my life is that, like tonight, I may be called (even during typing this post) to help my nephew in Baltimore, Maryland doing ministries for women who have been or are being raped and beaten. I pray for them while my nephew James listens. I spent most of my early years as a CNA...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Daily Verse "Let marriage be honored among all and the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the immoral and adulterers. Let your life be free from love of money but be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never forsake you or abandon you." Thus we may say with confid...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday of the Third Week of Advent Lectionary: 193 Reading I Gn 49:2, 8-10 Jacob called his sons and said to them: “Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob, listen to Israel, your father. ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Weekdays of Advent: December 17th listen Download View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 1:1-17): The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham became the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of ...
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Friday 17 December 2021 17 December Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 17 December From a letter of Pope St Leo the GreatThe mystery of our reconciliation with God To speak of our Lord, the son of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as true and perfect man is of no v...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 17 December 2021 17 December 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 Father and to the Son an...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 17 December 2021 17 December 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 Father and to the So...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 17 December 2021 17 December 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 Father and to the Son ...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 17 December 2021 17 December 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 and to the Son and to...
Posted by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.
Friday 17 December 2021 17 December 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 and to the Son and...