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  • Office of Readings

    Posted July 22, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 23 July 2021 Friday of week 16 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Bridget of Sweden, Religious  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,...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 22, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 23 July 2021 Friday of week 16 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Bridget of Sweden, Religious  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 L...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 22, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 23 July 2021 Friday of week 16 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 22, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 23 July 2021 Friday of week 16 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 22, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 23 July 2021 Friday of week 16 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 22, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 23 July 2021 Friday of week 16 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Bridget of Sweden, Religious  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...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 22, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Friday 23 July 2021 Friday of week 16 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...

  • Living In The World

    Posted July 22, 2021 by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.

    Society’s philosophies and values are everywhere—on radio and TV, in books and magazines, and in conversations at the workplace and corner coffee shop. Believers can’t avoid the pressures to be and think like everyone else. And yet the Bible calls us to live in our culture without ...

  • Sapphries

    Posted July 22, 2021 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Solitary Coal Thursday, July 22, 2021   A Sunday school teacher once noticed that one of his students had been absent from class for a long time. So he visited his home, found him by the fireplace, and sat down beside him without a rebuke, without saying anything. Instead, ...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 22, 2021 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 Prayers

    Posted July 22, 2021 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, 2021 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness 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 you may partic...

  • Saint of the Day

    Posted July 22, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

      Saint of the Day St. Mary Magdalene St. Mary Magdalen (1st c.) was a friend and devoted follower of Jesus Christ. Formerly she had been a woman of ill repute out of whom Jesus exorcised seven demons. Mary Magdalene has a special place among the Lo...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 22, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

      Verse of the Day "Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for [someone] to devour. Resist him, steadfast in faith, knowing that your fellow believers throughout the world undergo the same sufferings. The God of all ...

  • Ephesians 3: 17-21

    Posted July 21, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith, and may charity be the root and foundation of your life.  Thus you will be able to grasp fully, with all the holy ones, the breadth and length and height and depth of Christ's love, and experience this love which surpasses all knowledge, so that yo...

  • Lectionary

    Posted July 21, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene Lectionary: 603 Reading I Sgs 3:1-4b The Bride says: On my bed at night I sought him whom my heart loves– I sought him but I did not find him. I will rise then and go about the city; in the streets and crossings I will seek ...

  • Gospel/Homily

    Posted July 21, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    July 22nd: Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene listen   download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Jn 20,1-2.11-18): On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. S...

  • Spiritual Reading

    Posted July 21, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 22 July 2021 Saint Mary Magdalen - Feast  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Saint Mary Magdalen "Martha and Mary Magdalene" (c.1598) by Caravaggio (1571-1610), Detroit Institute of Arts. From a homily on the Gospels by Gregory the Great, pope...

  • Office of Readings

    Posted July 21, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 22 July 2021 Saint Mary Magdalen - Feast  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 Fathe...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 21, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 22 July 2021 Saint Mary Magdalen - Feast  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 F...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 21, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 22 July 2021 Saint Mary Magdalen - Feast 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 21, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 22 July 2021 Saint Mary Magdalen - Feast 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 21, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 22 July 2021 Saint Mary Magdalen - Feast 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 21, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 22 July 2021 Saint Mary Magdalen - Feast  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...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 21, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Thursday 22 July 2021 Saint Mary Magdalen - Feast 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...

  • Sapphries

    Posted July 21, 2021 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Alone on the Roof Wednesday, July 21, 2021   Peter was staying at the house of Simon the Tanner and he went up on the roof to pray. So why did Peter go up on the roof to pray? He went up on the roof because he wanted to be alone with God. We often don't realize how important it...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 21, 2021 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 Prayers

    Posted July 21, 2021 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 greate...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 21, 2021 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day 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

  • Saving Grace

    Posted July 21, 2021 by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.

    Many people believe that piling up good works makes them right with the Lord. Yet the only payment for sin that can satisfy divine justice is death (Rom. 6:23). This is why God sent His Son Jesus to die in our place. Jesus’ death satisfied God’s justice and brought us ...   •...

  • Saint of the Day

    Posted July 21, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

      Saint of the Day St. Victor of Marseilles St. Victor of Marseilles (d. 290 A.D.) was a Christian soldier serving in the Roman imperial army in Marseilles, France. Christianity was thriving there, until Emperor Maximian arrived with the intention of put...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 21, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

      Verse of the Day "With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal; with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless; with the pure thou dost show thyself pure; and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse. For thou dost deliver a humble people; but the haugh...

  • Lectionary

    Posted July 20, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 397 Reading I Ex 16:1-5, 9-15 The children of Israel set out from Elim,  and came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their de...

  • Spiritual Reading

    Posted July 20, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 21 July 2021 Wednesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Laurence of Brindisi, Priest, Doctor  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Wednesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time From "The Imitation of Christ"The kingdom of God is the peace and joy o...

  • Office of Readings

    Posted July 20, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 21 July 2021 Wednesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Laurence of Brindisi, 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 t...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 20, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 21 July 2021 Wednesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Laurence of Brindisi, 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 t...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 20, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 21 July 2021 Wednesday of week 16 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 20, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 21 July 2021 Wednesday of week 16 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 20, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 21 July 2021 Wednesday of week 16 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 20, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 21 July 2021 Wednesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Laurence of Brindisi, 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...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 20, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Wednesday 21 July 2021 Wednesday of week 16 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 Fath...

  • His Wrath And Judgment

    Posted July 20, 2021 by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.

    Followers of Christ know the importance of being saved, but the world sees no need for rescue. The truth is that those who don’t have a personal relationship with God the Father through His Son Jesus are ... • Spiritually dead. Spiritual death first occurred in the garden of Eden. Disobedience se...

  • Sapphries

    Posted July 20, 2021 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    The Heart & the Day Tuesday, July 20, 2021   How's your day going? You probably think that if things are going bad you're having a bad day and if things are going good, it's a good day. But the Bible says something completely different. And it can change the way you live your l...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 20, 2021 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 Prayers

    Posted July 20, 2021 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, 2021 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day 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

  • Saint of the Day

    Posted July 20, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

      Saint of the Day St. Margaret of Antioch St. Margaret (289-304 A.D.) was born in Antioch, the daughter of a pagan priest. Her mother died when she was an infant, and she was raised by a Christian nurse who baptized her and gave her a Christian educa...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 20, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

      Verse of the Day "For the grace of God has appeared, saving all and training us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live temperately, justly, and devoutly in this age, as we await the blessed hope, the appearance of the glory of the great God and of our s...

  • Meditation

    Posted July 20, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

      Meditation of the Day "Finally—and this is perhaps the most difficult aspect of what concerns the practice of conformity to the will of God—we should desire virtue itself and the degrees of grace only insofar as God wishes to give them, and not desire more....

  • Growing to Know & Love the Hily Spirit

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Growing to Know & Love the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit wants to give us intimacy with Himself, impart­ing His own strength to us and making our lives new. But how do we draw near so that the Holy Spirit may work these miracles of love in and for us? In his wonderful encyclical on the Ho...

  • Lectionary

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 396 Reading I Ex 14:21—15:1 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD swept the sea with a strong east wind throughout the night and so turned it into dry land. When the water was t...

  • Gospel/Homily

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 12,46-50): While Jesus was still talking to the people, his mother and his brothers wanted to speak to him and they waited outside. So someone said to him, &laq...

  • Spiritual Reading

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 20 July 2021 Tuesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Apollinaris, Bishop, Martyr  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...

  • Office of Readings

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 20 July 2021 Tuesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Apollinaris, Bishop, Martyr  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...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 20 July 2021 Tuesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Apollinaris, Bishop, Martyr  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 ...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 20 July 2021 Tuesday of week 16 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 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 20 July 2021 Tuesday of week 16 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 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 20 July 2021 Tuesday of week 16 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 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 20 July 2021 Tuesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Apollinaris, Bishop, Martyr  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. ...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Tuesday 20 July 2021 Tuesday of week 16 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 a...

  • Roma Drakt

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Chelsey Mckenn

    fotballdrakter http://mark.fidosnosework.com/Serie-A/str-Roma-Hjemmedrakt-568295961     vinner med sekunder igjen etter   Chelsea etter at Sergio Aguero fluffet en straff da Chelsea Roma Drakt, Atletico Madrid Drakt etter at raheem sterling ga fotballdrakter design igje...

  • Sapphries

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    God's Illegal Activities Monday, July 19, 2021   The Supreme Court ruled that kindergarten children can no longer verbalize a prayer of thanksgiving as they partake of their morning snack. The words that the Supreme Court ruled contraband is this: "We thank you for the flowers ...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 19, 2021 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 Prayers

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear Lord God,   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 in everything by prayer and supplication, wit...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day 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 ...

  • Things That May Hinder Our Prayers

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.

    A common hindrance to our prayer life is a lack of perseverance. Many Christians feel that once they’ve prayed for something, the answer should immediately be forthcoming. But God is not a bellhop, waiting to give us what we want the moment we petition Him. Imagine if the Lord instantly provid...

  • Saint of the Day

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

      Saint of the Day St. Macrina the Younger St. Macrina the Younger (d. 380 A.D.) was born in Cappadocia to a family of saints. Her mother was St. Emelia, and her father was St. Basil the Elder. Her grandmother was St. Macrina the Elder, after whom she wa...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

      Verse of the Day "I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13:34-35  

  • Meditation

    Posted July 19, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

      Meditation of the Day "I will first, dearest daughter, speak to thee of the dignity of priests, having placed them where they are through My goodness, over and above the general love which I have had to My creatures, creating you in My image and likeness and re-creatin...

  • Lectionary

    Posted July 18, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 395 Reading I Ex 14:5-18 When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants changed their minds about them. They exclaimed, “What have we done! Why, we ha...

  • Gospel/Homily

    Posted July 18, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mt 12,38-42): Some teachers of the Law and some Pharisees spoke up, «Teacher, we want to see a sign from you». Jesus answered them, «An evil and u...

  • Spiritual Reading

    Posted July 18, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Monday 19 July 2021 Monday of week 16 in Ordinary Time  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Monday of week 16 in Ordinary Time From St Ignatius of Antioch's letter to the MagnesiansUnited in one prayer and one hope, in joy and holiness Since I have met ...

  • Office of Readings

    Posted July 18, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Monday 19 July 2021 Monday of week 16 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 Fathe...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 18, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Monday 19 July 2021 Monday of week 16 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 F...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 18, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Monday 19 July 2021 Monday of week 16 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 18, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Monday 19 July 2021 Monday of week 16 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 18, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Monday 19 July 2021 Monday of week 16 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 18, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Monday 19 July 2021 Monday of week 16 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 the...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 18, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Monday 19 July 2021 Monday of week 16 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...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 18, 2021 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 Prayers

    Posted July 18, 2021 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, 2021 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Verse of the Day 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. Genesis 50:20

  • Bible Reflections

    Posted July 18, 2021 by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.

    The Bible gives clear rules for some situations, but for others, we may not know how to proceed. Perhaps you’re unsure whether to look for a new job or pursue a certain friendship, or maybe you can’t tell if a desire is selfish or good.   In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said to ...

  • SUNDAY GREETINGS - The ecological EDEN PROJECT - A REQUEST

    Posted July 18, 2021 by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany

      Dear Friends,   connected with my greetings, I would also like to draw your attention to an interesting project in England.   Since early childhood I have been interested in the wonders and diversities of nature, which has always led me to observations, "experiments" and "ex...

  • Saint of the Day

    Posted July 18, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

      Saint of the Day St. Camillus St. Camillus de Lellis (1550–1614) was a wild, undisciplined youth who became a battle-hardened soldier with a violent temper and a gambling addiction. His bad behavior, combined with a persistent war wound in his le...

  • Verse of the Day

    Posted July 18, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

      Verse of the Day "Be strong and of good courage, do not fear or be in dread of them: for it is the Lord your God who goes with you; he will not fail you or forsake you." Deuteronomy 31:6  

  • Meditation

    Posted July 18, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

      Meditation of the Day "Although our Divine Redeemer was the Lord and Master of all the riches of Heaven and earth, He willed nevertheless to become poor in this world that through His example we might become rich. He wished to induce us to love poverty as He did, for p...

  • Lectionary

    Posted July 17, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 107 Reading I Jer 23:1-6 Woe to the shepherds who mislead and scatter the flock of my pasture, says the LORD.  Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who shepherd my people: Yo...

  • Gospel/Homily

    Posted July 17, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) listen   Download   View 1st Reading and Psalm Gospel text (Mk 6,30-34): The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and re...

  • Spiritual Reading

    Posted July 17, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Sunday 18 July 2021 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time The beginning of St Ignatius of Antioch's letter to the MagnesiansWe should be Christians in deed, as well as in name Ignatius, also calle...

  • Office of Readings

    Posted July 17, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Sunday 18 July 2021 16th Sunday 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 Father and ...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 17, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Sunday 18 July 2021 16th Sunday 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 Father ...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 17, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Sunday 18 July 2021 16th Sunday 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 Father an...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 17, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Sunday 18 July 2021 16th Sunday 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 and to t...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 17, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Sunday 18 July 2021 16th Sunday 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 and t...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 17, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Sunday 18 July 2021 16th Sunday 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 the Fathe...

  • Liturgy of the Hours

    Posted July 17, 2021 by Arch Bishop Micheal Ralph Vendegna S.O.S.M.A.

    Sunday 18 July 2021 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time 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. Allelu...

  • Wavering Faith

    Posted July 17, 2021 by Pastor John R. Harvey D.D.

    God has called believers to walk by faith, trusting Him and His Word in every situation. But sometimes, like the people in today’s passage, we start to doubt the Lord and His ability to do what He has said. So let’s learn from the Israelites who suffered 40 years of wandering in the wild...

  • Coffee Time with Jesus

    Posted July 17, 2021 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 Prayers

    Posted July 17, 2021 by Pastor Charles Stilwell ULCM

    Lighthouse Ministries Daily Prayer Dear God,   Please Search me and Know 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 139:23-2...